Chanteloup Castle

Chanteloup Castle is an old castle, the 11th century, rebuilt in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, which stands on the French town of Chanteloup in the Manche department, in the Normandy region.

The manor is mentioned for the first time, in 1022, in a charter for the benefit of the abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel.

It is owned by the Chanteloup family who have allied themselves with the Paynel family. At the beginning of the 15th century, Folco IV Paynel, Baron of Hambye and Bricquebec, Lord of Chanteloup of Moyon of credits, of Apilly (Saint-Senier-sous-Avranches), the Merlerault and Gace, is a powerful Lord of Normandy, banneret knight who gathers under his arms, four bachelors and ten to fourteen squires. His brother Nicole Paynel will succeed him whose daughter Jeanne Paynel will bring the castle of Chanteloup as a dowry to Louis d'Estouteville, the defender of Mont-Saint-Michel during the English assault of 1434, when he was in possession of the castle. The latter had the masonry and the repaired fence, which had been battered during the Hundred Years War. Antoine d'Estouteville, lord of Chanteloup from 1517 to 1556, abandoned the old castle, around 1520, for a new main building rebuilt in the medieval enclosure he occupied with his wife Isabeau de Carbonnel, daughter of the lord of Cerences.

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