 In the Middle Ages it was the owner of a vast territory covering the greater part of the present communes of Cerniat and Charmey, over which by right of its lordship it exercised the high and the low justice.It was destroyed by fire in 1381.In 1454 it passed into the lordship of the County of Greyerz, with which it passed again in 1535 to the city of Fribourg.