Benquet

Benquet is a common French, located in the department of the Landes (40) and the area Aquitaine. Its inhabitants are the Benquetois.

Geography

Benquet is located in the Pays of Marsan, to 8 km in the South of Mount-with-Marsan, with the borders of the main forest of the Moors and the agricultural area of the Chalosse.

Communes bordering: Holy Pierre-of-Mount, Brittany-with-Marsan, Saint-Maurice-on-the Adour, Saint-Sever, Bas-Mauco, Haut-Mauco

History

Benquet, pertaining to the old province of Gascogne, was attached to the Abbaye of Saint-Sever. Jehan Bernard de Benquet, vassal of the prince of Navarre, was Sénéchal of Marsan and Gabardan.

The settlement of the small area located between the Adour and the Midouze structure primarily between the Life and XIVe centuries, around the first churches of Christendom, which form the cores of the future villages.

Economy

Culture of the Corn, breeding of Duck S and Goose S, production of Foie gras. Research center of INRA.

Administration

Demography

Twinning

, in remembering the Alsatian civilians who have found refuge in the village landais at the beginning of the Second world war.

Places and monuments

Churches Holy Jean-Baptiste (1880) and Holy Christau (11th century), with its bell-tower landais typical. The latter was rebuilt in 1563, after its confusion and the massacre of inhabitants by the troops Huguenot be of Montgomery. To note, into the enclosure, fall it from Bertrand Petit Loustau, old bodyguard of Louis XVI, died in Benquet in 1831. Presence also of the burial of a knight, companion of Saint-Louis. The village has a castle nonopen to the visit, built in 1872, old residence of the marquis de Cornulier.

Saint Jacques-of-Compostelle

Benquet is a stage on the way of Saint-Jacob (way of Vézelay or Via Lemovicensis). The current Saint-Jacob road borrows a section of the historical route of the Camin Sin Yaques , and the locality Espitaou marks the presence of an old hospital, accommodating the pilgrims with the Middle Ages. A source known as “miraculous” on a private property, near the church of St Christau, recalls its virtues alleviating on the tired or wounded pilgrims.

Personalities related to the commune

Starting from 1517, the Marsan is attached to the vast domain of the counts d' Albret, reigning then on the Navarre. Into 1560, Jeanne d' Albret is converted with Protestantism. By the ordinance of July 19th, 1561, it imposes the Calvinism in its kingdom, which will involve rough fights in the area and in Benquet (ransacked places of worship etc). His/her son, the King of France Henri IV, had in Benquet an elegant pied-à-terre: the house Castle-Old man (disappeared today)
Jean-Baptiste Papin, count de Saint-Christau, politician and French lawyer, died with Benquet in 1809

Events

Festival of music Asset Choruses at the beginning of May.
Festivals of Benquet at the beginning of July.

See too

Common of the Moors
Small Moors
Country of Marsan
List of French churches to campenard

External bonds

Site of the commune of Benquet
Ways of Jacques Saint in the Moors
Ways of Jacques Saint in Aquitaine
Roads, Ways and Localities of Benquet
Site of the Kinglets of Plane Benquet basketball
of Benquet on Mapquest

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