“Poly, Sire of Marigna, acknowledges to hold the Marigna Castle in fief of Renaud of Burgundy”
In the 13th century, the Lordship of Marigna belonged to the Châlons Jean the Ancient.
Two highwaymen (former mercenaries turned into bandits) seized the High-Castel and its estate of Petit Marigna. One remained there, while the second erected a square tower, the current bell tower, on the motte of Planège where the village is today.
The two chiefs and their soldiers abandoned both estates and returned to Dauphine. The High-Castel then fell to the Vaugrigneuse family, and in 1555 to the Balay family.
At the time, it consisted of (Rousset): (...) a structure under which a vaulted portal communicated with the court, an irregular court, two other buildings adjacent to the previous one and a dungeon in the form an irregular pentagon (...) A stone and iron fence closed the entrance to a beautiful avenue. A large circular tower pierced with loopholes guarded the southeast corner of the castle. There was a similar one at the opposite corner.
The door is still adorned with crows that support many machicolations. It was preceded by a wide moat, above which a drawbridge hung (...)
Construction of the round tower known as Rosay, in the Planège. The Fauchiers, who resided there, were under the vassalage of the Lord of Balay (High Castel)
A crime was perpetrated against the person of Claude du Balay by the Fauchier’s “people”; Fauchier flew and his property was sequestered.
The building of Loft and the Chapel was one of the last wishes of the murder victim.
Birth of the village of Marigna sur Valouse: the inhabitants had only one lord.
Burning down of the Rosay tower by the troops of Henry IV.
