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Le château en bref
Mornex Castle (or Mornay), probably built in the 12th century on the south-eastern slope of the Petit Salève (628 m above sea level) in the commune of Monnetier-Mornex, controlled the northern route of the County of Geneva. It was the seat of a châtellenie from the 14th to the 15th century, made up of three ‘sauteries’ (Sappey, Mornex, Mossier), and its arms were a gold St Andrew’s cross on a field azure. Bought by Count Amadeus II of Geneva, then incorporated into Savoy in 1401, it later passed to the Genève-Lullin family (1675) and was then raised to a marquisate for Thomas Granery (1682). Probably destroyed during the Bernese invasion of 1589–1590, it survives only as remains documented by the archaeologist Louis Blondel: defensive ditches, braie/barbacane walls and an irregular quadrilateral plan of about 85 m by 36–40 m.