In Meise, Flemish Brabant, Belgium, there is a castle called Bouchout Castle. This territory of the fledgling Duchy of Brabant was ideally situated between the Berthout family, the lords of Grimbergen, and the County of Flanders in the twelfth century. Wouter van Craaynem most likely constructed the first fortification near the conclusion of the Grimbergen Wars, 1150–1170. Bouchout Castle is located 32 meters above sea level. Daniel van Bouchout, a knight who fought valiantly at the Battle of Worringen, built the Donjon tower of Bouchout Castle around 1300. The Van der Marck and van Sevenbergen families, known as Transylvanus, owned Bouchout Castle in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Lack of upkeep caused the castle to deteriorate, and the Spanish domination and iconoclastic rage made matters worse. Only a long drawbridge could approach the rectangular medieval Bouchout Castle, which was encircled by a sizable pond. Between 1800 and 1830, during the French Revolution, the fortress was partially damaged. Once more, Count Amadeus de Beauffort renovated Bouchout Castle in 1832, giving it its current neo-Gothic look. Empress Charlotte of Mexico resided at the Bouchout Domain from 1879 to 1927. In 1867, Mexican Republicans put her husband, Emperor Maximilian I, to death. After that, Charlotte lived in seclusion at Bouchout Castle. #History#Architecture#Castles
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