France · Ruin
Château de Sigy-le-Châtel
The Château de Sigy-le-Châtel is a ruined medieval fortress on a rocky outcrop above a pass in Saône-et-Loire, France. Only stretches of curtain wall, the bases of large circular towers with cannon positions and a corner of a brick building with a bartizan remain; the site is privately owned and not open to the public.
Its prime
1600
Today
Ruin
As it stood in 1600
What Château de Sigy-le-Châtel looked like in its prime.
Perched on a rocky outcrop above a pass, the castle formed an irregular enceinte of thick pale limestone curtain walls. The entrance to the north was flanked by fortified semicircular towers; elsewhere the walls terminate in the low bases of two large circular towers pierced by cannon positions. Vegetation grows into gaps; at the western end a corner of a brick-built structure rises with a projecting bartizan. The overall silhouette is broken and irregular against the skyline.
Its story
The story of Château de Sigy-le-Châtel.
First recorded in the 10th century, Sigy-le-Châtel is one of the oldest castles in the Mâconnais, rebuilt in the 12th century on a rocky outcrop dominating a pass. Renaud de Luzy was seigneur in 1203; in 1266 the lordship passed with Sybille de Luzy's marriage to Archambaud de Sauzet, seigneur de Chanay, whose son Humbert succeeded them at the end of the century.
The seigneury moved on through marriages, Jean de Marzé by 1361, Hugues de Trezettes, husband of Guillemette de Marzé, by 1373, until Philibert de La Guiche held it from 1560. When his daughter Marie-Henriette married Louis-Emmanuel d'Angoulême, grandson of King Charles IX, in 1629, the fortress was abandoned, later returning by succession to the La Guiche family. Amable-Charles, marquis de La Guiche, last seigneur of Sigy, was guillotined in 1794.
Only fragments remain: stretches of the thick curtain walls of its irregular enceinte, the bases of two large circular towers pierced with cannon positions, and at the western end the corner of a brick building with a bartizan. The site is privately owned and not open to the public.
Step inside
7 places to explore in 1600.
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Clans who held Château de Sigy-le-Châtel.
The families that held Château de Sigy-le-Châtel for a decade or more across its history, follow a name to its clan.
Luzy
Seigneurs of Sigy by 1203 under Renaud de Luzy, until the lordship passed by marriage to the Sauzets in 1266.
Sauzet
Held from 1266, when Archambaud de Sauzet married Sybille de Luzy, dame de Sigy, into the early 14th century.
La Guiche
Seigneurs from 1560; Amable-Charles, marquis de La Guiche, last seigneur of Sigy, was guillotined in 1794.
