France · Restored
Château de la Rochepot
Château de La Rochepot is a historic castle in La Rochepot, Côte-d'Or, France, with medieval origins and major 15th-century rebuilding followed by an extensive late 19th–early 20th-century restoration. The restoration reinstated a multi-towered silhouette and glazed burgundy-tiled roofs. The château sits on a wooded rocky slope above surrounding vineyards and parkland.
Its prime
1919
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1919
What Château de la Rochepot looked like in its prime.
Long pale limestone main range set on a wooded rocky slope, punctuated by a large cylindrical tower with a tall conical slate roof at the east end and a square tower with a pyramidal patterned-tile roof at the west; a steep, multicoloured glazed tile roof in a diamond pattern spans the range, broken by triangular dormer windows, tall rectangular chimneys and several slender conical turrets and pinnacles; the château appears complete and intact, rising above trees and nearby vineyard terraces.
Its story
The story of Château de la Rochepot.
La Rochepot is a 12th-century feudal castle rebuilt in the 15th. It belonged to Alexander of Burgundy, seigneur de Montagu (1170–1205), son of Duke Hugh III of Burgundy, and in 1403 Régnier Pot, Chamberlain to Duke Philip the Bold, Knight of the Golden Fleece, newly returned from crusade, bought what was then called the Château de La Roche Nolay. Under Pot, Pinot noir grapes were planted in its vicinity, in application of Philip the Bold's decree of 1395.
In the 17th century the castle came by inheritance to Jean François Paul de Gondi, the Cardinal de Retz, who sold it in 1644 to Pierre Legoux de la Berchère, first President of the Parliament of Burgundy. Joseph Blancheton was the last lord of the castle; left without its keep, the domain passed from hand to hand.
An extensive restoration in the 19th century completely rebuilt the castle and covered it with the glazed burgundy tiles that define it today, reinstating a multi-towered neo-Gothic-Burgundian silhouette on its wooded rocky slope above the surrounding vineyards.
Step inside
7 places to explore in 1919.
The record describes 7 distinct spots at Château de la Rochepot, including the full exterior approach. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and explore every one, more scenes means more rooms, more angles, and more of the place to stand in.
Build Your Own Castle
Recreate Château de la Rochepot with AI to explore it.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1919, a photoreal reconstruction that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
Recreate this castle →Castle Siege
Play Castle Siege at Château de la Rochepot.
A strategy game played on Château de la Rochepot’s real ground plan: the same surveyed walls shown in the archive below. Post your finite garrison on the battlements between assaults, then hold out as rams, siege towers, trebuchets and sappers arrive in ever-worse waves.
Sign in free to see the garrison muster. One castle costs 150 Clan Coins and is yours forever.
Sign in to take command →Whose castle
Clans who held Château de la Rochepot.
The families that held Château de la Rochepot for a decade or more across its history, follow a name to its clan.
Burgundy
Belonged to Alexander of Burgundy, seigneur de Montagu (1170–1205), son of Duke Hugh III of Burgundy.
Pot
Bought in 1403 by Régnier Pot, Chamberlain to Duke Philip the Bold and Knight of the Golden Fleece.
From the archive
Château de la Rochepot on paper: the measured plan and period views.
The survey plan and photographs below are the ground truth this page's reconstructions are checked against, drawn and photographed while the castle was still a working garrison. Every image is public-domain or openly licensed, with its source named.
Zicht op La Rochepot, een dorp in de buurt van Beaune met een 13de- eeuws kasteel
1935 · National Archives of the Netherlands (via Europeana)
Public domain
