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.
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helped, like lord banneret, the dolphin Charles, before it becomes Charles VII, while this young prince was withdrawn with the country of the Velay.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 ”.
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 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.
Common of the Haute-Loire
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