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The commune of Château-sur-Epte, in the French department of Eure, is home to the abandoned Châteauneuf-sur-Epte castle. King William Rufus of England started construction in 1097 to fortify the border along the Epte River. The Duchy of Normandy and the Kingdom of France shared a border with the location of the castle. During the Hundred Years War and in the 12th century, it was strengthened once again by the Plantagenets. William Rufus, King of England, founded the fortress in the latter part of the eleventh century. It was built of limestone. Louis VI of France besieged it in 1119. Henry II of England strengthened and renovated it in the twelfth century. Other projects were completed in the fourteenth century. John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, took it in 1437. The importance of the castle waned in the sixteenth century, and in 1647 Mazarin gave the order for its demolition. Under the Ancien Régime, it was converted into an agricultural center and included a motte with a stone keep, a lower court connected to the motte and protected by a curtain wall, a drawbridge, and, in the lower court, a medieval barn, a 17th-century corps de logis, and a dovecote. The site started to deteriorate. Ownership of the ruins is private now. The French Ministry of Culture has recognized it as a monument historique since 1926. #History #Architecture #Castles

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