La Seigneurie
La Seigneurie is the traditional residence of the Seigneur of Sark.[1][2] The Seigneur is the head of Sark in the Channel Islands.[1]
Michael Beaumont, 22nd Seigneur of Sark, and his wife, Diana, moved from the Seigneurie to a smaller cottage on their estate when frail health triggered a need for a smaller residence that was better suited to aging residents.[1] In 2009, Michael Beaumont agreed to allow David Synnott and his wife to live in the Seigneurie for ten years, in return for making some renovations.[3]
Michael Beaumont died on 3 July 2016 and was succeeded by his eldest son, Major Christopher Beaumont.
Both the House and the gardens of the Seigneurie were open to the public as of 2018.
References
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Lauren Collins (29 October 2012). "Sark Spring: A feudal feud in the Channel Islands". New Yorker magazine. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
Beaumont's seat is a seventeenth-century manor called La Seigneurie. (A couple of years ago, as Diana's health failed, the Beaumonts moved to a cottage on the estate's grounds.) Its corners yield the relics of generations: a whalebone seat; a wood-and-cane wheelchair; a tithe cart used, until 1957, to collect every tenth sheaf of wheat. A recent visitor almost tripped on a cannon ball.
- ^ Marshall, Michael (27 September 1967). Hitler envaded Sark. Paramount-Lithoprint, 1967. p. 4. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
- ^ Foreman, Liza (4 October 2014). "The Crazy Medieval Island of Sark". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 17 May 2015.