Castle of Rumilly

The castle of Rumilly (named castle of Arcine today) is a Château of pace débonnaire which draws up with 550 meters of altitude above the common of Saint-Pierre-in-Faucigny in the department of the Haute-Savoie of the area the Rhone-Alps.

History

This vast Manoir was formerly known under the name of Rumilly-under Cornillon, name which it owed on the one hand in its vicinity of Saint-Pierre de Rumilly and on the other hand to its position below the castle of Cornillon whose only some walls in ruin remain nowadays. It formerly kept the outlet of the Vallée of the Borne and was the seat of a Seigneurie which extended on a territory from twenty square kilometers. The castle of Rumilly-under-Cornillon, to give him the name which was it his up to one recent time, would have been built with the XIIème century by the Count S of Geneva. It was in 1395 the property of Pierre of Geneva which constituted it in douaire with his wife Marguerite de Joinville, which was to yield it later to the Duc of Savoy, Amédée VIII.

Later the castle passed in various hands. It is in 1530 that Pierre of Forest bought it of Philippe of Savoy, duke of Nemours, auprès of which it had been high in the capacity as page. Pierre was very estimated of the duke Charles It which delegated it near the king François Ier with the title of Ambassadeur. We see the castle consequently being transmitted of wire father in the family of Forest. Thus the residence, always solid, was successively the property of Charles of Forest (1522-1565) general Lieutenant of Savoy, which fought celebrates it baron Adrets, and perishes with Vienna, in 1565, out of Jean of Forest, Colonel of the famous Régiment of Savoy, which fought victoriously against the Bernois, in 1589, and was killed the following year with the Bataille of Good, of Georges of Forest, baron de Rumilly, of Gilbert I of Forest, him also general lieutenant and who carried the title of count de Rumilly. In 1733, the castle passed Victor Amédée of Forest which sold it with the Général Muffat of Saint-Love, one of the best lieutenants of the Prince Eugene. Rumilly became then the property of the family of Arcine, from where its current name.

Structure

The old residence seigneuriale, always solid on its bases, has still beautiful pace with its turn square high of three stages whose ground floor was used formerly as Prison, and its massive main building whose angle forms an interior court full with greenery. All these buildings are occupied by apartments with the narrow windows, in which many generations followed one another which left their print there. The unit is built on a plate from where one enjoys a wide sight on the surrounding area and where one breathes an air of a remarkable purity which arrives in right-hand side line of the the Alps all close relations.

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