Suggérer une modification sur le lieuMaison Ysalguier
6 rue Saint-Michel, 31190 Auterive
The Ysalguier House is a 12th century building, built according to historians by a Montaut family on the ruins of a Roman castrum. The house Ysalguier owes its name to a line of lords who bought it in 1361 for 2000 guilders. The Ysalguier are capitouls of Toulouse and changeurs of King Philippe le Bel.
Their fortune began to decline in the 16th century, and in 1536 they sold the seigneurial house of Auterive to Henri d'Albret, king of Navarre and grandfather of Henri IV. The house then passed from hand to hand, until 1944, when it was bought by the grandfather of Germaine Malbosc, a great figure of the city of Auterive. She bequeathed it to her little cousin by marriage, Marie-Claire Fines, who then passed it on to her daughter.
One of the jewels of the house is its magnificent half-timbered facade with mullioned windows. You have to climb half a floor to discover the intriguing «prisoner’s room» where a certain Jean du Saut counted the days on the walls and wrote that he was «put in p
Tags
Château, hôtel urbain, palais, manoir & Monument historique
Accès
Parking of the post office nearby, station TER d'Auterive 10 minutes walk.
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