Castles and chateaux of old Burgundy and the border provinces (1909)
Mansfield, Milburg Francisco, 1871- [from old catalog] · Boston, L. C. Page & company · leaf 340
e ancient resi-dence of the Comtes de Genevois, but in 1401the seigniory passed to the house of Savoy.Eobert de Geneve, known to ecclesiastical his-tory as Pope Clement VII, the first of the Avi-gnon Popes, was born here in 1342. The military history of the Chateau dAn-necy is intimately bound up… … Annecy and Lac Leman 261 dians of the chateau together were thus enabledto throw off the troops which turned back onAnnecy after the defeat at Conflans in 1537, butno resistance whatever was made to Henri IVand his followers, who entered without a blowbeing dealt, and found the inhabitants,…
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