[1] It was purchased in 1553 by Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine, a member of the House of Guise.

[1][4] Prince Albert I of Monaco married Lady Mary Victoria Hamilton at the château in 1869.

In 1927, Léon-Honoré Labande, the archivist of the Prince's Palace of Monaco, authored Le château et la baronnie de Marchais.

During the Battle of France, Louis II, Prince of Monaco, remained in possession of the chateau until forced to leave by the advance of German troops on May 17, 1940.

In the mid-1980s, Prince Rainier III of Monaco acquired a herd of camels, an African buffalo and two guanacos from a bankrupt zoo, and placed them at the château.