Châteaurenard

Châteaurenard is a common Frenchwoman of the department of the Rhone delta in area Provence-Alp-Coast of Azure.

History

The first signs of occupations on the site of Châteaurenard would go back to 2000 to 1800 before J.C. The fact that a copper arrow was also discovered, makes it possible to say that one is with chalcolithic (éthymologiquement: age of the stone and copper). These individuals are robust, but of weak stature. They are farmers (cereals) and stockbreeders of sheep.

At the time of the arrival of the Romans in Provence was done along the river valleys. The Rhone and the Durance were ways of ideal penetrations. In Châteaurenard, it is in the district of Vigneret that one finds the most vestiges Roman.

In V° century after J.C., the great invasions ransacked the area unfortunately erasing all important testimonys of this period on the commune.

The first lord who bore the name of Châteaurenard lived about year 970. His/her mother was called Balde and his/her father, Lambert says Dodon. He appears under the name of " Eldeberthus of Castro-Raynardus" with the bottom of a charter concerning an equipment made in favor of the Monastery of Montmajour in 1015, by the Emma countess, girl of Guillaume Taillefer, count de Toulouse.

In XIIeme century, when Ildefons d' Aragon became count de Provence, he wanted to obtain impregnable fortifications. Jordane, the mistress of this count de Provence, accepted the heavy responsibility of take care of the transformation of the primitive manor house into a fortified town. The stone replaced wood and construction lasted several years. Woman of taste and culture, Jordane organized courses of love. The troubadours passed by Châteaurenard, and one of them composed a poem which one made engrave on a stone (still visible today) in the " Turn of the Three Poignards".

At the XV century, the pope Benoît XIII then posts some on Avignon comes to take refuge in Châteaurenard to escape the seat from the Palate from the Popes carried out by Charles VI.

In 1727, Sexte Gabrielle d' Aymar, married Jean Louis Gabriel de Thomassin, marquis of Saint-Paul. In 1781, Joséphine Henriette de Thomassin of Saint-Paul married Louis Marc Antoine de Valori. Thus by the means of the successive marriages, Aymar, Thomassin and Valori followed one another throughout the XVIIIeme century in the baronnie of Châteaurenard.

Currency

Tutus in arce vigil. Of the shelter in the fortress I take care.

Heraldic

Mouths with the castle of four sand money turns, open and openwork, summoned of a busy fox of gold, each one of its legs on a lathe.

Economy

Antenna of the Chamber of commerce and industry of the Country of Arles which manages also the Training center trades of wood.

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