600 years of history along the Trieux...
Owned by the Côtes-d'Armor department since 1958, Château de la Roche-Jagu is a 15th-century building listed as a historic monument.
A 15th-century Breton manor house
Protecting the Trieux estuary, the castle is the last remaining example of a defensive system built between Pontrieux and the Bréhat archipelago. Tradition has it that in the 11th century a man called Jagu had a motte castrale built, which was gradually transformed into a stone fortress in the 12th and 13th centuries. Destroyed during the War of the Breton Succession (1341-1365), the castle was rebuilt in 1405 for noble dame Catherine de Troguindy, owner of the site, with the authorisation of the Duke of Brittany Jean V (1389 - 1442), "on condition that the Duke would always have free access to it without interference from the said Catherine". Raised to the rank of barony by the Duke of Brittany François II in 1487, the land of La Roche-Jagu passed into the hands of several families under the Ancien Régime.
Listed as a historic monument on 25 June 1930, the château was bequeathed to the Conseil Général des Côtes-du-Nord by the Viscount d'Alès in 1958.
Owned by the Côtes-d'Armor department since 1958, Château de la Roche-Jagu is a 15th-century building listed as a historic monument.
A 15th-century Breton manor house
Protecting the Trieux estuary, the castle is the last remaining example of a defensive system built between Pontrieux and the Bréhat archipelago. Tradition has it that in the 11th century a man called Jagu had a motte castrale built, which was gradually transformed into a stone fortress in the 12th and 13th centuries. Destroyed during the War of the Breton Succession (1341-1365), the castle was rebuilt in 1405 for noble dame Catherine de Troguindy, owner of the site, with the authorisation of the Duke of Brittany Jean V (1389 - 1442), "on condition that the Duke would always have free access to it without interference from the said Catherine". Raised to the rank of barony by the Duke of Brittany François II in 1487, the land of La Roche-Jagu passed into the hands of several families under the Ancien Régime.
Listed as a historic monument on 25 June 1930, the château was bequeathed to the Conseil Général des Côtes-du-Nord by the Viscount d'Alès in 1958.