Lhospitalet

Lhospitalet is a common French, located in the department of the Lot and the area the Midday-Pyrenees.

Geography

To the 11th century, a hospital which took the name of Helene Lady gave her name to this small commune. To a few hundred meters from there, in the east, existed, still in 1790, the commandery of Granéjouls of the Hospitaliers of Midsummer's Day of Jerusalem.

The pilgrimage of Compostelle

On the Via Podiensis of the Pilgrimage of Saint-Jacques-to-Compostelle. One comes from Labastide-Marnhac, the next commune is Lascabanes, and the church of Escayrac.

History

It is between 1095 (according to the chronicler Fouilhac, followed by the historian quercynois G. Lacoste) and middle of the 13th century, which Dame Helene (of Castelnau) and its following, being embourbées with their mountings in a “fangas”, the bottom of a small valley, accepted not to be able to get clear. Dame Helene made the wish then, if they managed to be left this bad step, be devoted to the care of the poor and the pilgrims. Having been able to regain the dry land, she discharged her wish.

It is there the origin of the Saint-Jacob hospital of Hospitalet, known as “of Helene Lady”, somewhat located at the south of Cahors, the crossroads of the way coming from this city and moving towards Moissac, by Castelnau Montratier and the valley of Lembous or by Capelette de Durfort, and of old the Roman Voie coming from Varaire and Granéjouls where also another hospital was which was plain for him in 1246.

It was a small hospital the length whose the village was stretched later on. Of this establishment, there does not remain any more trace, except an arcade enchased in a wall which could be a vestige of the vault. His exact site is not even known.

A will of August 15th 1566 brings some precise details: “House-God of Hospitalet”, known as of “the foundation of Jacques saint”, is gratifiée of a ground legacy “ for entretenement of the ten poor of God so much of Hospitalet de Granéjouls and other pasans and repassans ”. It is thus about a modest hospital of capacity. Nothing astonishing with that, others are close, to start with the hospitals of Cahors.

To the 17th century, the term of Jacques saint is firmly attached to this house, named usually “ commandery of Hospitalet or the holy hospital Jacques of the known as place of Hospitalet ” while its appendix of Granéjouls is presented like especially intended for the pilgrims of Saint-Jacob. Does this vocation go up at the time of its foundation? Most probably at the year 1246, time of fusion with Granéjouls, as a document of brings it back 1678.

Administration

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Demography

Places and monuments

the church, old, altered at the 15th century, whose chorus was the oratorical of the hospital of Helene Lady. One still discovers there mosaic S Polychrome S which belonged to the establishment Gallo-Roman which preceded the Commanderie.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of the Batch

External bonds

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

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