Chanaleilles

Chanaleilles is a common Frenchwoman of less 1 000 inhabitants, located in the department of the Haute-Loire and the area Auvergne, in the Margeride, at the borders of the Lozere, a score of kilometers of Saugues.

Geography

The Pilgrimage of Compostelle

On the Via Podiensis of the Pilgrimage of Saint-Jacques-to-Compostelle.
One comes from Saugues, the next commune is Saint-Alban-on-Limagnole and its church Saint Alban.

History

The village of Chanaleilles and its area were with the Moyen-âge the seat of a Seigneurie which gave its name to the one of oldest and most famous the family of the Vivarais, the Maison of Chanaleilles, chivalrous house of origin , which goes back to Guillaume III of Chanaleilles, which lived towards 1228. This family provided knights bannerets, captains of men-at-arms, officers of ground and sea, lieutenants of king of province, and seneshals of nobility.

In 1422, Pierre de Chanaleilles helped, like lord banneret, the dolphin Charles, before it becomes Charles VII, while this young prince was withdrawn with the country of the Velay. After being gone up on the throne, this monarch thanked Pierre de Chanaleilles, by a letter clause, services that it had returned to him, and accepted it knight.

This same Pierre de Chanaleilles was the first Baillif of sword installed in the name of the King de France in Vivarais and Valentinois.

At the beginning of the 14th century, the lords of the house of Chanaleilles qualified themselves, in their acts, of “ noble and powerful ”.

Administration

Mayrand Jean

Demography

Places and monuments

The Romance Church (XIIe century)

Located in full heart of the village, the church of Chanaleilles is small a Romance church of the 12th century, known for its characteristic Clocher-mur.

Dômerie of the Savage

It is old “a Dômerie” of the Templiers, repurchased by the department of the Haute-Loire, which gives it in hiring for the breeding of cattle. Thanks to what, one finds there, at the same time lodging, products of the farm and a reception worthy of this marvellous framework.

To 1.292 m of altitude, isolated at the top from the Margeride, vis-a-vis a broad valley directed in north, the “field of the Savage” comprises stone buildings of size, at the edge of the forest and bordered of water parts supplied with Virlange, here near to its source.

With three kilometers in the west, at the edge of the road, the place known as “ Hospitalet of the Savage ”, will inform us by his memory on the history of this vast domain.

Historians affirmed that “Hospitalet” ( the small hospital ) was founded in 1198 by Hélie de Chanaleilles and Hugues de Thoras then entrusted to same Templiers.
Confiscated in 1314 like all the goods of the order, field and hospital would have been reserved for the Hospital of the Puy, the incomes going to hospital from Midsummer's Day of Jerusalem and the worship being ensured by the priests of Saint M3edard's Day of Saugues.

These associations provide the proof of the close links existing to the length of the ways pèlerines.

The Saint-Roch Vault

Also called vault of Hospitalet of Sauvage.
with the Collar of Hospitalet, to 1.308 Mr. This altitude marks the change of department.

The memory of the old hospital is perpetuated by the Saint-Roch fountain (still in Haute-Loire), goal of an always alive local pilgrimage, and the vault (already in Lozere) of very the vocable.
This establishment, known as of 13th century, depended then on the hospital of Puy. In 1340, a Saint-Jacob church is attested in this place, just as a pilgrimage in the honor of the apostle, the July 25th.
The Réforme was right of this devotion, and towards the end of the wars of religion, the vault fell in ruins, despite everything the worship of the saint remained attached to the fountain bearing its name. As very often the 16th century, the worship of Holy Roch, pilgrim of Rome replaced for that of holy Jacques.
Towards the end of the 19th century, a new vault was set up to a few hundred meters from there in territory lozérien. Destroyed by a cyclone in 1897, the monument was rebuilt in 1901, such as we see it today.

Works of art

The commune of Chanaleilles has a remarkable Sculpture, a Vierge in majesty out of wood paints polychrome, dating from the last quarter of the 12th century - preserved in the town hall - which was protected by a classification under object on July 22nd 1958.

Personalities related to the commune

Guillaume Ier de Chanaleilles, took part in the First crusade at the sides of the count de Toulouse Raymond IV, known as Raymond of Saint-Gilles .
Guillaume II of Chanaleilles, knight of the Temple, favorite of the King de France Louis VII to succeed the post of Master of the Order in 1154 with Bernard de Tramelay - died the previous year in front of Ascalon - saw his election countered by André de Montbard (10?? - 1156) - the last of the new first knights founders of the Order - which accepted its nomination to prevent the control of the Order by the king.
Guillaume III of Chanaleilles, lord of Chanaleilles, which was at the origin of the Maison of Chanaleilles.
Charles François Guillaume de Chanaleilles (1767 - 1845), baron, then marquis de Chanaleilles, gave his name to a street of Paris

See too

Common of the Haute-Loire

External bonds

Chanaleilles on the site of the national geographical Institute
Chanaleilles on the site of INSEE
Chanaleilles on the site of Quid
Localization of Chanaleilles on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Chanaleilles on Mapquest

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