The castle was the temporary royal apartment of Dom Carlos, the grandson of exiled Dom Carlos VII of Bourbon, who ruled the throne of Spain by the abolition of the Salic Law. He was received for a month by the Lords of Jalesnes and they did not skimp on the preparations – building a new staircase, constructing a theatre in one of the rooms to host dancers from Nantes and actors from l’Opera House in Paris, embroidering a square of lawn for Dom Carlos’ WC with very fine fabric and transparent linen, providing silver bits and silver shoes for the horses, and adding extra grass to the central aisle to soften the pitch of the horses.
The servants also benefited from his stay, through pillaging and theft of the silverware by taking it through a small window down into the moat, that still to this day, bears traces of these thefts! The resources of the castle gradually disappeared over time to where there was little left.
