Château du Turchet

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Le château en bref

The Château du Turchet, whose pre-Celtic name denotes a high place, was the seat of one of the most important seigniories of Menthonnex-en-Bornes (Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes). Held from the earliest mentions by the family of Menthonay – of whom Aymon de Menthonay, Bishop of Geneva (1268–1275), was a distinguished member – the seigneury subsequently passed to the Viry family, then to the Menthon de Lornay family, then to Jean-Baptiste Anselme de Lorme in 1724 and to George Truchet in 1780. The site, which covers approximately 3,332 m², originally corresponded to a motte castle; only ruins remain, already recorded as such in 1730.