Banality (right seigneurial)

The banalities are technical installations that the lord is in the obligation to maintain and place at the disposal of any inhabitant of the Seigneurie. The counterpart is that the inhabitants of this seigniory can use only these seigneuriales installations, paying. They are thus technological Monopole S.

The principal banalities are:

the banal Furnace
the banal Mill
the banal Press
the market with the wines

Under the Old mode, the communal oven is a furnace seigneurial, of which the use obligatory and is taxed as concerning the right of round of applause. This privilege will be abolished on July 17th, 1793.

A long time after the end of this monopoly attached to the joint use of certain equipment (furnace, mill, press…), the rural company preserved this collective practice of the cooking of the bread. For technical reasons (meticulousness of the construction of the furnace in particular) and economic (use of a minimum of wood for the heating), the inhabitants of a village grouped to build a common furnace. The furnace known as banal is in fact a construction belonging to the community. The individual furnace appeared only at the XIXe century. It is either independent, but near to the dwelling of its owner, or integrated into the latter.

Another right seigneurial was the banality of tor and worm , giving to the lord only the right to have a Taureau or a Verrat. Thus the reproduction of the cattle could also be prone to royalty.

Sources

ref.: http://www.stdb-auvergne.com/tourisme/patrimoine/four.htm

Bonnemère, Eugene (1813-1893). History of the peasants, since the end of the Middle Ages

See too

Banvin

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