Situated below the hamlet of Cursinges, the château may have formed part of a defense and observation line with the château de Cervens and the Tour de Draillant.
The seigneury of Draillant included the fortified house there, rents in Allinges-Neuf and the rights to the forests of the Draillant and Montforchat mountains, granted by Amédée V in 1302 to a member of the de Draillant family, Riffier de Draillant. In the early 14th century, the Nobles of Compois acquired the property. They were feudatories of Faucigny, and Thomas de Compois was lord of Allinges-Vieux from 1317 to 1319.
