La Roche-en-Ardenne Castle

La Roche-en-Ardenne Castle is a ruined medieval castle inside the town La Roche-en-Ardenne, Province of Luxembourg, Belgium. The castle became constructed at the ruins of a Celtic oppidum, on a site where human attendance dates again to Neolithic times. The Romans later hooked up a fortified camp there. In the early eightth century, Pepin Landen built a villa at the site. Approximately 844, Adelard, Count of La Roche, hooked up the first castle. After the dying of Henri de l. A. Roche in 1152, the countship passed to Henry the Blind Count of Namur, and upon his death in 1196, to his daughter Ermesinde of Luxembourg.

In the 14th century, the population of La Roche were legal by using Jean the Blind, count of Luxembourg, to defend their metropolis through a wall and towers that bolstered the defensive device of the castle. The strategic importance of the citadel did no longer break out Louis XIV. From 1681 to 1688, he had a pupil of Vauban give a boost to the systems. However, those improvements did no longer motive him a good deal for the reason that fort turned into taken through the winners of the Succession of Spain and that they were disregarded it grade by grade.