No. 86523
Château de Layé
France
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No. 85687
No. 85687 · 46.158 N, 4.859 E
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Château de Beaumont (Ain) is a château in France, listed as reference No. 85687.
Château de Beaumont (Ain) is a château in France with origins associated with the 14th century.
See all castles in FranceChâteau de Beaumont (Ain) stands in Saint-Étienne-sur-Chalaronne, France; the site was developed by medieval French feudal lords.
A fortified site on a raised earthwork is first recorded around 1330, when the fief and its castle were granted to Étienne de Laye by the sire de Beaujeu. In the later fourteenth century ownership passed to Pierre de Marmont in 1372 and then to Fromentin du Saix in 1374. The property remained in that lineage until Lionnet du Saix, who left it to his widow, Claudine de Ponceton. On 15 April 1571 Claudine de Ponceton donated the estate to her nephew, Lionnet de Challes, who subsequently sold it to Daniel Gilles, seigneur de Montezan.
In March 1626 the estate was seized and adjudged to Abraham Valier, conseiller at the parlement de Dombes. After that date the property moved through several families, passing to the Janin, de la Garde, Joli de Choin, Collabau and Trollier households. In 1759 Jean-Baptiste Trollier sold the estate to the underage heirs of the late Louis-Hector de Cholier, chevalier and comte de Cibeins; those heirs still held the property in 1789.
Through the eighteenth and into the nineteenth century the medieval fortress underwent several alterations. Around 1853 the medieval castle was demolished to make room for a new building, and the site was transformed into the present nineteenth-century château. On 5 July 2006 a formal decree protected specific elements of the ensemble as historic monuments.
Condition
The site combines a nineteenth-century château set on the location of an earlier medieval fortification raised on a motte, together with outbuildings, a garden complex and the historic parcel layout. The nineteenth-century house and associated structures occupy the ground where the medieval stronghold once stood; that medieval castle was removed around 1853 and the present residence dates to the mid-1800s.
The motte, cited about 1330, survives as the earthwork linked to the medieval phase and is included in the official protection. The medieval building that once crowned this raised mound was taken down about 1853. The motte and the surrounding parcel boundaries are part of the area safeguarded by the 2006 designation.
The standing château belongs to the nineteenth century and its exterior walls and roofs are explicitly covered by the inscription. Records note that the earlier fortress was repeatedly altered before its demolition and that the later edifice was erected on the cleared site; the protected designation applies to the château’s visible exterior and its roof structures.
The stables are protected in their entirety under the 2006 decree, recorded as an integral outbuilding group associated with the residence. A well within the grounds is also named among the protected elements, and the kitchen garden with its enclosing boundary and the garden pavilions are specifically inscribed, forming a linked service and leisure complex. The overall parcel layout of the estate is included in the protection, with the formal exclusion of a tennis court from that protected area.
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