The Sonnay castle was erected on the territory of the commune Cravant-les-Coteaux, Indre-et-Loire.
history.
Sonnay Castle is an ancient fief of Roche-Clermault "at liege fealty and a stallion service," reported from the year 1268 as belonging to a certain Pierre de rang, Knight . It is found in 1440 in the hands of Geoffrey Taveau, Mortemer Baron, who sold it in 1441 to a man named William Ballan. And September 3, 1446, a chapel built in 1372 is devoted to Sonnay under the patronage of Saint Catherine (of Alexandria), Jean Bernard, archbishop of Tours.
But December 13, 1449, King Charles VII confiscated the land of Sonnay to give to his first chamberlain, named William Gouffier, also Baron Maulevrier and Governor of Touraine. The Land and its fee then pass to the daughter of that William Gouffier, Madeleine, 16 May 1481, married Rene Roy, chamberlain of King Louis XI. It is the dowry of the girl. The feud then remains in the King family until May 3, 1591. It is then sold by the Francis Roy and his wife Renee of Britain, Antoine de la Barre, lord of angles and his wife Helen of Razilly. The earth is then passed in 1629 to Rene de la Barre, then in 1680 to Claude de la Barre.
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November 10, 1770, the fief and land Sonnay are again sold by the heirs of the family of the bar. Last price £ 10,000, is awarded to all 32,150 books from Jacques-Alexandre Becquet du Vivier, Squire, Lieutenant of the marshals of France Montpellier, counselor-Rapporteur of the point of honor to the Bailiwick, and leaves town of Chinon in 1780, appearing in 1789 in the assembly of the nobles of Anjou and Saumur country. Jacques-Alexandre Becquet du Vivier, ancestor of the current owners, acquires the rights of the Upper, Middle and Low Justice. Then, taking the name of spoiler Sonnay he married in 1775 to Cecilia Galichon Courchamps. From this union born offspring gathering names like Simonet de Singly, Pecard Taschereau of Pictières, Blouquier Trelane, Saint-Exupery, Churchill, Le Breton of Vannoise, de Foucaud ...
structure.
The Dovecote Sonnay of particular interest, since it is not only very old but also quite rare because of its importance. He participated in this historical heritage of the region.
The stud was right under the Ancien Regime, a feudal right value of privilege, the abolition of which intervened in 1789 with the Revolution. At that time, in effect, including custom-Tours-looking the right to raise a pigeon on his fief, as a right high-Justice. The Lord High Justicar who censive (land subject to royalty owed by tenants) could have dove on foot, with bearers (cavities for receiving the pigeons) to the ground floor, provided that the domain of their stronghold is composed of at least fifty acres of land; an acre for 50 acres of our present. The aviary was right, however, limited to two per acre bearers, and anybody would have built too many bearers without being able to prove the amount of land, was sentenced to destroy his loft at his expense. The lord of a fief of 50 acres and could be building a dovecote with 100 bearers.
The Dovecote of Sonnay has the distinction of being composed of some 2,250 bearers, thereby proving that the fee on which it was built with an area of 1,125 acres, or about 560 hectares today. This dove is one of the largest in the region, and can be traced back its construction in the 13th century.
Park, the castle and the buildings were almost completely reworked in the 19th century, like many other properties of Tours. Only today remain the East and its chapel, and the dovecote which alone has suffered, like a miracle, any building other than the test of time. If some say that his roof-shaped stone arch is collapsed, while others argue the contrary it is a rare example of Fuye still standing in the open. They have never been homeless. The walls and bearers also survived perfectly.
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