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Le château en bref
Montfort Castle is a former fortified castle located in the commune of Crolles, in Isère. First mentioned as early as 1069 in the Cartulary of Domène, it received a stone structure in the 12th century and became, at the beginning of the 14th century, the residence of Beatrice of Faucigny. A possession of the Dauphins of Viennois in the 13th century, it was described in detail by an inquiry of 1339, before being granted in fief by the Dauphin Humbert II to Amblard de Beaumont in 1343. The Beaumont family retained it until 1617; from 1717 it passed to the Guérin families, then to the Barral and Bernis families, who are its current owners. Today reduced to ruins partially overgrown by vegetation, it is the subject of archaeological excavations and partial consolidation work carried out by the association "Les Raisonneurs de pierre".