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Le château en bref
Château de Mirebeau, at Mirebeau-sur-Bèze (Côte-d'Or), is a fortress now in ruins whose history goes back at least to 1031, the year in which King Robert II laid siege to a castle that had by then become a refuge for marauding lords. Exchanged in 1216 by the Duke of Burgundy for the castle of Vergy and the hand of his sister, it passed in 1361 to Guillaume de Vergy after an inheritance dispute, before being taken by the English in 1364. Jeanne de Vergy ceded her share in 1383 to Jean, seneschal of Burgundy. Plundered in 1493 and then restored by Philippe Chabot, it was taken by the Catholic League under the Baron de Senessey in 1591 and demolished in 1636; the surrounding buildings were then burned in 1643. All that remains today is a ten-metre-high motte, traces of rectangular foundations, round corner towers and two sections of curtain wall, maintained by local volunteers.