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The Château de la Courbe, two kilometres south-east of the village of Brée, in the Mayenne, held the title of castellany with high, middle and low justice.
The estate comprised the demesne, with quitrents, rents and seigneurial rights over most of the parish, and two hundred arpents of heathland in the Landes de la Charnie, in Livet and Saint-Christophe-du-Luat.
At the entrance to Châtres, this imposing château stands on the site of a feudal castle, of which a turret, ramparts and traces of ditches remain.
Built mainly in the 15th century, the Château du Rocher at Mézangers gained a Renaissance gallery (1510-1535) and a wing in 1728.
A listed 15th- and 16th-century château, linked to the Hundred Years' War, with Renaissance architecture and painted panels of 1625.
An 11th-century keep that withstood William the Conqueror and an early 17th-century residence above a ravine, at Sainte-Suzanne.
The Château de Foulletorte, 2 km from Saint-Georges-sur-Erve, is a 16th- and 17th-century house on a former feudal motte by a lake.
In the heart of the town, in a fully restored medieval setting, the castle of Mayenne dominates the town and the river.