Castle of Gevrey-Chambertin
The Château of Gevrey-Chambertin is a Forteresse Médiévale located in the prestigious wine field of Gevrey-Chambertin, located at 12 km in the south of Dijon, and 30 km in the north of Beaune on the Route of the Great wines in Coast-in Or.
History
The Castle of Gevrey-Chambertin, if it were probably strongly altered in second half of the XIIIe century were, at the time of Saint Bernard, and even a little before, a Prieuré property of the Abbaye of Cluny. Hugues de Chalon, bishop of Auxerre, and his/her sister Maheldis de Vergy both heirs to the count Lambert of Trawl-net and descendants of Manassès de Vergy (one of the powerful lords of Burgundy of the IXe century) make, in 1015 and 1019, gift of the “Curtis” called Gevrey with the monastery of Cluny whose Abbé is then Saint Odilon.They are besides two abbots of Cluny, Yves de Poisey and his nephew Yves de Chazan (both resulting from the lords of Maison of Vergy) which will give the final form “temporarily” to this castle between 1257 and 1275: a vast rectangle surrounded by ditches, with, with the western south, a portery (bridge sleeping and Drawbridge) flanked of two square towers. In south-east, a gross square tower, with the North-East, a small round tower in pendant surmounted by a dovecote and in the North-West, a surmounted tower of a gallery. A wall with covered way allowed the passage of a tower the other. The wars, plunderings, the fires and time transformed the fortress which did not preserve buildings of origin, that the portery (less one of the turns and the system of the drawbridge), the gross tower and the body of dwelling being next to the portery.
The Castle is sold like national good with the French revolution, in 1791 and is bought by Jacques Masson in 1858. The Masson family is always owner of the field and continuous to make live this Bourguignon inheritance actively.
The castle is opened with the tourist visit.
See too
- Abbey of Cluny
- House of Vergy
- List of the counts de Chalon
- List of the French castles
Bonds External
- Official site of the Castle of Gevrey-Chambertin
- Federation of the Sites Clunisiens