Bourbriac

Bourbriac is a common , Chef-lieu of canton of the department of the Coast-with Armor, in the area Brittany, in France.

Geography

Boubriac comes from Breton the bourb (borough) and from saint Briac, monk from Ireland (of the province of Ultonie or Ulster).

King Deroch would have granted to Briac to build a monastery close to his castle (Coz-Manor house). Briac leaves then its monastery to live in a hermitage (Pénity-Briac). Left to Rome, it returns to die in its monastery on December 17th, 627.

Bourbriac is an old parish (forest zone cleared tardily) which is, seems it, a dismemberment of the primitive parish of Plésidy, and included formerly, in addition to the current territory of Bourbriac, those of Coadout, Saint-Adrien, Gurunhuel and Bridge-Melvez.

Bourbriac (Minihibriac) seems to have for origin a Celtic Monastère raised by the Irish monk Briac at the 6th century. Constituted in parish this minihy is, of the middle of the 12th century at the end of the 13th century, a possession of the abbey of Saint-Melaine of Rennes. The “voyer of Minibriac” (vicarius then vigerius) is mentioned since 1205 in Cartulaire de Quimperlé. The châtellenie, then seigniory of Minibriac appears since 1284. It is until the end of the Old Mode, an appendix of the châtellenie of Guingamp. Minihybriac (1158), then Minibriac (1185) is the name of a church which is qualified parish since 1330. Since 1371 (lawsuit of canonization of Saint-Yves), one finds indifferently Burgobriaci or Bourchbriac (in 1427). Bourbriac had like Trier: Saint-Adrien, Plésidy, Coadout and Magoar.

By letters of September 23rd, 1420, the duke Jean V gives to Charles de Rohan, lord of Guéméné, the seigniory of Minibriac, confiscated by the house of Penthièvre. August 22nd, 1444, Louis de Rohan, wire of Charles sells to Pierre of Brittany, lord of Guingamp, the seigniories of Minibriac and Plésidy (Mor., pr. 11,1041 and 1364).

The Chouan S make many incursions and plunderings with the borough of Bourbriac: March 11th, 1796, on December 10th, 1799 and on February 9th, 1800.

Administration

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Demography

Tourist monuments and places

the church Saint-Briac (12th century), built by the Benedictines of Saint-Melaine about 1100. The construction of the tower began on June 10th, 1535 (it seems replaced a Romance bell-tower-porch). One can see a crypt of the 12th century there. The square of the transept dates from the 16th century. It contains a sarcophagus mérovingien and the tomb of Saint-Briac (of the beginning of the 16th century). Construction at the beginning of the 16th century of two privative vaults coupled with the north and the south of the chorus respectively surmounted by a sacristy and a treasure. In 1765, a fire destroys the nave and the sides of the church. The arrow of the church is destroyed by a hurricane in the night from January 7th to 8th 1867. The arrow is rebuilt in 1869

the Notre-Dame vault of Danouët (- 16th century). The arcade of the northern vault and the fenestration of the bedside date from the 14th century. The pinnacle with three rooms dates from the years 1920

the vault Saint-Houarneau or Saint-Herve (- 16th century). It seems gone back to 1520. It is rebuilt in 1828. The bell-tower wall has a room

the vault of Pénity de Saint-Briac (- 15th century), restored in 1828. The window is and the western door date from the 15th century. The bell-tower wall has a bell chamber

the Notre-Dame vault of Mercy de Penpinot (- 17th century). The bell-tower wall has a bell chamber

the Saint-Briac vault of Bodfo (1948), built in remembering the end of the second world war

the fountain of Penpinot

the Saint-Briac fountain (- 18th century)

the old presbytery (18th century)

the manor of Lizard (- 17th century), property of the family Bizien de Lézard whose another branch had the manor of Helloc, also in Bourbriac. To note that the private vault of the Lizard is in Saint-Adrien (old trève of Bourbriac)

the manor and the vault of Helloch (- 17th century). The tower dates from the 16th century and the central home goes back to 1625

manors of Disquay and Kerias (- 17th century), of Langoat (17th century), Lojou (- 18th century)

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