Le château de Chazey-sur-Ain est un ancien château fort, fondé au xiie siècle par les sires de Coligny, remanié au xve siècle et restauré au xixe siècle, centre de la seigneurie de Chazey, qui se dresse sur la commune de Chazey-sur-Ain dans le département de l'Ain en région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Le château fait l’objet d’une inscription au titre des monuments historiques par arrêté du 18 février 1987.
Situation
Le château se dresse dans le département français de l'Ain sur la commune de Chazey-sur-Ain dans la partie la plus élevée du bourg.
Histoire
La seigneurie de Chazey, qui était en toute justice est à l'origine la possession des sires de Coligny. Au début du xiiie siècle, Béatrix de Coligny la porte en dot à Albert III de la Tour du Pin qui la laisse à son fils Humbert, dauphin de Viennois. Elle est donnée en 1349 par Humbert II, dernier dauphin de Viennois, au roi Philippe VI de Valois.
À la suite du traité de Paris du 5 janvier 1355, le roi Jean et le dauphin, son fils, la cède, par voie d'échange, au comte Amédée VI de Savoie. Ce dernier l'inféode à Jean, seigneur de Crangeac (Attignat), chevalier. Lui succédèrent d'abord Antoine, son fils aîné, puis Pierre, son deuxième fils. À sa mort, en 1439, sans descendant, sa femme Jeanne de Varax retient la seigneurie pour ses reprises dotales. Elle la laissera à son neveu Georges de Varax qui en reçoit l'inféodation en 1441. Ce dernier la remet le 24 janvier 1462, à Philippe II de Savoie, comte de Bâgé, qui la donne à sa fille Philiberte de Savoie, femme de Julien de Médicis, duc de Nemours. Sans descendance Philiberte institue comme héritier son frère Charles, duc de Savoie né le 10 octobre 1486 dans ce château, alors nommé « château de Chazey-en-Bugey ».
Les ducs de Savoie conservèrent la seigneurie unie à leur domaine, jusqu'à Emmanuel-Philibert, qui en 1571 la remet à Jacques de Savoie, duc de Nemours. Ce dernier la vend avec clause de réméré, le 7 août 1580, à Bénigne Pastey, trésorier et Receveur général des finances, puis le 30 juin 1615, à Renaud de Cremeaux, seigneur de la Grange, de Saint-Urbain et de Charnay, maître de camp d'infanterie et dont les descendants la gardèrent jusqu’à la convocation des États généraux.
Chapelle castrale
Au xve siècle il existait à Chazey, non loin de l'église paroissiale, une chapelle sous le vocable de Notre-Dame-de-Pitié, fondée par les anciens seigneurs du château et qui n'avait, pour toute dotation, qu'une rente de dix écus. En 1655, il ne s'y faisait aucun service.
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Le château réédifié sur les débris de l’antique résidence est restauré au xixe siècle.

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The Château des Allymes is a thirteenth-century castle which was rebuilt in the sixteenth century and restored in the nineteenth. It is located in the hamlet of Les Allymes, in the Ambérieu-en-Bugey commune in the Ain department of France, in the Rhône-Alpes region.
The castle was built by the Dauphin of Viennois to protect the people from attacks that were ravaging the country. It is approached by the hamlet of Brey-de-Vent, and is the only example of a medieval fortress in Bugey.
On the 20th of July 1960 the Château des Allymes was classed a monument historique.
Location
The location of the castle gives it an exceptional view of the plain of Bresse and the Dombes. The castle overlooks the plain of Ain from a height of some 800 m, and is to the south-west of Mount Luisandre. It commands a view of the Ambérieu-en-Bugey commune, to which it has belonged since 1984.
History
The Château des Allymes became French by the Treaty of Lyon in 1601 when Henri IV succeeded in reuniting Bugey to the Kingdom of France. At the time it was in a strategic military position as it was near the border with Savoy, which was then an independent state.
First conquered by the counts of Savoy, the castle passed to René de Lucinge, the Savoyard ambassador to the French king. Lucinge, a man of letters and historian, left records about his life and his work on the surrounding wall of the castle.
The castle was built around 1310 to fight the Savoyard influence. It was initially built principally of earth and wood. A few years later, a truce between the two parties forbade the building of new structures. The truce was little respected, however, and each side hurried to build stone castles. The masters of this work in Allymes were the master-masons "Peronner" and "Guillemet d'Hières".
The Delphino-Savoyard war was finished in 1335 by the transfer of the Château des Allymes, commanded by the châtelain "Guy de Lutin", to the count of Savoy. The king of France John the Good; his son Charles, dauphin of Viennois; and the count Amadeus VI of Savoy ratified the definitive peace treaty of the 5th of January 1335, signed in Paris. The frontier was thenceforward moved to the banks of the Rhône which relegated the Château des Allymes to the interior of the kingdom, losing it its strategic value. The count of Savoy, Amadeus VI split the seigneury of Saint-Germain and restored the stronghold to François Nicod in 1354, who thus became the owner of the castle. On the 16th of September 1477, Claudine François married d'Humbert de Lucinge, and the Lucinge family took possession of the fortress.
When the castle again became French in 1601, René de Lucinge swore allegiance to the French king Henri IV. The castle passed successively to the Suduyraud, and Etienne families, and finally the Dujat family, the last proprietors before the Revolution. The castle fell into disrepair until a descendent of the Dujats, Adolphe de Tricaud d'Ambérieu, undertook its restoration in 1847. The curtain walls were rebuilt and re-equipped with a covered way, and the round tower was recovered.
In 1959, the De Tricaud family sold the castle to Mr Peyre before its classification as a historical monument in 1960. In 1964, a first phase of work restored the keep and the Gothic quarters. The roof and frame of the round tower were restored in 1977, the four curtain walls in 1984 and finally the barbican at the main entrance in 1991. The castle has been the object of many excavation and restoration programs.
The castle has been the property of the village of Ambérieu-en-Bugey since 1984, and is managed and maintained by an association of friends of the castle.
Description
The Château des Allymes is representative of the medieval stone castle—a large ancient stronghold, firmly built on the side of a hill and commanding the plain below. It also has two towers, connected by curtain walls. The exterior consists of a large wall 90 metres (300 ft) long terminating in a lookout tower that once protected an adjoining town.
The quadrangular enclosure of the castle is flanked by a large cylindrical donjon of the Roman type and by a round tower connected by four curtain walls. This section dates from 1351.
The inside is also not without interest, including Gothic living quarters, the donjon, beautiful halls with well-preserved woodwork, and a restored barbican defending the entrance.

Château des Allymes

Château de Varambon is a castle of the eighteenth century remodeled in the nineteenth century that stands in the municipality of Varambon in the Ain department in the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. It succeeded several high buildings on the site, a first castle erected around the year Mil Varambon by the Sire de la Palud and was the center of the Lordship of Varambon. The castle is the subject of a registration as a historic monument by order of 5 November 2007. The castle park is the subject of a pre-inventory the remarkable gardens.The original castle was built by the lord of La Palud to Varembon Year MIL4. Varembon This was perhaps the father of Pierre La Palud, knight, lord of Varambon 1150, father himself of Stephen, Gui and William of La Palud. The latter, provost of Fourvières, bequeathed in 1243 to Guy, his nephew, Canon of Lyons, possessions he has in the heritage land of his family. Ayme La Palud, son of Girard, great-grand-son of Pierre de la Palud, is recognized in 1300 by the abbot of Ambronay and in 1302 Humbert of Luyrieux Morestel Lord in Revermont, and by Robert Berard, tutor of Molissole temple, rights by the inhabitants of Varambon on pastures from River Ain.The Lordship of Varambon remain for more than five centuries in the family of La Palud. Jean de La Palud, Count de Varax, died Jan. 9, 1544, forward to his two daughters, Marie and Françoise, one wife of René, Count of Chalant, another wife of Ferdinand de Lannoy. Marie and Françoise de La Palud décédèrent leaving no children. Claude Rie, their mother gathered their rich estate and erected in marquisate by Duke Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy, March 9, 1576, the land of Varambon and its dependencies, it bequeaths, June 23, 1593, to Marc de Rie, his nephew. At the death of Francois de Rie, Marquis of Varambon, the king gives his marquisate to Gaspard de la Croix, Count of Castres, who gave it to Christine Claire Haraucourt, François widow of Rie, 1641. Ferdinand on May 24 Rie sells, June 3, 1655, to Pierre Perrachon, adviser to the king. March 20, 1756, Louis Guichard Perrachon heir quality of Jean-Baptiste-Marie Perrachon Nanteuil, his uncle, alienates Jean-François Balland of Augustebourg, esquire, lord of Courbonnet in Normandy in whose family it was still in 1789.The former castle of Varambon was razed in 1451 by order of Duke Louis of Savoy, who will then give 12 thousand crowns to rebuild. According to a count provided in 1603, the castle, rebuilt in the fifteenth century, was that "in a main building and two small towers without ditches or drawbridge. ". The town beneath was "closed by walls and two doors without drawbridge." In 1595, during the wars that preceded the conquest of Bresse by Biron, the castle and the village were ransacked. "Most of the houses and buildings of that village, has the same count, are ruined and burned and subjects almost all dead and those who remained, poor and miserable, fourteen in number." It will be again destroyed in 1595 and rebuilt in 1756 and restored in 1855. The present castle is the fourth building can be built at this location. The building is registered as historical monuments in 2007.
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