Niafles is a common French, located in the department of the Mayenne and the area Pays of the Loire.
Geography
Niafles is located in the canton of Craon (4 km), in the district of Castle-Gontier (24 km Western) and at 32 km of Laval.Geology
“ Schists Precambrian S. a small gravel scrap with quartz rollers, the North of the borough (Bousculière) . ” Daniel Œhlert.Small territory rounded exactly around a central borough, whose plates reach 80 Mr., bordered in North-0uest then crossed West in the East by the Usure, which runs on the level of approximately 40 m.
The borough, of which a bridge on Wear damaged by the thaw and the flood of 1784 connected the two parts (sic), has direct roads for Craon (4 km Are); Bonchamp (4 km Southern); Saint-Martin-of-Cleat (4 500 m South-south-west); the Saddle-Craonnaise (3 km Western); Delivered (4 500 m Northern). The shoed line of Craon with Châteaubriant touched the South-eastern angle of the commune.
Surface
It was registered by Mr. Poilay, 799 hectares - “ Fonds poor, written of Niafle like whole the Craonnais Miroménil, 1696, including/understanding 741 arpents, knowledge: 387 out of arable lands, 142 in grazing ground, 110 in meadows, 51 out of wood, 51 in moors and ungrateful grounds ”.
History
Designation
- P. of Niafla , v. 1150;
- V. of Niaflis , v. 1150;
- Niapha , S.D.;
- the parroyse of Niafle , 1200;
- the rectour of Nyaffle , 1401;
- Saint Martin's day de Nialphe , 1411;
- Nyafle , 1428;
- Nyaffle , 1428;
- Nyaphle , 1549;
- Cure Saint Martin's day de Niafle , 1783;
- Niafle .
Feudality
The parochial seigniory, to which remained attached the effective patronage of the cure, belonged probably right from the start and certainly since the 17th century with the lords of the Moor of Niafles and was in the mobility of the baronnie of Craon.Pierre de Niafles, witness of a judgment in favor of the Abbey of Roë, towards 1150, and Vivien de Niafles which, about the same time, with his/her son and Robert Corbin, concedes with the monks a patch of land and the firewood for a monk apud cimeteriuni Tilliatae , were perhaps of a seigneuriale family.
One knows with the formal title lords of Niafles of the members of the Famille of Lantivy:
- Mathieu de Lantivy , lord also of the Island-Firebrand, 1624;
- Pierre de Lantivy , husband of Francoise de Mauméchin, 1635, 1674;
- Louis de Lantivy , husband of Marie Gouin, 1687, 1693;
- Louis-Pierre de Lantivy , husband of Marie-Anne of the Knighthood, 1697, 1702;
- Louis-Andre de Lantivy , wire of Louis Pierre-Jacques de Lantivy and Louise Langlois, 1775, 1790.
Historical notes
Localities of old names: Notched, Grez, Malaunay, Teillaie, the Key, Teil.The May 10th 1428, the parishioners, via Guillaume Doulxamy, Jean Sourfait, Robin Boessel and Jean Guillier, treat with Georges of Trémoille “ to have seureté and any abstinence of war with Angloys and their allies ”.
They revolt, Rene Guynoiseau, priest, at their head, against Jean Louyn, sergeant royal, who came the July 26th 1511 to force them to make the guet with the Château of Craon.
Without counting the common share that they had with the disasters of Craonnais during the disorders of the minority of Louis XIII, and in spite of the posts and the signs with the weapons of the Prince de Condé and the safeguard that it gave them against “ all people of war of some language which they are ”, or rather even because of their dependence of the revolted prince, the inhabitants had the visit either of the Vendômiste S, or of the troops of the king ordered by the marshal of Boisdauphin.
The captain the Vain ones arrived at Niafle fatty Sunday 1616 at two hours the night and only Tuesday left there at midday; the sior of Franqueville placed there Monday of the Low Sunday at two hours until Friday at midday.
Epidemic from July to September 1639.
The April 3rd 1796, combat against the Chouan S; two territorial guards of Craon are killed.
Administration
Town hall
Schools
Francoise-Catherine Belocier de Vallière, girl of Rene Belocier and Renee Gouin, founded a school with Niafles in 1714. The Abbé Angot does not know if this foundation merges with the conditional legacy of a sum of 3.000 books contained in a will of the April 22nd 1716 and ascribable to a schoolmistress which would take care of the patients, if the general hospital of Craon, then in the process of formation under the term of Saint-François-in Assise, would not lead. At the beginning of the 20th century, the co-educational school equipped by the Daudier family, is held since 1841 by the sisters of Briouze.
Religion
Parish
The parish was in the past Diocèse of Angers, archidiaconé of In addition to-Maine and deanery of Craon; - election of Castle-Gontier, legal spring and Attic with salt of Craon; - district and canton of Craon in 1790; - joined together with the Diocese of Mans by the Legal settlement; set up in branch by decree of the 5 nivôse year XIII, the archpriest of Castle-Gontier and the deanery of Craon.Priests
Presbytery rented in 1802, restored by Mr. Vérité. Separate cemetery of the church by the road of Craon with Saint-Aignan.
Demography
Average of the births: 21, of 1602 with 1612; - 25, of 1700 with 1710. - 50 fires “subjets with the guet, Craon, 15th century”; - 104 fires in 1688; - 96 fires in 1696; - 93 fires in 1700; - 95 fires in 1715; - 400 hab. in 1726; - 96 fires in 1732; - -104 fires in 1768; - 437 hab. in 1803; - 337 hab. in 1821; - 347 hab. in 1831; - 415 hab. in 1841; - 487 hab. in 1851; - 452 hab. in 1861; - 415 hab. in 1871; - 429 hab. in 1881; - 402 hab. in 1891; - 416 hab. in 1900, including 127 agglomerates in the borough and the remainder disseminated in 27 villages, farms, small estates or variations.One counted 54 farms in 1843. In depend: Goupillère, 38 hab.; Nicouillère, 22 hab.; hovels, 17 hab.; the castles of the Moor and the Mound-Daudier, formerly Hulinière, and two mills.
Places and monuments
Saint Martin's day church
The old church, replaced at the end of the 19th century, dedicated to Holy Martin, included/understood only one nave originally and a chorus in apse and had been increased at the 17th century and 18th centuries of two vaults forming transept, and a small bell-tower in the center. Two small Romance windows existed, one at midday, the other in, northern. One recognized by demolishing it that the chorus rested on a dry stone solid mass.The vault of the Virgin, “ made by the benefit of Pierre de Lantivy, sior of the Moor, and fire Rene Lemanceau, cleaned ”, was bénite in 1641. Mr. Cordon, cleaned, made build with his expenses the vault Holy-Catherine, cut down the wall between the chorus and the sacristy, and build a vault by François Legeay, Master-mason, in 1701. In 1705, it made repave the church in blocks bought to the Borough-Philippe, replaced the altar stone Holy-Catherine, opened a door at side and put in the vault a table “ where are, says he, Holy-Catherine, Saint-Sebastien, Holy-Blaise and Holy-Émérance, because one has particular devotion and voyage in this church with these saints. ” One mentions also a furnace bridge of Saint-Jean-Baptist in 1628.
In 1712, “ the architects ” poses the bases of the large furnace bridge new all at the bottom of the chorus. Since the French revolution, the two vaults were dedicated to the Blessed Virgin and Sebastien saint. A fragment of stained glass representing the Vierge with the Chair went up in a window of the sacristy.
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the vault of Holy-Catherine, founded in 1542 by Élie Lallier, cleaned, increased by Rene Gouin, July 11th 1669, and served initially in the vault of Cruardière; among the chaplains: François Trochon, 1652; Andre-Louis Ferron, vicar, 1789;
- the vault of the Apple orchard, rested by Rene of Chesnaye, the titular November 25th 1500 in 1641 Rene Bellanger.
Castles
See also: Castle of the Moor of Niafles
See also: Castle of the Mound-Daudier
Personalities related to the commune
Appendices
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