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Châtillon-on-Cluses is a common French, located in the department of the Haute-Savoie and the area the Rhone-Alps. The inhabitants are named Cassandrins with the masculine, and the cassandrines with the female one.

Geography

Place of required passage between the valley of the Giffre and the valley of the Arve, it is quite naturally with the collar (altitude 793 m) that the commune of Châtillon developed, around its castle.

History

The first mention of Châtillon goes back to 1178 in an act of the bishop of Geneva, Arducius, or a Alimard de Châtillon and its son Turumbert are quoted like witness. A Gerard, qualified of Viscount of Châtillon is quoted in 1210. The pope Célestin IV dies there in 1241.
L' history of chatillon goes up has 1032, when the king of Burgundy gives to the emperor Conrad II Salic the the royalty of Burgundy. The emperor then entrusts to the local lords the responsibility to manage their strongholds with their liking.

The family of the Faucigny then benefits from it to affirm their positions on their territory, delimited by the mountainous relief. It extends from slopes of the Salève and the Voirons to the solid mass of the Mont Blanc and is surrounded by the provinces of the Chablais, the Genevois and the territory of the counts de Genève. This territory perhaps controlled by several strategic points which are Faucigny (main home of the family of the Lords of Faucigny), Sallanches and Châtillon-on-Cluses. All these fortified towns are of the fortresses of the defensive type, but also of truths gathering places, centers administrative and economic. Then, one can find traces of Châtillon-on-Cluses in a historical study " Cluses and Faucigny" (work in two volumes in 1888 and 1889) by the Abbot Lavorel. It makes in this writing a complete and detailed description of the castle. It is also learned there that a system of signals had been set up in order to communicated between the castle of Châtillon-on-Cluses and the tower built at Cluses on the rock of Chessy.

In the beginning of XIIe century, the family of Faucigny takes part in the two first Croisades. She is then regarded as " Family of Large Noblesse" by Pierre Worthy the, abbot of Cluny. To reinforce its capacity near the clergy, each generation installs a person of the family on an episcopal see:

Guy de Faucigny, bishop of Geneva of 1078 to 1119
Amédée de Faucigny, bishop of Maurienne towards 1125
Guillaume de Faucigny bishop of Lausanne towards 1129
Arducius de Faucigny, bishop of Geneva of 1135 to 1185

The Lords of Faucigny make also generous donations with the Church. Guy de Faucigny will found in 1083 the priory of Contaminate-on-Arve. Aymon I of Faucigny will concede the valley of Sixt with the canons of Saint-Augustin where his/her Ponce brother to establish a monastery. And in 1151, the valley of Béol is offered to Jean of Spain which will install the Resting place there.

Aymon II of Faucigny is born in 1202 to be the Sir last of Faucigny. The wars between the lords of Savoy, Geneva and Dauphine are hard. Faucigny is then right in the middle of the conflicts, which will enable him to establish good alliances in its interest. The house of Geneva then is very weakened, and Faucigny will benefit from it to be released from their supervision and to be combined with the house of Savoy. It is at this period that Aymon II, will make fortress of Châtillon-on-Cluses its main home.

Administration

With the Middle Ages, Châtillon was the center of a Châtellenie of the Faucigny which counted at the 13th century thirteen parishes. In 1357, Châtillon is the center of mandement of Châtillon and Cluses.

Contrary to the other communes, it is in September 2002 that the election of Dominique Schott took place. The municipal elections of 2001 were indeed cancelled by the administrative court of Grenoble due to irregularities. The election of Andre Bonnaz was cancelled. Thereafter, large many irregulatities and of possible frauds were noted in the commune (licensiment abusive, losses of finances of the communes, frauds at the time of elections etc etc…)

Demography

At the 15th century, Châtillon shelters 80 fires. At the time of the passage of Saint-François Dirty, on August 10th, 1606, it counts 120 fires. In 1783, one counts 695 hearts. In 1801, the population is of 900 inhabitants and it reaches its optimum in 1838, with 1166 Cassandrins. They are nothing any more but 677 in 1911 and 470 in 1936. The level low is reached in 1946 with only 446 inhabitants. With the development of the basin of Cluses, the population since this date did not cease increasing.

Places and monuments

castle of Chatillon
Ruiné.
Dressé on a calcareous rock, eight hundred meters of altitude, controlling the collar of Châtillon, the intersection of the roads active on the one hand of Cluses to Taninges and of Samoëns to Bonneville, it made it possible to control the central part of the province of the Faucigny. The rock or remain the ruins of the castle is prolonged by an eminence called Cuar. That Ci would have been the site of a former fortification. Cuar is separated from the castle by a ditch which was cut in the rocher.
Le castle was composed of three successive enclosures. The first surrounded the lime pit-castle and the vault castrale. The second included/understood a square tower which protected the access to the castle. A rather stiff rise, made it possible to reach the door of the last enclosure which sheltered the court and the home of dwelling. At its Eastern end remain the vestiges of a Romance keep, of 6,60x7,70 meters on side, established vis-a-vis the attack. One is unaware of still the site of a third turn, built by Bonne of Berry at the end of the 14th siècle.
Initialement possession of the family of Châtillon, it passes to the hands Lords de Faucigny. About 1200, Aymon II of Faucigny gives up the castle of Contaminate-on-Arve to settle there. It will write its will in 1234 there. It bequeaths it to his daughter Agnès de Faucigny, whose husband II of Savoy], will do important work in 1260 there. Their daughter Béatrix of Savoy by marrying in 1253 Guigne VII, brings the castle to the dolphins of the Viennese who will keep it until 1355. The treated of Paris of January 5th, 1355 brings back the castle in the Savoyard bosom. The last heir to Béatrix, Jean of Trawl-nets-Arlay makes gift, on January 13rd, 1406, of the castle of Chatillon to the duke of Savoy Amédée VIII, which will name a lord of the manor there. He would have been destroyed in 1589 at the time of the Invasion of the Berneses and Genevois, but nothing proves that they arrived until Châtillon.

the communal room, named Room Beatrix in the honor of the duchess who resided at the castle

Personalities related to the commune

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