Monterfil

Monterfil is a common French, located in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine and the area Brittany.

Geography

To 24 km in the west of Rennes

History

Monterfil comes from Latin monasterium (monastery) and from " Fili" , a Breton saint .

Monterfil is a dismemberment of the old primitive parish of Iffendic. According to the tradition, holy Maëlmon, bishop of Alet, would have founded at the 7th century a priory, a hospital and a vault, on the territory of Monterfil, with generosities of king Judicaël.

Another assumption is that Jéhan of Villehué, local lord, would have established the worship of Genou saint, following a combat gained by the intercession of Génulphe saint.

The parish of Monterfil depended formerly on old évêché on Saint-Malo.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

The Saint-Knee-and-Saint-Etienne church (about 1860). This church replaces an old church which dated from the 16th century. The latter having itself, with saying of a legend, replaced a church built by Jehan of Villehué lord of Monterfil and set fire to by Huguenots. The weapons of the lords of Monterfil and their alliances were formerly visible on several capitals of the church including one gone back to 1576. (Saint-Knee is the first bishop of Cahors in the middle of the 3rd century).

The Vault Saint-Knee, monument-with-deaths and fountain, are charming a small vault, high in the honor of died of the war of 1914-1918, with the top of the fountain Saint-Knee. It was built by the architect Hyacinthe Perrin, at the request of the mayor Louis Oberthur and bénite in 1926 by the cardinal Charost, archbishop of Rennes.

The cross, with the weapons of the lords of Monterfil, is drawn up in the cemetery.

The castle of Monterfil (19th century), built with the site of a primitive castle which had right of high justice to the Middle Ages. Its old stronghold seigneurial is surrounded by a ditch called ditch of Saint-Knee: it would have been dug by Jehan of Villehué at the 16th century. One sees there two octagonal capitals with the weapons of the lords of Monterfil coming from the old church: one is gone back to 1576. Property of the lords of Monterfil (in 1427 and 1513), then successively of the Busnel families (in 1642), of Ravenel, Huchet lords of Curved (at the 18th century), Bintinaye, Oberthur (at the end of the 19th century)

Water mills of Bonnais, Abas and the Arch.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of Ille-et-Vilaine

External bonds

Site of presentation
Monterfil on the site of the national geographical Institute
Monterfil on the site of INSEE
Monterfil on the site of preliminary Quid
Inventory of the DRAC
Localization of Monterfil on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Monterfil on Mapquest

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