page_title: Château d'Augerville
section_title: Early
hierarchical_section_title: Château d'Augerville / History / Early
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Bâtiments dans l'enceinte du château d'Augerville
context_page_description: The Château d'Augerville is a historic château, situated in the commune of Augerville-la-Rivière, Loiret, France. It is a monument historique, a national heritage site of France.
context_section_description: The site is first mentioned during the twelfth century as Augerville, then a hamlet, in a charter from 1119. From 1207 onwards, Augerville was a stronghold for Philippe d'Augerville and his son Louis. There they built a château fort flanked by a pigeonnier. Louis d'Augerville died in 1248 without an heir, so the estate went to brothers Pierre and Dreux de Beaumont.
  During the Hundred Years War, the son of Pierre de Beaumont, Jean de Beaumont, sided with the English. He was sentenced to death by the provost of Paris and was executed on September 6, 1367. His property was confiscated but later returned to his widow, Jeanne de Courtenay. She died without any children, so a nearby branch of the family took Augerville in 1403, in the person of another Jean de Beaumont. At his death, his brother Pierre de Beaumont inherited the castle but had to flee an English occupation. His lands were redistributed by the occupying English to French  supporters of Henry VI of England.
  The château fort was a ruin by the time it was purchased by Jacques Cœur, a merchant and major financier of King Charles VII, in 1452. Cœur had little time to enjoy the property, as he was put on trial for royal embezzlement and sentenced to exile, where he died in 1456.  All of his property was confiscated by the crown.
  Catherine de' Medici and her son, King Charles IX, stayed at the château in September 1562.  An asset inventory of the fiefdom of Augerville-la-Rivière, dated June 30, 1582, noted that the château fort was surrounded by walls and a moat, fed by the Essonne River. It had a garden, a courtyard, a barn, a theatre, and a pigeonnier.
  After another period of abandonment, the château was sold for taxes on October 22, 1637.  It went through another owner, who began to restore it as a country house in 1644, but found it to be too large a task.  It was bought in 1644 by Jean Perrault de Montevrault, who had the facades of the château and apartments restored and added two detached wings, a new pigeonnier, a new barn, and created a forecourt surrounded by estate buildings.
caption: The pigeonnier and other buildings on the grounds.
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