Château Latour: La Tour Consolidates
During the ensuing two centuries historical data on life at La Tour Saint-Maubert seems rather thin. What we do know is that rather early on during his tenure, in 1464, Charles II d’Albret seems to have lost possession of the seigneurie of La Tour Saint-Maubert following a successful challenge to his ownership in a court of law. Thus the seigneurie passed to three other individuals, these being Gaston de L’Isle, a local knight and seigneur, Marguerite de Treulon (c.1380 – c.1473), the widow of Pierre de Makanam, and Hugues Viau, seigneur of Saint-Genays and deputy mayor of Bordeaux.
The seigneurie apparently now in new hands, little else is known. What is clear is that by this time the seigneurie of La Tour Saint-Maubert was quite extensive, although viticulture was a minor activity and the land was much more likely to be used for growing wheat and other arable crops, on a very small scale. This was still some time before the drainage of the Médoc, and the dominance of the vine (like that seen below, at the foot of the Latour estate) which we see today.
