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The Château de Villarzel, in the Vaudois Broye region, was the seat of a châtellenie belonging to the Bishop of Lausanne. A castrum was built there under Bishop Berthold de Neuchâtel (1212–1220), and then Bishop Boniface had fortifications erected between 1231 and 1239. An episcopal châtelain is attested from 1248, and the peace between the bishop and Louis II of Savoy-Vaud was signed there in 1316. After the Bernese conquest of 1536, Villarzel remained the centre of a châtellenie within the bailiwick of Moudon. Only the tower built against the enceinte, restored at the end of the sixteenth century, and some sections of wall survive; the tower served as the gateway to the town.