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Le château en bref
Caylus Castle, at Vezels-Roussy in the Cantal, is a ruined medieval fortified site, set on the puech de la Tour (about 646 m) above the hamlet of Caylus. It was held of the viscounts of Carlat. An agreement of 1206 between Guillaume de Vigouroux and Henri Ier, Count of Rodez and Viscount of Carlat, mentions the castles of Caylus, Saint-Christophe and Branzac, and in 1266 Guillaume de Vigouroux and his brother Guibert did homage for the castle and the tower of Caylus. The site was united with the Crown under Philip the Fair, after which the English seized it in 1360. Its demolition was ordered in 1579 by M. de Canilhac. The fief then passed to the Giou family, one branch of which took the name Caylus.