Grivesnes

Grivesnes is a common French, located in the department of the Somme and the area Picardy.

Geography

Grivesnes is in the South-east of Amiens, on the secondary road D26 , halfway between Ailly-on-Noye and Montdidier.

Hamlets, localities and variations

Ainval , in the North-West, halfway between Grivesnes and Sourdon, visible in a small small valley on the southern part of the secondary road D26.
Septoutre , not very distant from Ainval, on the same side of the secondary road.
Plessier , in the South (in direction of Villers-Small tower), which one should not also confuse with another village of the Santerre, but more in North and beyond the Avre, Plessier-Rozainvillers.

Administration

Demography

History

The exactions of the Jacquerie, precisely born in the village close to Villers-Small tower, undoubtedly should not have saved the strengthened castle, then existing (but the titles and the sources miss).

The manor seigneurial of XVe century was destroyed by the Burgundian troops at the time of their retirement towards Montdidier which, come from Beauvais that they had not been able to invest (episode of Jeanne Lainé known as “ Jeanne Hachette ”), had devastated all the part of Beauvaisis ranging between the city of the Bellovaques and Breteuil, before setting fire to and putting at bag the Santerre.

Louis de Goussencourt (oldest son of Robert, mentioned hereafter) made set up the principal main building of the castle, between 1611 (date of its marriage with Catherine the Saddler, girl of Jean, payer of the Gendarmerie of France) and 1640, date of his death.

After the destruction of 1636, a couple of the village, François Matoret and his wife Francoise Louchet (or Trochet, the notarial acts mention indifferently the two names) emigrate and will make stock in Quebec, just as two members of seigneuriales families of the area (of which Catherine de Belleau, to see below).

Increased to XVIIIe, the castle belonged at the end of the Ancien Mode in Louis de Goussencourt, count de Grivesnes, who could not be opposed to the confiscation of the field issued because of the departure for the emigration of his son Louis-Henri (1766-1849). It however obtained the removal of the seals in Year II and, at the time of the adjudications of 1793 and 1794, the castle was sold like national good. An inhabitant of Grivesnes, Roch Théry, whose aïeux ones (come from the Arrageois) had resided for more than two centuries in the parish, repurchased part of the grounds as well as the mill, goods which it then reassigned with his owners. The field was sold, in 1899, by the Viscount Urbain Dominique de Beaurepaire de Louvagny with a notary amiénois of the name of Lenain.

During the First World War, the communal records was destroyed, the village was devastated, which will involve parcellings out of properties and rebuildings. In April and May 1918, the castle, surrounded then of a park of 19 ha, including/understanding an industrial alcohol distilling and an contiguous farm of 132 ha, was the theater of a baited battle, going to the body with body with the bayonet, and undergoes a flood of shell which damaged it to two thirds. Many soldiers killed at the time of the battle were buried without ceremony, to haste, in the park currently reduces to 4 ha, in which one could undoubtedly still find many shells, grenades, balls and glares various. One the remaining third of the building saw several owners following one another, sometimes quickly. Since, remained a long time on sale, he is again inhabited and in the course of rehabilitation.

The dominant seigniory and families

Before entering, by purchase, in the bosom of the family of Goussencourt, the seigniory of Grivesnes had been held by Jean de Robbes, “ count of Anappes, baron de Billy ”, and still before (in 1424) by Guillaume of Villers, including one downward, Catherine de Villers still had Plessier-Raulevé in 1529.

Plessier-Raulevé , in the South and in direction of Coullemelle, owes by deformation its name with Raoul-the-Old man, fils of Hugues de France and Adele de Vermandois, grandson of Herbert IV of Vermandois and Adele de Crépy (itself girl of Raoul de Gouy, which had a country cottage there), and is Plessier-under-Grivesnes today.

The seigniory was then had by the house of Charlet de Saint-Aignan, originating in the Ponthieu: Simon de Charlet, Gédéon de Charlet, his/her brother, and the son of this last, Charles.

The seigniory of Grivesnes, moving of that of Aubvillers (bordering) was held of the marquisat of Nesle. It was subdivided in several seigniories and sub-fiefs: that of Grivesnes itself and those of Saint-Aignan , of the Plessier-Raulevé , Pommeroy (had by the house of Belleau) and of the Madness-Guérard (which belonged to the houses of Caboche, Bussy and Boufflers).

Robert de Goussencourt, rider, “ lord of Montigny, Misery ”, Adviser at the Parliament of Paris (of 1571 to 1596), acquired the seigniory on December 20th, 1577 at the time of a sale by decree made before the Court of the same Parliament and its descendants had it until the French revolution. The house of Goussencourt, of old knighthood, maintained noble on May 28th, 1701, which belongs to the nobility of Vermandois, holds its name of a stronghold located at Morchain close to Péronne. One counts in this family of the soldiers, the monks and the advisers at the Parliament of Paris. Goussencourt carries “ of hermine to the chief of mouths ” with this currency: “ Vigilance and Tuto ”.

One also finds in the area Gédéon de Charlet, knight, governor of Bridge-Remy, sgr of Saint-Aignan (the chief town of the seigniory of Saint-Aignan was located at the place where the cemetery of Grivesnes is today) carries “money to the lion of mouths to the orle of 11 merlettes of the same ”. Rider, also sgr of Poupaincourt, he was lieutenant of the King to the castle of the Crotoy.

In the same way the house of Gouy (in Ponthieu, Vimeu, Bolted, Artois, Calaisis, Pays of Caux…), it also of old knighthood, left its name to noble strongholds located on the territory of Grivesnes (known as “ strongholds of Gouy ”) and whose filiation on evidence is known since the beginning of XIIe century. the house of Gouy carries “ started from gold and azure to the eagle éployée sand, membrée and beakful of mouths, accompanied by three flowers of lily of mouths, posed 2 and 1, with the foot cut, the latter party on gold and the azure ” (weapons which are also to some extent those of Quiéret).

the sister of Suzanne de Gouy, Gabrielle, married Antoine de Belleau, (of Pommeroy), sgr of the Moor and Cantigny, village him so close to Grivesnes, seigniory which will pass, in its turn, about 1719, in the bosom of the family of Goussencourt.

The castle thus passed tardily, and by marriage, initially in the hands of the family of Myre-Mory then in those of the family of Beaurepaire de Louvagny. The Myre-Mory house, of nobility of extraction, maintained noble on July 30th, 1668, Honors of the Court (gone up in Carosses of the King, in Versailles) in 1758,1764,1782,1786 and 1789), established in Guyenne and in Languedoc then, finally, in Picardy, carries quartered “to the 1 and 4 of azure to 3 gold eagles to the lowered flight diadémées, beakfuls and membrées of mouths posed two and one of the chief faced, with the 2 and 3d' gold with the band of mouths supporting 3 sand merlettes alongside of 2 oil cakes of azure one as a chief the other in laying; on the whole, of gold a fasce of azure charged with 3 gold stars”. Angelica of Goussencourt, while marrying in 1801 Antoine of Myre (1773-1851), wire junior by old the sgr of Davenescourt, thus transmitted Grivesnes to a come new family.

The origin of the family of Baurepaire, whose original patronym is Gaultier and whose filiation goes back to 1200 by Jean-Michel gaultier, Seigneur of Courteilles, of Wood, Lonchamps and Sortis. This family served with distinction all the kings, of Philippe V in Louis XVIII, the emperors Napoleon I° and Napoleon III and the republic during the wars of 1870,1914,1939 and in Indo-China. One more often found them on the battle fields than in the fields of their properties or with the court where they occupied various loads. She counts an infinity of officers of all ranks, which in fact a family of old nobility and many monks and nuns. She was anoblie in 1453 and confirmed several times in their old nobility, carrying the titles of Marquis, Count and Viscount, the title of Count being always carried by the descendant of the elder branch. Jean Gaultier married in second wedding Jacqueline de Beaurepaire on September 6th, 1497, provided the children resulting from this union raises the name of Beaurepaire, which was in process of extinction as well as the weapons (of sand, with three sheaves of money oats, crowns Marquis, support 2 angels or 2 lions), which was confirmed on January 25th, 1561 by letters patent of the King Charles IX in Gratien Gaultier, rider, lord of Jort; Pierrefite, the malardière, etc ordering of a company of cavalry in the war against Charles-Quint. It is Louis de Beaurepaire, rider, Seigneur of Jort, Rozières, Pierrefite, etc, captain of 50 men-at-arms who bought the ground of Louvagny on November 14th, 1595. His/her son Francois, rider, ordering a company of people to feet accepted in May 1651 of the letters patent of the King Louis XIV which set up in full stronghold haubert the strongholds and noble grounds of Louvagny, the title of Count and the authorization to build a castle there. Thus the family made stock in the Apple-brandy, made build on the Stronghold of Louvagny a castle (which always exists) in the first quarter of the XVIIIe century, then the parish church Saint-Protais, classified historic building. Part of the family emigrated in Picardy at the XIXe century and lay during almost a century in the area of Grivesnes, of 1840 to 1920. It is into 1856 that the Viscount Raoul Ludovic Reine of Beaurepaire de Louvagny, born on February 6th, 1828 in Paris, teaches vessel in “ Royal the ”, inherited his/her grandmother of Myre of the castle of Grivesnes. It left the navy then and settled there with its Eugenie wife, born from Myre-Mory. He was mayor of Grivesnes of 1897 to 1899.

Places and monuments

The commune of Grivesnes is one of rare, in the circumference of Montdidier, which can be enorgueillir of two old buildings still remaining, in spite of the appalling battle which proceeded on its territory during the Great War.

the castle : Modified in the years 1920 (the comparison with an old postcard is particularly revealing damage perpetrated at the time of a " reconstruction" disrespectful of the past, with a truncated house and cover of a roof in particularly disgracieux lean-to building), it had been built at the beginning of the XVIIe century, by the house of Goussencourt, instead of a manor seigneurial of XVe century, had been destroyed by the Burgundian troops of the Téméraire.

Already, about 1845, the frontages of the main building had been the subject of a restoration known as " épidermique" : the bricks dark red and the gray stone, perfectly cut, attest this restoration malvenue of the romantic time, which contrasts with the beautiful color of materials of origin (red orange for milky brick and white for chalk).

the church : Contiguous to the park of the castle, it is worthy of interest because it testifies to the religious architecture under the Restauration. It was recently classified “ because of its originality as well for the history of its construction as for its architectural design ”.

It was built of 1835 to 1842 by craftsmen of the village, in the fields of the Viscount Antoine Louis Gabriel of Myre. The interior was decorated by the Frères Duthoit, which had worked not very front with the cathedral of Amiens, and which took again many elements of them. The “ glory of the Heart of Jesus ” in bottom of chorus, the high altar and the two furnace bridges side are copies of those of Amiens. External architecture is singular: the church is almost square, with a Transept truncated, surmounted of a dome in half-sphere, architecture very inspired of the Greek or Byzantine churches. Originally, it was deprived of Clocher; he was added in 1890 by the commune, which entrusted the realization of it to an architect amiénois considered, Paul Deleforterie, which built many houses of Master in Picardy, as well as a certain number of castles, and which one redécouvre finally in the years 2000. As of before the Separation of the Church and the State (1905), Ludovic of Myre, which had inherited the church, made gift with the commune, in 1890.

Accolé with the church, is of it the vault always used of the family of Beaurepaire de Louvagny, where are buried more than twenty late.

the castle of Filescamps : One cannot speak about Grivesnes and the family of Beaurepaire de Louvagny, without mentioning this castle, located at 4 km. Having married in second weddings on August 26th, 1827, Alexandrine of Myre, the Viscount Urbain Jacques Dominique de Beaurepaire, having been born with Louvagny on November 20th, 1787, bought in 1840 this property, located on the commune of Braches at Misses Pauline and Antoinette de Braches to approach its in-laws, Myre, who resided at Grivesnes. This field, comprising a park of 7 ha and a farm of 113 ha, and located on a glacis almost at the top of a hill dominating Grivesnes, was also the object of a battle baited into 14-18. The bombardments of 1918 were right of the castle which had to be shaven. The Viscount Louis de Beaurepaire de Louvagny, great nephew of Urbain, sold it after the war. Only the body of farm and the two dependences remain today which were contiguous to the castle.

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