 A fortress was built at that time, in ruin since the war of the English and of which remains today, bases of the keep.Villaines-la-Juhel initially formed a châtellenie, chief town for the franks-fiefs of one of the seigniories of Maine in 1312 and concerning the county of Maine.The family of Champagne occupied the ground of Villaines-la-Juhel until the French Revolution.