Arthès

Arthès is a common Frenchwoman of approximately 2 200 inhabitants, located in the department of the Tarn and the area the Midday-Pyrenees.

Geography

Country house built in the north of the department of the Tarn, belonging to the Agglomeration of Albi, the village of Arthès is located at the foot of a circus of slopes formed by the last ramifications of the the Cevennes, in a zone which makes the transition between the mountain and the plain. It is starting from this point that the Tarn becomes navigable.

History

Arthès is a country house of the Albigensian founded at the 14th century by Robert d' Artois, count de Beaumont, on Right Bank of the Tarn, with the foot of a circus of slopes formed by the last buttresses of the the Cevennes.

The discovery of a Roman Monnaie of the time of the emperor Auguste in 1924 makes it possible to suppose that this site was at the time a Oppidum, built, between the double escarpment of the two brooks which frame it before being thrown in the Tarn, by the Roman armed come to occupy the Gaulle after his conquest by Jules César.

The foundation of the country house, at the beginning of the 14th century, was not easy matter to achieve, because it raised a sharp opposition on behalf of Sicard II of Lescure, lord of Lescure and sound Suzerain, the Pape Jean XXII. The October 2nd 1318, they addressed vigorous protests to the Sénéchal of Toulouse, Béraud de Solomiac, because of the intentions of the count de Beaumont, to found a country house in this place.

The business will last ten years. Robert d' Artois will arrive despite everything to his ends, while melting, in 1328, this country house - which could appear like an encroachment and a parcelling out of this Fief of the the Holy See - after the ratification of the project, in March 1328, by the King de France Philippe VI of Valois.

The charter of foundation was preserved - it is currently with the Préfecture Tarn - and it provides invaluable information on the organization of the country house to its beginnings. It stipulates that the city will be controlled by six Consuls, renewed each year, who exerts the civil justice in the name of the king and is invested capacity to impose the size S and to make them raise. It creates public notaries, criers and establishes two three day old fairs each one and a weekly market. It authorizes the construction of houses of five Brassée S of width and ten length on the territory of the commune and exempts the inhabitants of the obligations related to the right of albergue - obligation for the Vassal to place the lord, transformed into land royalty - and of the right of bladade - obligation to pay a measurement of corn for each pair of oxen used for the ploughing - then into force and very widespread in the seigniory of Albi.

The years which followed the foundation of Arthès were extremely difficult. In addition to the Leprosy which decimated the population, the Peste made its appearance towards 1340. More than one third of the inhabitants was carried by the plague. To the fatal epidemics came to be added misfortunes of the Guerre One hundred Year old. In 1369, the English made their first incursions into the Albigensian, and, after other places, seized the Château of Lescure, holding garrison in Arthès.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

Charles Durand: international referee of Rugby to XV

See too

Common of the Tarn

External bonds

Site of the town hall of Arthès.
Given quantified on Arthès on the site of the Net surfer.

Arthès on the site of the national geographical Institute
Arthès on the site of INSEE
Arthès on the site of Quid
Localization of Arthès on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Arthès on Mapquest

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