A manuscript dating from the XII century mentions that a Lady made a donation of her “40 man” estate to HUMBERT III, the Lord of Beaujeu: Le Clos de Brouilly was then ceded to the Saint-Irénée cannonesses of Belleville.
The first part of the manor; which would later be called Château Thivin was build in the XIV century. The date 1383 can still be seen today above the door of the little cellar.

Then the marquis of Vichy was the owner until the French revolution. After that it was sold as national property to a parliamentary lawyer: Mr Thivind, who gave it the name it carries today. My ancestor; Zaccharie GEOFFRAY, who was a farmer near Villefranche sur Saône, bought the estate in a sale on 8 th June 1877. In the year when the frost was hard and phylloxera raged. At that time Château Thivin had a little less than 2 hectares of vines. From 1894 his son, Claude, greatly enlarged the estate in buving vines and houses.

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