Montrottier Castle

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Château de Montrottier, France

Montrottier Castle [mɔ̃tʁɔtje] is an old fortified house, from the 13th century, remodeled several times and restored in the 19th century, which stands in the commune of Lovagny in the department of Haute-Savoie in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, a dozen kilometers west of Annecy, near the Fier gorges.

The site would probably have been occupied in Roman or Saracen times with a defense post.

The castle buildings were built between the 13th and 15th centuries, with additions in the 19th and 20th centuries.

In 1263, the Montrottier family is cited in an act signed in Lovagny. This family held it either from the hands of the counts of Geneva or the lords of Pontverre. In 1266, the castle fell to the de Grésy family. The last of the name gave it in 1425 to Amédée VIII of Savoy, who sold it two years later, on March 19, 1427, to Pierre de Menthon, Bailli du Genevois, advisor and ambassador of Savoy in Paris in 1417, in Rome in 1432 and in Genoa in 1441, of the Duke of Savoy Amédée VIII; at the origin of the Menthon-Montrottier branch, for a sum of 9,000 florins. The latter will have a lot of construction and renovation work carried out. It was at the castle that he died, on March 31, 1455, of an injury sustained in Chambéry following a duel with Jean de Compey.

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