Chateau de Chinon
High upon a steep escarpment above the Vienne, a small branch of the great Loire River, emerge the battered but noble ruins of one of the oldest and most historic castles in France- Chinon. The city of Chinon is filled with lush green meadows and game filled forests, that from the earliest times it was known as “ the garden of France.” This is the region where Francois Rabelais passed his childhood and the region of the lively wines of France. Now, you are invited to see this chateau’s enriched history, beauty and amusement. The castle was built for the first time by stone by Theobald I. Count of Blois, on a steep plateau. Then the castle came into the hands of Henry Plantagenet, Count of Anjou who had become King of England in 1154. He had the castle and its outbuildings made bigger and died there in 1189. The Plantagenet empire then came into the hands of John Lackland, Richard Lionheart's brother. John Lackland’s scheming and treachery caused him the hostility of his barons who appealed against him in the Royal court of Paris. After the trial, John Lackland had his French fiefs confiscated. Thus, he was a King of England on French l
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