France · Partial ruin
Château de Robert-le-Diable
The Château de Robert-le-Diable (also called Château de Moulineaux) is a medieval feudal castle near Rouen in Seine-Maritime, France. Built in the 11th–12th centuries and altered in the following centuries, it stands on a hill dominating the River Seine and is classified as a monument historique.
First raised
1000
Its prime
1200
Today
Partial ruin
As it stood in 1200
The shape it held in its prime.
Standing on a rounded hill above the River Seine, the castle is dominated by a tall cylindrical stone keep with a machicolated parapet and narrow vertical arrow slits; it adjoins ruined curtain walls and an arched main entrance set into flint rubble masonry with lighter ashlar dressings around openings. At its prime the silhouette was a high circular donjon, continuous curtain, and enclosed inner ward, all faced in grey-brown rubble with pale stone quoins and window surrounds.
Its story
The story of Château de Robert-le-Diable.
The Château de Robert le Diable — more properly, though less commonly, the Château de Moulineaux — is a feudal castle from the time of the Dukes of Normandy, built during the 11th and 12th centuries on a hill dominating the Seine, its view extending over the whole Rouen region. The name comes from Robert the Devil, identified by some with Robert I, Duke of Normandy, father of William the Conqueror — though there is no evidence he was involved in its construction.
Richard the Lionheart is known to have stayed here. His brother King John destroyed the castle during his struggle with Philip II Augustus of France, who then rebuilt it; during the Hundred Years' War the people of Rouen pulled down the towers themselves to keep the castle out of English hands. Half ruined, it is today furnished with artefacts and reconstructed scenes of local history and medieval life, owned by the Rouen agglomeration and classified as a monument historique since 1935.
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