Vic-le-Comte

Vic-le-Comte became a residence of the counts of Auvergne in the thirteenth century. Its castle chapel bears witness to their devotion and ambition. In the early sixteenth century John Stuart, Duke of Albany, and his wife Anne de la Tour, Countess of Auvergne and Boulogne, founded a Sainte-Chapelle beside their palace. It was intended to house precious relics, including a Holy Thorn and a fragment of the True Cross.