Château-Gontier

Château- Gontier is a commune with 11,690 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the department of Mayenne in the Pays de la Loire; it is the administrative center for the district of Château- Gontier and cantonal Château- Gontier -Est and Château -Gontier -Ouest.

Toponymy

The community name is attested in 1037 in the form of Castrum Gunterii. Gontier was the owner of the castle from the 11th century.

The name of the former municipality Bazouges derives from the Latin word basilica ( meaning " market " or " Church " ) from. The shape Basilicas occurs first surfaced in 1037.

History

Middle Ages

The Count of Anjou Fulk III. Nerra gave the Dömäne Bazouges the Benedictines of the Abbey of Saint- Aubin d' Angers, the erected there the priory of Saint -Jean -Baptiste. To reinforce the border with Brittany, Fulk also decided to build a dungeon. In 1007 he entrusted the guarding Gontier, one of his vassals, to. This date is the same as the first documentary mention of the city.

Château- Gontier was in the following years, a barony in favor of Renaud I. The Barony of Château- Gontier has historically been of particular interest because their northern border often moved between the counties of Maine and Anjou. The civil and feudal rule of the Count of Anjou stretched before the 11th century after the Conquest right to the territory of Maine, at that time was the parish but already under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Mans ..

1343 held the state's monopoly on salt by a royal decree of Philip VI. , Who introduced the Gabelle, the tax on salt. Anjou was one of the Pays de grandes gabelles with the highest control and had 16 salt chambers, one of which was in Château- Gontier.

In 1368 the castle was destroyed by the British.

Renaissance

At the time of the Catholic League was Château- Gontier capital of Anjou and was granted the right to open Protestant temple. At the same time, the city was the seat of a 1577 Pays d' élection and a royal Seneschallats in 1595.

1628 Château- Gontier happened Cardinal Richelieu on his way back from La Rochelle to Paris and ordered the destruction of the castle ruins. 1639 was the second Seneschallat of Château -Gontier (dependance of Hauptseneschallats of Angers) seat of a Präsidialgerichts, which was responsible for crime and public law matters.

French Revolution

On November 11, 1789, the Constituent Assembly instructed the deputies of the old French provinces on the establishment of the new department vote.

The thirty deputies of the three provinces of Anjou, Maine and Touraine (which together formed the generals Tours) planned a part of their territory to cede Poitou and the remaining residual divided into four departments with the four traditional main cities of Tours, Angers, Le Mans and Laval. The latter occupied the territory of the provinces of Maine and Anjou, and included the Seneschallat of Château- Gontier, and the country of Craon.

1790, a portion of skin -Anjou (Château -Gontier and Craon ) of Anjou split off to form together with a part of the county of Maine, the department of Mayenne. Since then, this part of Haut- Anjou Mayenne angevine is called.

19th to 21st Century

1809 Château -Gontier merged with the municipalities Bazouges, Saint- Rémy and Azé. The latter as well as Bazouges were a few years later independently, whereas Saint -Remy 1813 merged with Saint-Fort.

Château- Gontier and Bazouges formed a commune in 1990 associée and merged in 2006.

Demographics

From 1962 only residents with a primary residence

Attractions

• Church of Saint -Jean -Baptiste restored in the 11th century, three apses completed cross floor plan, crypt under the choir, central bell tower from the 12th century, in the 19th century
• Genneteil chapel from the 12th century, now an exhibition of contemporary art (sculptures, engravings, paintings ... )
• Ruins from the 13th century
• Church of Saint- Rémi, built in the style of the 13th century, with a stone spire
• Chapel Moulinet on the territory of the former municipality Bazouges, built in the 16th century
• Ursuline Convent, built in the 17th century to a country house from the 15th Century
• Eglise de la Trinité (17th century), church of the former Ursuline convent
• Olivier Augustinian monastery was founded in the 17th century by Hospital Sisters from Dieppe and was from 1674 to 1982 in the service of the Hospital Saint -Julien. The monastery is a member of the Hospitallers Regularkanonissen of the mercy of Jesus
• Hôtel Saint- Julien, with a chapel from the 17th century
• Museum of Art and Archaeology, housed in a hotel from the 17th century, has ancient, medieval and contemporary collections
• Café de la Mairie, the interior decoration is a work of the Lorraine Schuller ceramists from Sarreguemines and the painter Pierre -Louis Richard and was built between the years 1900 and 1904. Café is a listed building since 1990.

Ursuline convent

Half-timbered house in the Grande Rue

Ceramics from the Café de la Mairie

Twinning

• Murrhardt, Germany, since 1966
• Frome, Great Britain, since 1975
• Rabka- Zdroj Poland, since 2009

Personalities

• Tancrède Abraham, painter
• Jean Arthuis, Mayor of Château- Gontier, later Senator, Secretary of State, Minister of Development and Economic and Finance Ministers
• Jean Bourre, Trésorier Louis XI.
• Claude Pompidou Claude Jacqueline Cahour born ( November 13, 1912; † July 3, 2007 in Paris), wife of Georges Pompidou
• Lucie Delarue - Mardrus, writer
• Louis de Farcy, historians
• Paul de Farcy, historians
• Émile Lemonnier (1893-1945) General
• Marius Lepage (1902-1972), writer
• Marie -Sophie de Leroyer Chantepie, writer
• Charles Loyson (1791-1819), poet
• François Pervis ( born 1984 ), track cyclist
• Olivier Peslier, Jockey
• Alexis Roger (1814-1846), composer