Discover the fortress Its great characters The history of the Royal Fortress of Chinon is associated with famous people. Theobald the Cheat (around 910 - around 975) Fulk the Quarrelsome (1043 - 1109) Henry II Plantagenet (1133 - 1189) Eleanor of Aquitaine (1124 - 1204) Philip Augustus (1165 - 1223) Jacques de Molay (around 1243 - 1314) Charles VII (1403 - 1461) Mary of Anjou (1404 - 1463) Joan of Arc (1412 - 1429) Prosper Mérimée (1803 - 1870)
