Balansun

Balansun is a common French, located in the department of the Yrénées-Atlantiques and the area Aquitaine.

Its inhabitants are Balansenais and Balansenaises.

Geography

Hydrography

The commune is crossed by the brook of Clamondé, an affluent of the Gave of Pau.

Localities and hamlets

Communes bordering

Sallespisse and Sault-with-Navailles in north
Mesplède in the east
Orthez in the west
Arthez-with-Béarn in south-east
Castétis in south-west
Argagnon in the south.

Toponymy

The toponym Balansun is mentioned in 1205 pennies this same form (titles of Bérérenx), and appears in the forms Balensun (XIIIe century, Fors de Béarn), Balensu (1343, notaries of Pardies), Valenssun (1385, censier of Béarn), Valencin (XIVe, Jean Froissart, delivers IV), Balanssun (1536, reformation of Béarn).

It originates in a name of Gascon man Latin Valentius) with the suffix - unum.

History

Paul Raymond note which the stronghold of Balansun was vassal Viscount of Béarn.
In 1385, the commune counted 27 fires and depended on the Bailliage of Pau.

Administration

Intercommunality

The common one belongs to four inter-commune structures:

the Community of communes of the canton of Orthez
SIVU of Balansun/Castétis
trade union water and cleansing of the Three Cantons
departmental trade union of electrification.

Demography

2005: provisional population of INSEE.

Economy

The activity is primarily turned towards agriculture (breeding).

Culture and inheritance

Civil inheritance

Religious heritage

Parish church of the Assumption-of-Our-Lady

Environmental inheritance

Equipment

The commune has an elementary school twinned with the elementary school of Castétis.

Personalities related to the commune

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