France
The Château d'Aubigny, in the parish and manor of Aubigny-sur-Nère in the ancient province of Berry in France, is an historic ancestral seat of a junior branch of the Scottish House of Stewart, known by the territorial title Seigneur d'Aubigny. It is known to the French as the Château des Stuarts.
The estate was first acquired by Sir John Stewart of Darnley, 1st Comte d'Évreux, 1st Seigneur de Concressault, 1st Seigneur d'Aubigny (c. 1380 – 1429), a Scottish nobleman and famous military commander who served as Constable of the Scottish Army in France, supporting the French against the English during the Hundred Years War. He was a fourth cousin of King James I of Scotland (reigned 1406 to 1437), the third monarch of the House of Stewart.
Text adapted from “Château d'Aubigny” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Château des Stuarts ranks #5,947 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #532 of the 793 mapped in France. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,161 times in the last 60 days, more than 54% of the atlas. 2 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Orléans, 61 km away. It is one of the 73 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of the Loire Valley. See how France compares in the castle statistics.
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