Located in the France - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ...French town of Saumur is a small city and commune in the Maine_et_Loire département of France on the Loire River, with an approximate population of 30,000 (in 2001). ...Saumur, in the Maine_et_Loire is a département in west_central France. ...Maine_et_Loire département, the Château de Saumur was originally constructed as a fortified stronghold. After its destruction in Events Constantine X fell out of power in the Byzantine Empire. ...1067, the A château ( French for castle; plural châteaux) is a manor house or residence of the lord of the manor or a country house of gentry, usually French, with or without fortifications. ...château was rebuilt by a member of the powerful Angevin is the name applied to two distinct medieval dynasties which originated as counts (from 1360, dukes) of the western French province of Anjou (of which angevin is the adjectival form), but later came to rule far greater areas including England, Hungary and Poland (see Angevin Empire). ...Plantagenet family.

The castle of Saumur, set above the town of Saumur

In the early part of the 1200s, Philip II (French: Philippe II), called Philip Augustus (French: Philippe Auguste) (August 21, 1165 - July 14, 1223), was King of France from 1180 to 1223. ...King Philippe II made Saumur part of his royal domain but his son, Louis IX of France, as painted by El Greco in the 16th Century. ...King Louis IX (Saint Louis) was responsible for the castle's rebirth. It changed hands several times until 1589 when the Protestant By Frans Pourbus the younger. ...King Henri IV (of France and Navarre) gifted the castle to Duplessis_Mornay.

In Events February 9 _ Gregory XV is elected pope. ...1621 the castle was converted into an army barracks then into a state prison under Bonaparte as general Napoleon Bonaparte ( 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a general of the French Revolution and was the ruler of France as First Consul (Premier Consul) of the French Republic from November 11, 1799 to May 18, 1804, then as Emperor of the French (Empereur des Français...Napoleon Bonaparte. The castle has a dungeon and watchtower, and houses the Musée de la Figurine_Jouet, a collection of very old toys and A rare Dresden porcelain figurine Figurine is a diminutive form of the word figure, and generally refers to a small, human_made object that represents some sort of being. ...figurines of soldiers, kings of France, and clowns.

In the first part of the 20th century, the city of Saumur acquired the castle and began a restoration program to house the museum of the decorative arts. In line with the Saumur area's equestrian tradition and its famous " The Cadre Noir are an equestrian display team based in the city of Saumur in western France. ...Cadre Noir", the castle also serves as a Museum of the Horse.