Chateau Champenois de Marac

In 1260, Jean de Marac had the Champagne castle built (or fortified) overlooking the pond. In 1353, we find a Jean I of Chauffour, lord of Marac, married to Marguerite d'Echalot. Then the lordship of Marac is passed down directly to his son Jean II of Chauffour, and then again to his children, Jean III known as the Elder, Garnerot, Jeanne, lady of Deuilly, and especially Guillaume de Chauffour esquire, known as Raillard, who took over this lordship in 1400 to pass it on to his son, Jean IV of Chauffour, bailiff of Chaumont from 1420 to 1429, who would unite the two fiefs within the same family.

The Champagne castle was occupied by the ligueurs until 1592, who launched raids against the city of Langres, intercepting communications between this city and Châteauvillain. After the castle was retaken by the Langrois from the English, it would become by marriage the property of the Barres family, which would bring together the two fiefs of Marac. Finally, in 1746, Gabrie-Rose des Barres brought Marac in marriage to Philibert-Charles-Nicolas Pietrequin, who sold his portion of Champagne lordship around 1750 to Marquis Charles Camille de Capisucchi-Bologne living in the castle of Thivet. As for the castle, it was burned in 1814 by the Russians and the Prussians, and was completely reconstructed from 1817 to 1820 in the romantic style on its medieval foundations by the Count of Messey.

No visit: private site only visible from the outside.

Agence d’Attractivité de la Haute-Marne