Fortress of Cluis

ORIGINS:

Cluis is certainly an ancient Gallo-Roman village.

END X - EARLY XI CENTURY:

700 m north of the village, a motte castle is built mentioned by Aimoin (1004-1040) inhabited by the Cluys family.

1092: The châtellenie is divided between Eudes de Lignières who had Cluis-Dessus and the lords of Gargilesse, masters of the fortress of Cluis-Dessous.

XIIth CENTURY:

The fortress passes into the hands of the princes of Déols. These are the first Franco-British skirmishes: Aliénor d'Aquitaine divorces with Louis VII and remarries with Henri II Plantagenet. Ebbes de Déols remains faithful to his overlord but the king of France, dissatisfied, burns La Châtre. Ebbes II goes to safety in Cluis-Dessous.

XIII CENTURY:

The Chauvigny family reinforced and extended the square: a powerful chatelet was built. A franchise charter is granted to the inhabitants of Cluis-Dessous, before 1218.

XIV, XV CENTURIES:

The Hundred Years War ends in favor of the French and Guy II de Chauvigny fights alongside Duguesclin. He is knighted by his hand.

1422: Guy II dies in Cluis-Dessous, he certainly builds the house with more comfort and thus shows his power. His descendants regularly stay in the castle.

XVI, XVII CENTURIES:

Cluis-Dessous enters the possessions of the Bourbon-Montpensier family. The dukes collect the income of Cluis-Dessous and the fortress is abandoned.

Eighteenth century :

Sold to the Montaignacs in 1767, the fief includes 100 hamlets or smallholdings (in the parishes of Cluis-Dessus, Mouhers, Crozon, La Buxerette, Saint-Denis de Jouhet and others), as well as the forges of Cluis-Dessous and Crozon.

Twentieth century :

The town bought the castle in 1980, its consolidation and animation were entrusted to the ASSC.