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Again in the family of the counts de Thy de Milly in 1817, Berzé becomes a pleasant house: increase of windows, renovation of the seigneurial lodging house which does not keeps any more the primitive levels. …
  
A cartulaire of Cluny of the year 991 mentions a castrum built above a chapel. Berzé is quoted at the beginning of X°siècle. Vassal family of Kings of France, buried in the Holy abbey Philibert de Tournus, the Lords of Berzé had the rights of high and low justice on their lands. In 1229, under St Louis's reign, the Sire Hugues of Berzé transformed the castrum into fortified town to protect the abbey of Cluny
During the One hundred years war, the castle is a competed stake. Given to the Burgundians in 1417, taken in 1420 by Armagnacs comen from Lyonnais, hanging their attack of Mâconnais, reconquested by Duke Philippe le Bon in 1424, it undergoes in 1471 the assault of the troops of Louis XI but remained between the Burgundian hands.
  
The influence of the Renaissance is not visible. Berzé has still its military character: donjon, bartizan, covered way, archères … In the second half of XVI ° century, it played an important role during the League which devasted the country.
  
After the war, Berzé is abandoned during more than two centuries and undergoes the ruin. Lamartine so evoked it: " sometimes enlightened by an orange-coloured sunbeam, sometimes of the environment of fogs, an old castle in ruins, surounded with its turrets and with its towers …"
  
History
Médiéval Castel of Berzé