Château de Beaubigné

Château and chapel with high forest (Jaillot). Château and village (Cassini).

The lordship, which possessed high justice, was subject to Ruillé via Fromentières.

The Château Beaubigné is a former manor house from the end of the 15th century, extended at the beginning of the 17th century. Restored in the 19th century by the architect Jules Dussauze, the château was complemented by the construction of outbuildings and the creation of gardens. The terrace, overlooking the Mayenne valley and designed "à la française", with a parterre formerly adorned with boxwood embroidery and a parterre interspersed with remarkable yew topiary, testifies to the revival of the formal garden. In contrast, to the west and north of the residence, a landscape park and a large vegetable garden with an old greenhouse and an orangery develop. The château consists of a main building and a wing set back at a right angle. The main facade is decorated with stepped and interconnected windows that penetrate the roof with pointed or rounded gables. Coats of arms, all mutilated, were visible on the gables and above the doors.

The isolated chapel was built and consecrated under the patronage of Saint Julian the Martyr [Which?] and Saint Anthony [Which?], then endowed in 1444 for a foundation of three masses per week from the tithes of Méfremont and some other properties. Gilles Marais, former professor at the Collège de Château-Gontier, was chaplain in 1748.

The Château Beaubigné was listed as a historical monument by decree of August 19, 2002.

Lucas de Baubigné, 1253. Huet de Baubigné, procurator of Guillaume de Craon, 1337. Thibault de Baubigné, mentioned in 1365 for a contract with the abbot of La Roë and deceased in Château-Gontier, 1381. The name continues and the family still owns some parts of the estate in the 15th century, as Jeanne de Baubigné and Marguerite d'Olivet, widow of Jean de Baubigné, are mentioned at the assizes of Fromentières in 1416. However, Hugues or Pierre d'Arquenay is Lord of Baubigné in 1389. In 1543, Jean du Boisjourdan relieves René de Baubigné from the arrière-ban against payment. Jean Bahoul, in the name of Jeanne d'Arquenay in 1408 and also by personal acquisition and cession of the rights of Guillaume Bahoul, his father. His widow receives a safe-conduct from the English to reside with her children in "apatissé" land; she died after founding the chapel, in 1457. Hugues d'Arquenay, 1461, 1496. Guyon d'Arquenay, 1503. Marguerite d'Avaugour, 1508, 1514. Guy d'Arquenay, 1527, 1534. Antoine d'Arquenay, 1538, 1546. Claude d'Arquenay, 1570. Nicolas d'Angennes, husband of Jeanne d'Arquenay, 1571, 1607. Charlotte Leliepvre, widow of Guy Lasnier, buyer, Lord of L'Effretière, counselor in the Grand Council, 1609. Guillaume Lasnier, also of the Grand Council, died on November 17, 1661; Marthe Lefebvre de la Faluère, his widow, was buried with him in the chapel of the Ursulines of Angers on July 25, 1716, "after 55 years of widowhood, spent in all exercises of virtue and piety". René du Tertre de Mée, 1712, for one third; the rest belonged to Paul de Brunetière and Pierre-Charles de Langan. Paul du Tertre, Lord of Soucé, La Forêt d'Aubert, whose wife, Bernardine Bionneau, was buried on November 30, 1717, in the chapel of Saint-Jacques du Bourgneuf. Jean-Baptiste du Tertre, Lord of Brissarthe and Miré, who marries Renée-Gabrielle Trochon, daughter of René Trochon, Sieur de la Chapelle, in Château-Gontier in 1722; he always resided in Baubigné, † 1779. Jean-Baptiste du Tertre and Renée-Gabrielle Trochon make a mutual donation on March 16, 1723. Jean-Baptiste-Hyacinthe-Marie du Tertre, Maréchal de Camp, participates in the assembly of the nobility in Angers, 1789. Jean-Baptiste-Hyacinthe-Marie du Tertre, Maréchal des Camps et Armées du Roi, sold for 160,000 ₶ to Marie-L. de Létendart, widow of Jean-Henri Dumont, on July 31, 1784; but there was probably a repurchase. In the 19th century, Baubigné passed from the Préaux to the Vincent de Champorin family.