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Château de la Verrerie
Château de la Verrerie is a château in Oizon, Cher, France, historically associated with the Seigneurs d'Aubigny (the Stewart family) and later owners. The surviving building is a late medieval/early Renaissance country house set in parkland beside a pond and is listed as a historic monument.
Its prime
1525
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1525
What Château de la Verrerie looked like in its prime.
The château sits behind an expanse of lawn and a reflecting pond; its main mass is a rectangular corps de logis of pale limestone punctuated by a rounded corner tower. The roofline is complex, with steep slate hipped and conical roofs, several tall red-brick chimneys and a very slender needle-like spire rising from a smaller tower. A projecting gallery wing with paired pavilions and the principal entrance punctuates one façade; windows are regularly spaced rectangular mullioned openings. At its prime the building is fully roofed and complete.
Its story
The story of Château de la Verrerie.
La Verrerie stands at Oizon in the old province of Berry, on lands attached to the Seigneurie d'Aubigny-sur-Nère, which Charles VII granted in 1423 to Sir John Stewart of Darnley, a fourth cousin of James I of Scotland. For the Stewart Seigneurs d'Aubigny it was a demeure d'agrément, a secondary residence for leisure, some fourteen miles from their principal seat at the Château d'Aubigny.
When Charles Stewart, 3rd Duke of Richmond and 6th Duke of Lennox, died in 1672, the last male of the Stewarts of Aubigny, the estate escheated to the French crown under the terms of Charles VII's original grant. The following year, at Charles II of England's request, Louis XIV granted La Verrerie to Louise de Kérouaille, the English king's last mistress.
Her French title was heritable by her descendants sired by Charles II, who bore the surname Lennox. On her death in 1734 the estate passed to her grandson Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, of Goodwood House in Sussex, and the Lennox Dukes of Richmond kept La Verrerie until 1842, when the 5th Duke sold it.
Step inside
6 places to explore in 1525.
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Clans who held Château de la Verrerie.
The families that held Château de la Verrerie for a decade or more across its history, follow a name to its clan.
