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Topic: chillon castle switzerland
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max hensser
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posted 08-23-2001 09:02 AM
  
i have some info,pics ect;i need to know the current use of this castle and its exact dimensions urgently! Can anyone help?
Also when was a castle first built on this site.It was used in the bronze age & also in roman times but i need to know when it was first built as the origin of the castle we see today.. |
Peter
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posted 09-12-2001 04:41 PM
The earliest parts, the central Tower of Alinge and the Duke's Tower, probably date from the 10th\11th centuries respectively. These earlier fortifications were developed in the middle of the 13th C. by the architect Pierre Mainier into the imposing structure we see today for Peter II of Savoy. |
Merlin
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posted 09-13-2001 05:15 AM
Good information, Peter. Others answered to the same question under
http://www.castlesontheweb.com/quest/Forum7/HTML/000474.html About the beginning of the medieval castle in the 10th century: Everything's very unsure, because there are not many remains of similar buildings of that time and area to be compared. There are many old tales about castles to have belonged to the rudolfingian Kings of Burgundy and the ancestors of the counts of Savoy, such aus Humbert Whitehand: He or his family may have taken or get Chillon from the bishop of Sion in the early 11th century, and the bishop, who was also count of the nearby Wallis, may have got the castle (if it already existed) along with that countship directly from King Rudolph III. at the end of the 10th century. |
Peter
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posted 09-14-2001 04:00 PM
Always looked and sounded an interesting site. One that is on my 'visit' list, no matter that it is a 'Tourist' castle. |
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