Germignonville

Germignonville is a common French, located in the department of Eure-et-Loir and the area Center.

Geography

Germignonville has the singular property to be located at the center of gravity of a right-angled triangle composed of three old Roman ways.

It is also the place from where sourdent mysterious the Conie S of Germignonville and Cambray, odd rivers which only run… if the tablecloth of Beauce is rather high.

History

Germinonis Villa, Germenonis Villa, Germenouis Villa, Germeinunvilla, Germigionis Villa in 954, Germigonvilla in 1236, the church was already mentioned by it in 840, Germi meaning the grain which germinates, according to the Latinists.

The " treasure of Germignonville" , of three kg Roman coins found in the North-East of Marasson in 1921, dispersed together is composed. The ones led in the collection Fardet, others in the collection Nouel (this one deposited today with the Museum of the Natural science of Orleans).

In 954, recalls Edouard Lefèvre, Mérouvilliers and Planchevilliers depended then on the parish of Germignonville, which formed the limits of the Dunois and the Chartrain country: " Terram nominates Germinionis Villam (Germignonville) ejusque duet adjacentia, hoc is, Pleseni Villam (Planchevilliers) and Moirollum Villare (Mérounvillers) cum am terminationibus, in Pago Dunensi sitam".

Ram Lazare of Chartres: a correspondent informs me by email of the existence of " Lazare of Chartres, rams and heiress of Germignonville, who married towards 1480, Claude of $the Hague. Their downward, Marie of $the Hague, rams of Germignonville, married Adrien de Bouville, of which it had Samuel de Bouville, sior of Germignonville." (source: files of the Hubert canon)

“Drivers of Orgères” with Germignonville, horrific history, but sadly proven: “We will leave side several attacks of little importance, compared to the latter. The 20 germinal year V (April 9th, 1796), Red-of Auneau, François-the-Metal worker, Beauceron-the-Blouse, etc, led by Beautiful-François, are presented to the farm of Boutet, located with Saint-Léonard, commune of Germignonville. They are introduced inside using the same processes (the bomb, or piece of wood balanced with arm), but not finding what they hoped for money, they seize the Boutet woman and blows with such an inhumanity overpower it that it is flooded of blood; they trail it with the chimney, where one of them had just lit a few sheaves of straw, the feet with fire present to him and hold of them to him one in the flame until she said in which places was the money. They went immediately to the hiding-place that it indicated to them and found approximately 700 francs. Surprised that it had there if little money, they threaten this unfortunate to burn it again; then seeing their threats without result, they seize Boutet that by several times they present to fire without obtaining other information; then they come to his/her daughter (his wife, in modern language) and declare to him that they will kill it if she does not say where is the money of the militia of her husband, who had been sold in replacement for the requisition; they seize it like carrying out their threats, put a razor to him on the neck: " Cross, says to them it, I will not endure evil so a long time! ".
Ils left it, divided the spoils and disappeared. ” (Extracted from “History of the Band of Orgères” of A-F Coudray-Maunier, work published in 1883).

The disaster race of the band ended to the castle close to Villeprévost, the 30 January 1798 where more than 300 brigands were locked up by Amand-François Fougeron, Justice of the Peace of the canton of Orgères.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Localities:

Léonard saint, old place of worship and annual procession.

Toulifaut, old customs between Chartres-native country and dunois.

Cambray and its castle:

Cambray, on the road plates, Cambric, on the road maps, Combarius, Roman camp, for Negro professor Ernest, Combrée, because encumbered roselières,

The origin of the name remains undecided and the hesitant current orthography.

According to Edouard Lefèvre:

NR. of Oinville, was lord of Puiset, them Bordes,… and Cambray, castle of the commune of Germignonville in 1575.

Lefèvre specifies whereas: Germignonville depended formerly on Dunois.

In 1575, precisely on March 28th, the noble Lambert, rider and adviser of the king, repurchases the castle, as well as the farm of Bordes to the lord of Puiset, and takes the name of Lambert of Cambray.

Personalities related to the commune

In addition to the lords such as Lazare of Chartres, lady of Germignonville, or the noble Lambert family of Cambray which always lives the commune in its castle, the historically known characters of Germignonville… shine only by their absence.
Hormis Simon Lavo, born in Germignonville in 1755, army surgeon of the marine, affected with the forwarding of Lapérouse, which probably died at the time of the shipwreck of the Compass and of the Astrolabe , two ships of forwarding.

In April 2007, Alain Denizet, qualified schoolteacher of history and geography, the history of Alain Denizet (1798-1854) publishes, modest owner-owner with Germignonville, the Centrelivres editions, under the title: In the middle of Beauce. Inquire into a peasant without history .
With this work, the author was the prize winner of the price of the manuscript of the Country Dunois 2006.

See too

Common of Eure-et-Loir

External bonds

Web site relating to Germignonville: http://www.germignonville.info

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

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