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Origin and history

Château de Pymont, located in Boyer in Saône-et-Loire, overlooks the banks of the Natouse at the foot of the Mouron. Its current architecture is the result of several epochs: a 17th century central house body, flanked by unequal pavilions, and a south wing extended by two asymmetric towers (round and polygonal). The segmental arch or accolade lintel bays, as well as the stone pier leading to the first floor, show reshaping in the 18th and 19th centuries. The castle, a private property not open to the public, preserves a park crossed by the Natouse, arranged around 1870 in a romantic style.

The seigneury of Pymont was attested from the 13th century with the family of Vienna, which ensured its possession until the end of the 15th century. Hugues IV of Vienna was the first lord mentioned in 1270, followed by eight successive generations until Gérard de Vienne in 1486. In the 16th century, the fief passed into the hands of bourgeois families: Humbert Lapyrat in 1515, then Jeanne de Verjus, who brought him in dowry to Philibert Quarré and lawyer Jean Pelez. Major reconstruction took place in the 17th century under the family of Grenelle, before Jeanne de Grenelle passed it on in 1741 to the Aubel de la Genète by marriage.

In the 19th century, a grandson of the Aubel de la Genète, near Lamartine, modernized the castle by adding a neo-Gothic wing and developing the park. The estate then passed to the Rivérieulx de Varax through the marriage of Marie-Suzanne Aubel with Marie-Jules de Rivérieulx at the end of the 19th century. In the 20th century, the castle was successively owned by Henri de Rivérieulx and then by M. de Goussencourt. The coats of arms of the Vienna families (gold eagle on Gules), Quarré (silver and azure shredded) and Riverieulx (silver river on Azur) recall these successive lines.

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