Château de Saint-André

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Le château en bref

Château de Saint-André, in Briord in the Ain department, is a 13th-century fortress built on a site of older origin (Merovingian inscriptions survive there). First held by the Briord family (11th century), it passed to the Dauphiné in 1257 and then to Savoy in the 14th century; Guy de Groslée received it as a fief from Count Amadeus VI, after which it passed by marriage to the Viry family and was then acquired by Sébastien de Montbel in the 16th century. Jacqueline de Montbel d'Entremont brought it to Gaspard II de Coligny upon their marriage in 1571, before it devolved to the Haraucourt family. Destroyed at the end of the 16th century by Biron's troops during the conquest of Bresse and Bugey, it now survives only as ruins. The site's Merovingian inscriptions have been listed as a monument historique since 1862 (reference PA00116352).