France · Partial ruin
Château de Largoët
Forteresse de Largoët
The Château de Largoët is a medieval fortress in Elven, Morbihan, notable for its tall 14th-century octagonal keep and surviving defensive structures. Built between the 13th and 15th centuries, it preserves a 15th-century gatehouse, a multi-storey round tower, curtain walls, dry moats and ancillary service structures. It is a classified historic monument and has undergone restoration since the 1970s.
Its prime
1476
Today
Partial ruin
As it stood in 1476
What Château de Largoët looked like in its prime.
A massive 14th-century octagonal keep rises about 45 m with five visible storeys and extremely thick masonry (6–10 m at the base), its polygonal silhouette dominating the site. Nearby stands a 15th-century gatehouse built against an older 13th-century block; a three-storey round tower with cannon openings capped by a later hexagonal structure; scattered lengths of curtain wall surrounding a dry moat and small lake; low stone remains of an ice house and the flagged entrance to a vast cellar.
Its story
The story of Château de Largoët.
A castle at Largoët is first mentioned in 1020, belonging to Derrien I, baron of Elven, but the present building was constructed between the 13th and 15th centuries. The manor became the property of the Malestroit family in the 13th century, and the houses of Blois and Montfort fought over it during the Breton War of Succession before it came to the Rieux family in the 15th century.
Between 1474 and 1476 Jean IV, lord of Rieux, protected Henry Tudor, Duke of Richmond, the future Henry VII of England, at Largoët; the room where he stayed sits on the sixth or seventh floor of the 14th-century octagonal keep. At 45 metres, with walls six to ten metres thick, it is one of the highest keeps in France.
Nicolas Fouquet bought the castle in 1656, and after his death it was sold to Michel de Trémeurec, in whose family it stayed. A 15th-century gatehouse, a round tower furnished as a hunting lodge in the 20th century, curtain walls and dried-up moats survive, and the towers have appeared in historical films including Lancelot du Lac and Chouans.
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8 places to explore in 1476.
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Clans who held Château de Largoët.
The families that held Château de Largoët for a decade or more across its history, follow a name to its clan.
Malestroit
The manor was the property of the Malestroit family from the 13th century.
Rieux
Held by the Rieux family from the 15th century; Jean IV de Rieux sheltered the future Henry VII here, 1474–76.
Trémeurec
Sold to Michel de Trémeurec after Nicolas Fouquet's death in the later 17th century, and stayed in his family.
