Château de Rochechouart

Château de Rochechouart is a thirteenth-century French castle, located at the top of the confluence of the Grêne and Vayres rivers in the commune of Rochechouart within the département of Haute-Vienne. Background The Viscounts of Rochechouart reigned for 800 years in the castle. • Aymeric I, who lived around 990, was the ancestor of the dynasty. • Aymeric IV took part in the First Crusade at the side of Godfrey of Bouillon • Aymeric VI (1170-1230) built the current castle, of which the keep and …