Château de Chamilly

The courtyard is surrounded by farm buildings and a main dwelling comprising a rounded tower on the left. In the 17th century, a classical-style building and a return-angle building were added. The castle, a private property, is not open to visitors.

12th century: The lords of Chamilly probably lived in an initial castle built outside the current village. Late 13th century: The existence of a fortified house is attested. 1388: The castle passes to Jean de Savianges. Around 1400: It passes to Pierre de Semur. Around 1440: It passes to Jean Petitjean. Lord of Chanceau-les-Marcigny, of Chamilly-en-Chalonnais, of Saint-Martin-du-Lac, husband of Ysabeau de la Porte, and father of Jean Petitjean, abbot of the Abbey of Saint-Martin d'Autun. Around 1500: It falls to the Moroges. 1543: Claudine de Moroges brings the seigneury to Jacques Bouton, her husband. 1644: Louis XIV elevates the seigneury to a county in reward for services rendered by Nicolas Bouton, lord, then count of Chamilly, baron of Montaigu, grandson of the preceding (having defended Stenay for forty-five days, he had become a field marshal). 1662: Upon the death of the preceding, Hérard Bouton, his son, succeeds him (he follows the Duke of Enghien in Spain where he fights against France, is amnestied by Louis XIV after the Treaty of the Pyrenees and becomes a field marshal and governor of the castle of Dijon; his brother, Noël Bouton, is the possible recipient of the Letters of a Portuguese Nun). 1672: Hérard Bouton dies during the Dutch campaign; his nephew, Louis-François Bouton, also a field marshal, succeeds him. 1776: Through Suzanne Martel, granddaughter of the preceding, the fief falls to Armand Joseph de Béthune, Duke of Chârost. 1794: The son of the preceding, the last lord of Chamilly, dies on the scaffold.

Chamilly and the lords of the house of Semur-en-Brionnais, H. de CHIZELLE (1972)

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