Montmeyan

Montmeyan ( Mount-Meyan in Of Provence of Standard mistralienne and Montmejan in Of Provence traditional) is a common French, located in the department of the Var and the area Provence-Alp-Coast of Azure.

Geography

Montmeyan is built to 504 m of altitude, on a hill which dominates a broad valley, and allows an impregnable glance on the mountains of the Verdon. Circular village, blotti with the foot of its castle of which it remains at our days some beautiful vestiges, Montmeyan is an interlacing of lanes and passages arched, bordered of houses of Provence typical, narrow and high. Turns of the ramparts of the old medieval castle.

History

Before our era

The presence of the man Paléolithique is attested in the cave of Holy-Madeleine. Several traces of Neolithic habitat and the Bronze Age (prehistoric enclosure with Piegros and Vieilhas) were discovered on the soil. Second age of Iron, the tribes celto-Ligurians install two camps surrounded by large stone walls in Castellas. The Roman occupation left abundant vestiges with Enguerne and the Rocket.

Templiers

The origins of Montmeyan must be attached to the Templiers and the priory of Saint-Maurin, now located in the commune of Régusse. In October 1164, Hugues de Montmeyan becomes knight of the Temple and concedes in Saint-Maurinn with the agreement of his brothers, the ground of " Champlong" as well as the rights of pasture on all the territory of Montmeyan. A conflict then opposes the commander of the priory to a family of local lords: Blachères, which asserts their rights on grounds belonging to the Order. In November 1170, they give up their claims definitively and give to the priory a bordering ground the Verdon, on which the knights of the Temple will be able to build mills and fullers. The ruins of one of these mills with grains are visible today in edge of the river, testimony of the early utilistation of water of the the Verdon like driving force. In March 1201, the family of Blacas of Aulps yields to the house of Saint-Maurin all the rights which it has on the castrum Moissac, as well as the right of pasture on all its grounds. In 1206, Pons Albert, his brother Guides Baudinard and his/her sisters, lords of Baudinard, connects lords of Aups, grant in their turn the right of grazing ground on the territory of Baudinard. In 1207, lords of Riez, Spata and G.Augier makes donation of the seigneuriaux rights that they have with Quinson. Thus the primarily pastoral vocation of the priory of Saint-Maurin appears. Templiers become Masters of the castrum with his tower, its terresn its men and thus had very important land goods with Montmeyan, Coutelas (hamlet of Villeneuve attached to the commune of Régusse), Régusse, Quinson, Riez and Moissac.

After the disappearance about the Temple

After the disappearance of the order, the ground of Montmeyan was joined together with the field of the royal court of Provence, on January 6th 1309 then passed to the hands the Hospital ones of Midsummer's Day of Jerusalem. Then resold) Arnaud de Trians, nephew of the pope Jean XXI, in exchange of its county of Aliffe, in the Kingdom of Naples. The Famille of Castellane takes again the territory in 1409 following the marriage with the little girl of Arnaud, then it is his/her son Honore, brother of Reforciat and Raimond-Geoffroy, inherited the grounds of Régusse and Montmeyan. At the 16th century, seven coseigneurs shared of it the seigniory, set up in 1651 in marquisat, in favor of Jean-Auguste of Foresta. The Grimaldi were the last lords of the place before the French revolution.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of the VAr

External bonds

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

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