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the origins of the castle

a castle mound with primitive, ditches and fences, was erected without permission and threatening the nearby castle of Saint Geours, head of the sheriff Auribat. In 1311, investigators English marked this dangerous usurpation. It will be recognized and legitimized in 1315, when Edward II of England, Duke of Aquitaine Bernard Poyanne authorized to erect a strong house.

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- position atop the high hill overlooking the plain of the Adour
the center of a promontory rising,
and protected on three sides by hills and ravines two streams
from two sources close -

In 1325, a garrison of ten armed men and sixty sergeants was divided between Poyanne and Saint Geours.

In Guyenne English to the Béarn, lands of the Counts of Foix and Armagnac, the small fee of Poyanne suffers the vicissitudes of the Hundred Years War. He spent the tutelage of English-French party, assigned, confiscated, returned at the discretion of the struggles, alliances and interests. Dependent of the dukes of Aquitaine, the Viscounts Dax then Tartas Thus in 1364, is the lord of Poyanne Tartas Guiraud, which was captured in 1372 and all his property confiscated by Charles V and felony crime. Poyanne is then given to Amanieu, Sire d'Albret. At that time the Lord Bertrand Baylenx seems run the country as a captain, or road or bribed by the balance Count of Armagnac before retrieving his lordship held of his father Bernard and especially his mother Miramond Albret. (Then a little confusing ...)

A stone castle was succeeded vraissemblablement original castle in Gascony style of the era, namely a strong house equipped with a square or two laps.

This castle was partially demolished early in the reign of Louis XIII, so that nothing remains of earlier buildings in the seventeenth century, except perhaps the large pavilion east from which were added to the main building and the central pavilion.

Bernard of Baylenx, Baron Poyanne and Lieutenant General of the King of Navarre and Bearn, at the height of its power and benefit of royal patronage as a reward for his loyalty and his successes against the Huguenots, gave its current configuration in 1624. He confided

reconstruction Gratian (Gassiot) of Lerm. The latter, a native of Cadillac master architect, son of master mason, was for seven years apprenticed to Peter Souffron, the architect of the castle Duke Epernon Cadillac, construction of which he participated. It was inspired no doubt that some construction requirements are close. He eventually settled Bazas to which he was the architect of the city and the Duke of Epernon itself.

creates a vast esplanade in front of the building. The work spread out from 1624 to 1627 as regards the central pavilion and the accompanying eastward. The large pavilion is occupied, according to tradition, the location of the remains of the old fortress walls, some of which remain. The evidence would narrow openings and the southern facade and the creation of six false windows and trompe l'oeil detailing for symmetry, proportion and design of the openings of other flags and main building. Lerm of himself alludes in his works project to existing building at the time of its intervention.

The two pavilions were built after West, although apparently planned from the design of the building.

At its inventory completed December 17, 1781 Master Camy royal notary alludes to a previous inventory drawn up by him, and another by his father before the archives were removed and transferred "when the building of new houses in this castle. " So the two houses were built west later that we do not say in the eighteenth century, between 1771 and 1773, as evidenced by the last letters to his steward Marquis

In a study of 1812 on the monuments and ancient castles and abbeys of the Borough of Dax reads " quarente years ago that the old castle was demolished Poyanne, this castle was very hard"