Beauvoisin (Gard)

Geography

Beauvoisin leans with the plate of the Costières of Nimes. Of its dominant position on the plain of the Vistre, the landscape embraces a ray of more than 100 km:

In North: Nimes, the Scrubland S nîmoises and solid mass of the the Cevennes.
In the South: The small Camargue, the the Camargue and the Mediterranean.
In the East: The village close to Générac, the Valley of the Rhone and the Mount Ventoux.
In the West: Montpellier and the Herault until the Holy Peak Wolf.

By its hamlet of Franquevaux, built around a Cistercian abbey of the XIIe century, the commune extends to the marshy zones from the small Camargue. A great tradition of angular Race camarguaise stone of the " bouvine " characterize all the villages of this region between Costières and the Camargue.

History

The first mentions of Beauvoisin appear towards 820 on a cartulaire of the Abbaye of Psalmody, located close to Acute-Dead. The place is called TOVANA or TUFANA . It is located at the current site of the old village, around the hillock of the Castle. This elevated site was favourable with the monitoring and its own defense, in periods of great invasions which borrowed the corridor of Nimes towards the West.

In 973 , the bishop Bernard of Nimes, yields a Hermas or armed (ground without culture) with the doors with Beauvoisin to one named Raoux and his wife, in exchange of a vine under the walls of Nimes. Under the name of Bellovicidum , the ground of village belongs to the Viscount of Nimes of the Aton family, of 1027 with 1041. The castle built in 1067 would have belonged to Templiers and would have been destroyed about 1150, like its Saint-Pierre vault (with the site of the current church).

In 1121 , the castle of Beauvoisin passes under the jurisdiction vauverdoise when Rostaing II of Posquières (old name of Vauvert) wife Ermessinde, girl of Bernard Aton IV, Viscount of Nimes and Béziers. She brings in dowry the castles of Beauvoisin? Calvisson and Marguerittes.

In 1143 , Pierre de Beauvoisin is pilot donation by Pons-Guilhem of its grounds of francavallis to the Abbaye of Franquevaux. Then in 1145, Bernard Raymond de Beauvoisin is pilot act of Bernard Aton IV in favor of the fairs of Nimes. To keep its jurisdictions, Rostaing III of Posquières repurchases in 1146 with Bernard Aton the dowry of his Ermessinde mother against 98 money marcs of the weight of Saint-Gilles, i.e. the justice of the castles of Beauvoisin, Calvisson and Marguerittes and the capacity to require oath of fidelity of all their inhabitants.

The brigands Cathares or Albigensian occupy the castrum of Belote . In 1197, Raymond VI Count de Toulouse besieges it and delivers it. An agreement made in 1198 between the abbot of Franquevaux and Guillaume de Cazellis, provost of the chapter of Nimes and prior of Beauvoisin on the limits of their respective territories. Later, the prior Pierres of Besset ensures a legal settlement between the lord and the inhabitants of Beauvoisin by which one grants thirteenth dîme to him. The enumeration of the seneschalsy of Nimes, organized in 1384, reveals 9 fires at the village of Bellovicinum , i.e. approximately 50 inhabitants. The repair of subsidy (tax) to the king Charles VI mentions the ecclésia Bellovicino , that with Charles VII, in 1437, quotes Belvoysin .

In the acts of the notary Ursy in Nimes one finds quoted the Saint-Thomas priory of Beauvoysin . In the acts of the same notary, in 1575, the village is called Beauvoisin .

In this end of the 15th century, Beauvoisin almost completely adheres to the ideas Réforme. Until the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, the commune will be controlled by consuls Protestants. From this period, one will retain the will of the elected officials to ensure the training of the children of the village. There exist of effects of the contracts of tutors engaged for this function. The disorders of after Edit of Nantes will not save Beauvoisin. Prohibited assembled (deserted), organized around the village will be repressed. The camisards will invest the commune in 1704, there will burn the church and will make victims among the population.

With the Revolution, the village occupies the territory with the foot of the castle, between the street of the post office, main street, the paved street and the street of the play of the email. The food crops especially (corn, barley, olive-trees) are primarily in the plain. The Twyers-side, pertaining for major part to the abbey of Franquevaux, are covered with wood, in the middle of which one finds some farmhouses like Listerne or Holy-Dove. The sale of these goods, become national goods, to some owners beauvoisinois and their clearing, will start the rise of the agriculture which modelled the village of today.

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Places and monuments

the Castle was built as from 1067. It would have, following the example castle of Générac, belonged to the Templiers.
the temple is when with him builds in 1834 on the ruins of the church.
the clock and the town hall, which contains at the time the school, also are built in this first half of the XIXe century.

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