The heavy defensive walls were once guarded by some of France's most famous figures: King Richard I “the Lionheart” of England, who we already met as a prisoner at Trifels Castle, Simon de Montfort, leader of one of the crusades, the Lords of Beynac and the four Lords of Périgord, who ruled in the castle's state room. It is said that deep in the heart of the fortress, the echoes of the battles of the Hundred Years' War still reverberate.