Top 5 Castles around Puymoyen

The Tower is difficult to visualize; you must stay in the castle, which offers guest rooms, to access it.

A former stronghold during the Hundred Years' War, the building is said to have served as a landmark for the English, nicknamed the Red Devils, which is said to have given it its name. The building is currently privately owned. https://www.chateau-fort-manoir-chateau.eu/chateaux-charente-chateau-a-puymoyen-chateau-du-diable.html https://www.francebleu.fr/emissions/histoires-et-patrimoine-dans-les-2-charentes/les-charentes-mysterieuses-le-chateau-du-diable-a-puymoyen-16-1426390

Magnificent little Charentais village, with a small church and its garden

The Château de la Tranchade dominates the Anguienne valley on a rocky outcrop protecting the south-eastern access to Angoulême. A strategic stronghold to control Angoulême, La Tranchade has often been besieged.

The tower was built in the 15th century. The keep is a strong square tower that may date from the end of the 14th or the beginning of the 15th century. The defensive walls are made of cut stone. The machicolations are intact. Only the walkway is damaged to the east. Inside, the rooms and the original staircase no longer exist. The small chapel has remains of frescoes from the beginning of the 15th century or perhaps from the 14th (knight; Saint Michael; Saint Christopher; king; horsewoman...). The remains of the tower buildings were remodeled in the 19th century.

Three truncated rectangular towers and beautiful vaulted rooms remain from the 13th century castle, which was extensively altered in the 17th century. The battlements on fancy battlements are from the 19th century.

The tower was built in the 15th century. The keep is a strong square tower that may date from the end of the 14th or the beginning of the 15th century. The defense walls are in freestone. The machicolations are intact. Only the rampart walk is damaged to the east. Inside, the rooms and the original staircase no longer exist. The small chapel has remains of frescoes from the dabut from the 15th century or perhaps from the 14th (knight; Saint Michael; Saint Christopher; king; horsewoman ...). The remains of the tower buildings were remodeled in the 19th century.

It would be Chanderic, Lord of Saintes at war against the Count of Angoulême, who would have built a fortress, around the 9th century, on the rock where the current castle is located. During the Hundred Years War this castle was disputed between the French and the English. In 1387 Louis de Sancerre, Marshal of France, drove them out. The English took over the castle and were driven out again in 1416 by the Sire de Barbazan, captain of Charles VII who had it demolished. Rebuilt in Gothic style in the 15th century by Jean de La Rochandry, the castle passed by marriage to the Saint-Gelais in 1445, then to the Tison d'Argence and, around 1580, to the Forgues de Lavedan who had it modified and enlarged around 1613 and he gave a Renaissance look. The castle was sold in 1681 to Etienne Chérade, Count of Montbron. In the 18th century, as it threatened to ruin, the Lady of Rouffiac had part of the walls knocked down. In 1850 the banker Servant, from Angoulême, bought what remained of the castle of La Rochandry, had it rebuilt in 1852 as it is today and was ruined in this operation.