Butte Saint-Clair du Mesnil-Vigot

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La butte Saint-Clair is a castral motte, vestige of an ancient fortified building, which stands on the territory of the former French commune of Mesnil-Vigot, in the department of Manche, in the Normandy region. The hill is classified as historical monuments.

Location: The motte with bass-cour is located on the edge of the marsh of the same name, at the place called Chaussée, 2 km north of the village of Mesnil-Vigot and at the same distance southwest of Remilly-sur-Lozon in the new commune of Remilly Les Marais, in the French department of the Manche.

The feudal motte, which belonged to the fief du Hommet, and whose chiefs bore the title of Baron de Remilly, cited around 1080 to 1252, is the vestige of an old stronghold built around the 11th century. Jourdain III du Hommet († 1271), seigneur of Rémilly and Marigny, a connetable of Normandy, was the last of the lineage of the Hommet to hold the castle of the Butte-Saint-Clair, which passed by alliance to the family of Courcy, then to the 14th century to the Malesmain, then to the Montauban. In August 1356, towards the St. Lawrence, the square, possession of Olivier IV de Montauban, was besieged and destroyed by the partisans...