It’s raining on the outskirts of Ikauna on this fall Monday. Iron oxide-soaked soil tends to turn orange, mixing with muddy puddles on the construction site. Through the gray sky to make the green oak still pale, a medieval atmosphere penetrates, which immediately throws us into the universe of the Capetian barn. But our imagination hardly works.
Under the wall to the right, a flock of geese sounds in the mud. on the left, the regular clang of a stonecutter is heard. opposite, at the foot of the castle walls, a heavy draft horse Comtois pulls his weight among the building blocks. Only a few children, with sneakers on their feet and scarves on their heads, remind us that we are in 2022, almost eight centuries after the death of the master of Gedelon.
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An ancestor born in 1199, but so young. The name of the vassal of the distinguished house of Gilbert Courtenay, Knight of Poisaille, whose line gave two regents to the Latin Empire of Constantinople, is not preserved in the annals. Climbing the family tree, a branch disappeared from the scrolls. it is impossible to find any trace of the marriage of the young lord of Yon with the niece of Jean de Tucci. Absolutely nothing until 1997, when we discovered that Gilbert received the right from King Philip Augustus of France between 1180 and 1223;bastir chastel:“. The castle in question stands there, unassailable, despite the weight of the years. Were it not for this light brown patina, delicately set upon the surface of the stones, and this striking absence of a roof over the greater part of the building, one would almost wonder by what miracle such a remnant could have passed the time without further alteration.
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Archaeological trickery
A divine miracle maybe not, but a temporary scam for sure. The entire story of Gedelon is an archaeological trick designed to deceive the passage of time. When history doesn’t leave enough traces to retrace it, isn’t it enough to relive it?
Source: Le Figaro
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