The Château de Dyo is a ruined
castle
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in the ''
commune
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Administrative-territorial entities
* Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township
** Communes of ...
'' of
Dyo in the
Saône-et-Loire
Saône-et-Loire (; Arpitan: ''Sona-et-Lêre'') is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in France. It is named after the rivers Saône and Loire, between which it lies, in the country's central-eastern part.
Saône-et-Loire is Bo ...
''
département
In the administrative divisions of France, the department (french: département, ) is one of the three levels of government under the national level ("territorial collectivity, territorial collectivities"), between the regions of France, admin ...
'' of France. The castle stands on a hill in the village.
Description
Of the large ''
enceinte
Enceinte (from Latin incinctus: girdled, surrounded) is a French term that refers to the "main defensive enclosure of a fortification". For a castle, this is the main defensive line of wall towers and curtain walls enclosing the position. For ...
'' that once surrounded the summit of the hill, only stretches of the southern wall now remain - perhaps the part of the original castle itself. The bases of three circular towers are visible. To the west stands a high gate tower of almost square plan, pierced with a few openings, which seems to have been built in the 13th century. Residential buildings and barns - some built on the bases of the curtain walls - and vegetable gardens occupy the ''enceinte''.
The castle is private property and not open to the public.
History
Occupation of the site seems to date back to the
Carolingian
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era.
* End of 11th century: the
fiefdom
A fief (; la, feudum) was a central element in medieval contracts based on feudal law. It consisted of a form of property holding or other rights granted by an overlord to a vassal, who held it in fealty or "in fee" in return for a form o ...
belonged to the Dyo (or Dio) family.
[Jean-Marie Jal, ''Les châteaux du Brionnais Xe-XVIIIe'', Histoire et patrimoine rural en Bourgogne du Sud No. 7, Les Éditions du Centre d'études des patrimoines - Pays Charolais-Brionnais, Saint-Christophe-en-Brionnais, 2013, , p. 37. ]
* 1336: with the marriage of Guyot de Dyo and Alix Palatin, the Dyos added Palatin to their name.
* Middle of the 17th century: by marriage, Marie-Élisabeth Palatin de Dyo took the seigneurie to Louis-Antoine-Hérard (family of Damas d'Anlezy).
* 1789: Marie-Angélique de Gassion, widow of Louis Damas d'Anlezy, was owner.
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* 18th century: the castle fell into ruins.
* Middle of the 20th century: renovations to the ]keep
A keep (from the Middle English ''kype'') is a type of fortified tower built within castles during the Middle Ages by European nobility. Scholars have debated the scope of the word ''keep'', but usually consider it to refer to large towers in c ...
and part of the fortifications.
Image:Blason famille fr Dyo.svg,
Image:Blason Maison de Damas.svg,
See also
* List of castles in France
This is a list of castles in France, arranged by Region and Department.
;Notes:
# The French word ''château'' has a wider meaning than the English ''castle'': it includes architectural entities that are properly called palaces, mansions or vine ...
References
Bibliography
* VIGNIER Françoise (sous la dir. de) : ''Le Guide des Châteaux de France, 71 Saône-et-Loire'', Editions Hermé, Paris, 1985.
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Ruined castles in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Saône-et-Loire
House of Damas