Montséret
Montséret is a common French, located in the department of the Aude and the area Languedoc-Roussillon.
Its inhabitants is called Montsérétois.
The name of Moun Séré which gave Montséret later, does not come from sierra (mountain), but from sereno , a small African migratory bird (Guêpier in French) which still nowadays comes to nest in top of this rock. Another version gives the Serene Mont , but serene is also birds.
Blazon
When, by an edict of 1696, Louis XIV wants to cure the heraldic abuses, its advisers do not forget to make create new offices and to impose the recording of the armorial bearings. Community of Montséret which cannot finance such a project of which she did not see the utility since she shared the communal businesses with that of Saint-Andre-with-Roquelongue. Indeed these armorial bearings would have constituted of the marks of nobility and the signs of feudality, non-existent for these villages.
Geography
History
On the rocky outcrop of Roca Longua was built starting from Xère century, the castle of Moun Séré surrounded by its village fixed on the escarpés sides of the mountain. It was an imposing castle-extremely, with keep and double ramparts, with the image of its neighbor Saint-Martin-of-Hats, now restored.In 1153 Raingarde de Montseret founds here with the Ollieux , the first Cistercian abbey of women kingdom of France. This single Abbey for the time, will become in 1174 a priory attached to the Abbaye of Fontfroide, whose role will be determining during the Croisade against the Albigensians (Cathares).
In 1304, after the death of the Guillaume-Raimon Knight of the Borough, Lord of Montséret, and his/her son Arnaud, Ricarde remained only with his/her Mabile daughter to preserve and defend the family inheritance. With a savage energy, 20 years old Mabile decided to assume the heritage of the loads which his/her father bequeathed to him. Difficult company which required an activity and a not very common authority among the women of this time. In 1311, it lost its rights to Moun Séré with the profit of its very powerful neighbor the Abbaye of Fontfroide. After 18 years of baited fight, it will find its rights and its castle in 1329.
The castrum of Moun Séré was suddenly given up by its inhabitants in 1550, and was never again inhabited. The reason is not known (the plague perhaps), but it seems that all was done to make forget this place.
Later a new village was built in the plain, but it was not referred any more to the ruins of the mountain. Even the name of the place was changed: Bouisse or planted place of boxwood. Thus the villagers call still today this forgotten place of the memories.
The stones of the castle which had not been used to build the new village and the low walls of the ways of vines, were used as fill with the way of railroads of transitory the small train of Corbières. Thus disappeared in less than 2 years, keeps and double ramparts.
Administration
Demography
Culture, Soil and Produced
The common one has on its territory following qualitative names:
- Local wine of the Slopes of Cabrerisse except on the part in north of N613 (A3 section)
Places and monuments
- old Fountains
- néo-Romance Church Saint-Felix
- Banks of Aussou
- Site of the Roquelongue with the ruins of the castle cathare.
- Beautiful point of view of the site of the castle, miellery of the clauses with alive hives and hotel restoring the relay of Montseret.
Personalities related to the commune
- Noah Herve (1908-1999): resisting during the second world war then mayor of 1944 to 1974, was the figure of Montseret and marked of his print for long years the life of this village.
See too
- Common of the Aude
External bonds
- History of Monseret - Henry Coulondou
- Montséret on the site of the national geographical Institute
- Montséret on the site of INSEE
- Montséret on the site of Quid
- Localization of Montséret on a chart of France and communes bordering
- Plane on Montséret on Mapquest