The Clomot landscape has been inhabited since very early times.
The ancient Clos-Moux or Clos-Mol, from the Latin Clausum madidum, signifies a damp place, as it is surrounded by 7 ponds.
In 1231 the Assembly of Beaune gave the lands of Clomot to the Duke Hugues of Burgundy. Jehan de Roussillon built a fortified castle overlooking the pond, of which only one tower remains.

The church built in the XII century is very interesting with its apse decorated with small elegant columns.
At the same era another castle, the Buxillon, was built at where is now called " les Baudots ".
This is an enclosure marked by a ditch that still exists.

At the end of the XIV century Jehan of Roussay, native of Arconcey, became Chamberlain of the Duke of Orleans, built this castle and gave it his name.
It was at the same time a country house and the centre of a vast farm. In effect, the villages of Essey, Arconcey, Allerey, Mouillon, Avincey and Chatellenot were part of this local seigneury.

After a difficult succession, Toussay fell to the powerful Damas family at the end of the XVI century who possessed a great part of the Auxois region.
This was at the start of the religious wars and the famous Clomot battle said the Arnay battle opposing the Admiral Coligny on the protestant side against the Marshal of Cosse Brissac on the catholic side.

The protestant victor marched on Paris where the young Prince of Navarre, their leader, became the famous king Henry IV. The cross under which the dead were buried, called 'Chaume de Rétre', at the farm Bas de Liard still commemorates this famous battle. But the village suffered considerably: the church was burnt and the castles were partially destroyed.

Then Clomot fell by succession to Jean of Villerslafaye who married Madeleine of Bourbon of the powerful Bourbon family in 1626.
He restored the Roussay with the stones and ruins of the old Buxillon castle to what we see today.
Since this era the Villerslafaye family, whose motto is " faithful ", has left their mark on the village of Clomot.

The last marquis of Villerslafaye, Raoul, who passed away in 1936, was the mayor of Clomot for 50 years, for which he was decorated with the Legion of Honour.