Located 6 km south of Corbigny along the RD 985, castle Marcilly is perched on a bluff overlooking an ancient ford of the Yonne, the fortress of the fifteenth century, is located in finage Cervon in the borough of Clamecy, Canton Corbigny in Nièvre, in the Morvan region of Burgundy, in front of a nice bridge for crossing the road Clamecy Luzy. You can go on the side of Cervon a beautiful avenue, the old trees, a closed iron gate, which leads to the courtyard after crossing a stone bridge, spanning a dry moat.
History.
Castle built in the mid-fifteenth century by Jean de Salazart, English nobleman, Baron of the place. It is triangular and composed of various buildings, forming with its tusks, a quadrilateral with four all angles. The main body of the house, in 1865 was flanked by two towers and two horsemen, cul-de-lamp. Reprinted in the first half of the eighteenth century (particularly the construction of the commons), very altered in the nineteenth and twentieth century, during the years 1915 and 1970. On the tympanum of the door honor, are the remains of an unpolished badge, arms of the lords. The high walls are lined with stunners, which form as the entablature. A belt of walls, fortified with several towers, two of which still exist, and preceded by ditches, which we crossed a drawbridge, protected on three sides, while the Yonne defended each other. Such is the description we give quen Baudiau Fr.
was the seat of a barony, with high, medium and low justice. She moved into part of the Abbey of Saint-Léonard Corbigny in 1443 and belonged to Jean de Salazart, who sold it to pay the castellany Toucy, he had just acquired, to Jean Bondault or Boudault, esquire, lord of Tavenault and Bruys, Bailiff and governor of Chateau-Chinon. It has not had seed Damis his wife Antoinette, bequeathed the manor to Pierre Leroy of Diamonds, his nephew who had in 1508.
In 1540, this land was owned by Paul La Forest, whose granddaughter, Anne, married Peter II Leroy Alarde Baron, who lived in 1650, a widow, she remarried to Louis Jaucourt, sire Domecy-sur-Cure and DOURDAY. She will be buried in the church of Cervon in 1696. From this union were born: Pierre-Jean-Louis Eustace, lord of Marcilly of Cuy of Frétoy; Nicolas-François, Sieur de Carreau (Carrault) and Cuzy. Jean Antoine de Mesgrigny and Britain, said they were also lords of Marcilly in 1680.
Charles Leroy of Diamonds, sold his portion of the barony, with the consent of Beauquerre Joan, his wife, January 15, 1710, for 13,500 pounds, Jacques-Louis de Mesgrigny, Earl of Aunay and Villebertin , lord of Souleau, High Bailiff of Troyes sword. The latter married Charlotte Priest, daughter of Marshal Vauban, who brought him the barony of Epiry, the lordships of Cervon, La Chaume ... From their union were born in other, Jean Mesgrigny Charles, Count of Aunay Epery Baron, Lieutenant généralk the Armies of the King, Inspector of Fortifications of France, and Pierre-Antoine, Abbot of Cervon, lord of Marcilly, where he resided in 1729. The first daughter, Marie-Claude Aimée de Mesgrigny, porta Marcilly and other property from her home, Louis Le Pelletier Rosembo, President mortar Parliament of Paris, an old family door
* Arms
"Azure, a cross silver paste, laden heart of a chevron gules flanked by two wheels spur of sand and pointed, of a rose, buttoned gold "
* Currency
" In cruce spes robur and "
Louis died in 1760, leaving two son, Louis II, married to Miss de Malesherbes, and Charles-Louis David, which his grandfather, Jean-Charles de Mesgrigny, assured the County Aunay, provided he would take the name and arms that were:
* Arms
"Argent, a lion passing Sandy "
This Flavie married Elisabeth de Chastenet, granddaughter of Jacques Francois de Chastenet Puysegur, Marquis, Marshal of France, she gave her three son and one daughter.
The younger brother, Louis-Hector Etienne, Count of Aunay, came early to Defence, "the school of Auxerre, he had to leave at the time of the Revolution. He was mayor of Paris under the First Empire, elected to several occasions during the Restoration and the Government of Louis Philippe, and President of the General Council of Nièvre. From his union with Angelica Maria Adelaide Romagnat Warrior, he married in 1800, came eight children: Ernest, advisor to the Imperial Court of Paris; Theobald, cavalry captain, Raoul, Lieutenant Commander; Honoré-Joseph-Octave following; Delia, married to Louis de Givry, Felicia; Hectorine, who married Eugène-Elie de Beaumont, Louise, wife of Alexander Pracomtal branch of Normandy. He died January 10, 1851, aged 74, and his wife January 25, 1864.
Their fourth son, Count Joseph-Octave Honore Le Peletier Aunay officer of the Legion of Honor, member of the legislative body, member of the General Council of Nièvre Cervon mayor, owned the castle in 1865, where he resided. It is described by his contemporaries as a man caring, obliging and recognized religious virtues. He married Renee Adele La Ferriere, he had a daughter, Adelaide Louise.
Ground floor.
The main building at ground and upper ground floor is flanked by two round towers with one located in the Southwest, seems to be the oldest. The base is made of a vaulted room, round whose gun embrasures were was transformed into windows. Included a staircase in the wall allows access to the floor. Tower Northwest includes the same provisions as the previous architecture in terms of its base. The windows were enlarged in the eighteenth century.
The facade of the courtyard has a gate in the center of each end of the seventeenth century and has a corbelled turret equipped with a stairway.
This level consists of four large vaulted rooms of edges, one has a staircase connecting the first floor. The wing built at right angles is a realization of the nineteenth century engloble in part one of the towers rebuilt.
First Floor.
The curtains were removed in the eighteenth century, without touching the old corner towers that still exist.
attic.
the eighteenth century, they are equipped and drilled hipped dormer windows on one level on one side and two on the other side.
Chapel.
On the terrace in the south, stood a chapel destroyed in 1792.
Features.
The guns are memories he keeps taking Philipsburg, Vauban given by the Grand Dauphin. Many memories of Marshal Vauban are kept there.
Paries protected.
The common, the Chapel of the seventeenth century, the interiors (cadastre.F 527, 591), protected since November 8, 1996.
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