chteau-gaillard

For the commune in the Ain dpartement, see Chteau-Gaillard, Ain.

Chteau-Gaillard is a now ruined medieval castle, located in Les Andelys, in the Eure dpartement, in Normandy, France. It is located 95 km southwest of Paris and 40 km from Rouen.

History

Richard I of England ordered the building of the castle in hardly more than 12 months, in 1197 and 1198. The goal was to protect Richard's duchy of Normandy from the French kings. The troops of Philip II of France captured it after a long siege in 1203. It was dismantled 400 years later under Henry IV of France.

Miscellaneous

The castle was used as a setting for the medieval segment of a famous Franco-Belgian graphic novel on time travel: Le Pige diabolique (The Diabolical Trap) of the Blake and Mortimer series by Edgar Pierre Jacobs.

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