| Saint-Georges-Motel | |
| Commune Status: | Commune |
| Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason ville fr Saint-Georges-Motel 27.svg |
| Arrondissement: | Évreux |
| Canton: | Saint-André-de-l'Eure |
| Insee: | 27543 |
| Postal Code: | 27710 |
| Mayor: | Jean-Louis Guirlin[1] |
| Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
| Intercommunality: | CA Pays de Dreux |
| Coordinates: | 48.7936°N 1.3675°W |
| Elevation M: | 120 |
| Elevation Min M: | 67 |
| Elevation Max M: | 132 |
| Area Km2: | 4.97 |
Saint-Georges-Motel (in French pronounced as /sɛ̃ ʒɔʁʒ mɔtɛl/) is a commune in the Eure department in Normandy in northern France.[2]
The early 17th-century Château Saint-Georges-Motel, is a 10,000-square-foot castle surrounded by a moat on a 235-acre property that includes eighteen outbuildings. King Henry IV spent the night on the estate before winning the Battle of Ivry that united France.[3]
In the 1920s,[4] the château was purchased as a summer house by American heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt when she was married to the French aviator and industrialist Jacques Balsan,[5] after her divorce from Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough.[6] While Consuelo owned the château, Prime Minister Winston Churchill was a frequent visitor.[7] Vanderbilt's ownership of the château inspired her mother, Alva Belmont to purchase the Château d'Augerville.[8]
The château was listed for sale for $8.21 million in 2017 by its then owners, Catherine Hamilton, president of the American Friends of Versailles, and her husband, David Hamilton, a Houston-raised, Chicago-based businessman. They purchased the château in the late 1980s for $6 million.[3]