Cherveux (French pronunciation: [ʃɛʁvø]) is a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in western France.

In the Middle Ages, the Lusignan family became powerful, allowing one of its branches to ascend to the throne of Cyprus and Jerusalem at the beginning of the thirteenth century.

Hugues XI de Lusignan fell out with St. Louis IX, who seized Cherveux in 1242 and gave it to his brother Alphonse, Count of Poitiers.

Of Scottish origin, captain of the bodyguard of King Louis XI of France, Conningham (or Conygham) had the means to erect the whole of the present Cherveux Castle in one single effort about 1470.

The Scots soldiers of the Garde Écossaise fought alongside Joan of Arc against England during the Hundred Years' War.

On 22 March 1421, a Franco-Scots force under John Stewart, Earl of Buchan, and Gilbert Motier de La Fayette defeated a larger English Army at the Battle of Baugé.

King Louis XI of France had The Scots Guard act as personal bodyguards to the French monarchy.