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Le château en bref
The Château de Romprey, in the hamlet of Romprey, in Bure-les-Templiers (Côte-d'Or), was granted as a fief to the Knights Templar by Eudes de Grancey in 1203. In 1299, the widow of a lord of Grancey added the fief of Conclois and a castle; in 1474, the property came under the control of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem. The present château was built at the beginning of the 16th century by Edme Régnier, lord of Romprey and lieutenant general of the bailiwick. The wings were altered in the 18th–19th centuries, when the traditional tile roof was replaced with slate. In the Saint-Renobert chapel, built in 1500, wall paintings were uncovered during a restoration in 1933; its interior decoration was registered (inscrit) as a Monument historique in 1996 (Mérimée reference PA00118419). The building, on a U-shaped plan with four main ranges (corps de logis), has an almost blind north façade forming a curtain wall. Privately owned, it is not open to visitors.