Château de Loriol

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History

Until 1743, the land and castle of Loriol named Anières, after the name of their first known possessors. These appear from the 12th century onwards (Hugo de Asnéria around 1100, Umbertus de Asnériis in 1186). The first known document mentioning a castle is an act of Count Aimé of Savoy, dated 1306, authorising Guérric de Sachins, holder of the fief of Anières "to hold a fortified house". In 1442, Duke Louis of Savoy gives permission to Galois de Sachins "to have a tower raised in addition to the three which already existed". It thus appears that the castle took its definitive plan, as represented in later documents, in the middle of the 15th century (keep and three towers). The 16th century saw some campaigns of work, but these did not modify it. Thus, before the Loriol settled there (1568), the chapel, located in the keep, is decorated. One of the ceiling joists bears the date 1543. Following the conflict between the Loriol, then co-lords and a Lady of Feurs, an order requires "a wall to be erected in the castle courtyard" and "windows overlooking the courtyard to be blocked". Jean de Loriol united the lordship at the beginning of the 17th century, but no document from the late 16th and 18th centuries allows us to know whether work was carried out. A plan of 1735 presents it to us in a configuration which appears to have been its own in the 15th century, but no document from the late 15th century confirms this general appearance; it is confirmed by engravings and a plan from the first quarter of the 19th century. It appears that the 18th century brought its share of work, even if it was only simple embellishments. In 1740, a document mentions the work of plasterers at the castle to reduce false windows and their attics. There remain currently on one of the façades of the keep the traces of render reproducing a feigned architectural décor, and a model of the castle, undated, shows it with classical opening of its façades and covered with render. It is probable that the then castellan, Louis du Port de Loriol, who was président à mortier at the parliament of Burgundy and provost of the city of Paris, wished to embellish his dwelling. He saw his land erected into a county in 1743. Remodelled in the 19th century in the neogothic style. Sources: Guichenon, Histoire de Bresse et du Buguey, 1650 Silans, de Léonce, Histoire de Loriol. Martin Charles, Drawings and washes, Archives départementales de l'Ain, no call number. Archives of Loriol (plan of 1735, old photographs, etc).