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Le château en bref
The Château de Munois, in Darcey (Côte-d'Or), is mentioned as early as 1295, when Pierre de Mailly and his daughter Marguerite sold the fief of Munois while reserving the 'maison forte de Munois' (fortified house), then owned by the lord of Mont-Saint-Jean. In 1315, the monk Aymon des Bordes refers to Guy de Munois, abbot of Saint-Germain d'Auxerre; in 1364, Amenion de Pommiers stayed on the estate. Jean II de Cussey acquired Darcey through his marriage to Jeanne de Beaujeu in 1445; in 1474, Demoiselle Chrétienne de Drée held the castle and three quarters of the lordship of the estate, with rights of justice and feudal dues. In 1774, the abbé Courtépée described it as 'Munois ou Mugnois, castel à haute tour' (a castle with a high tower). A square building with four wings around a courtyard, it retains a drawbridge, remains of a portcullis, two gateways with arrow slits, machicolations above each entrance and a square corner tower pierced with a gunport. The almost blind outer façade has only a single cruciform opening; a ditch survives to the north-east. It is privately owned and not open to visitors.