Plessix-Balisson
Plessix-Balisson ( Ar Breton Genkiz-Yuzhael in ) is a common department of the Coast-with Armor, in the area Brittany, in France.
Geography
With a surface of 8 ha only, Plessix-Balisson is the least extended commune of its department and the second smaller commune of France (after Castelmoron-with Albret). It is entirely wedged in the commune of Ploubalay.
History
Lords of Plessis
The first lord of Plessis was called Geoffroy Baluçon, wire of the Viscount Alain Brient and Muliel. He came from the Vicomté of Poudouvre which was a great feudal stronghold whose capital was probably the Viscount, in Dinard, while, the seat of the deanery, was at least originally, Corseul, then Saint-Enogat towards the end of the 15th century.
Geoffroy had a great mind of faith, shared besides by his wife. One could read: “That it is known of all that me, Geoffroy Baluçon, gave and conceded; in pure alms with, Happy Marie of St Aubin of Wood, with the approval of my son Alain, a wheat mine on the farm of Rogerais in Ploubalay and another mine on the dîme of Clover one Corseul for the redemption of my heart and of the heart of my predecessors. ”
It is thus name or rather of its first lord, who accepted in Apanage this dismemberment of the Viscount paternal that Plessis became Plessis Baluçon or Balisson.
We do not know which were the limits of Plessis â this time. It is not doubtful that part of Corseul concerned this seigniory like Créhen, Ploubalay almost in entirety belonged to him as well as broad enclaves in Lancieux and other surrounding parishes. Geoffroy Baluçon was thus a top and powerful lord.
He made build in his stronghold of Plessis a strong castle of which there does not remain any more but the site. It is around this fortress that grouped the components of a large seigniory of the Middle Ages, a justice with court and judges, of finances with tax officers, an about complete military organization. Thus was born the borough from Plessis-Balisson.
The fortress of Plessis was for the inhabitants the sure deposit of their harvests and their goods. In the event of incursion it gave a shelter. It was the safety of the area. More especially as this castle was built on a nipple with the confluence of small brooks whose meeting formed a vast pond which made it possible to the defenders to cover water to prevent the access of the fortress. Today, this pond was transformed into meadows and marshes
The shape of the castle was triangular. Deep ditches which one always distinguishes and which are planted of trees today, surrounded it with the three quarters. The pond fed the ditches. Unfortunately, the demolitions were such, that it is impossible to fix the number and the site the turns. A deep well dug in the center of the one of them, there or was to be the main courtyard, remains the only vestige of the castle.
A well-known folklorist wrote in 1912, “that it had been â to pass to Plessis little time after the update of the substructures of the castle, there is that approximately 50 years. The base of the turns showed that they were to be less large than those of the Guildo. It is said to him that one had found much bones, of bats, by clearing them. The base of the one of the turns which did not have any more that some bases had made him think of those of the Léhon.
The descent of Geoffroy Baluçon
One does not know the date of dead first lord of Plessix. It left a son, Alain, but one does not know large-thing about his descent. Some say that it was Baluçon, this Guillaume of Plessix counted among the 34 bannerets Breton which accompanied Philippe Auguste with the Bataille by Bouvines in 1214.
It was still Baluçon, this Geoffroy who became chancellor of the apostolic Church of Tours and protonotaire. He was the chancellor of the king Philippe Beautiful the and interfered with forwarding with greatest businesses his time. The pope Clément V charged it, even of several important missions. In 1295, this Geoffroy Baluçon had dignities and benefit.
In May 1296, it is employed in a royal diploma like agent of the executors of the queen Isabelle d' Aragon, mother of Philippe the Beautiful one. As a secretary of Philippe the Beautiful one, it was often employed like advising and negotiator. Thus it belonged to a mission sent to Rome to obtain from the pope Benoît XI, the cancellation of the bubbles fulminated against Philippe the Beautiful one by Boniface VIII. In 1306-1307, Geoffroy was used several times as intermediary between the king and the pope Clément V.
Geoffroy Baluçon made name one of his nephews to the évêché of Évreux. Towards the end of its life, it was withdrawn in the hotel which it had in top of the street Saint-Jacob in Paris. It made transform this hotel into college under the name of Saint-Martin-with-Mount of Paris, which made it possible 40 stock-brokers to make their studies free.
In end Geoffroy Baluçon died in 1332, with the abbey of Marmoutier of Turns, where it was withdrawn after having made religious profession. The abbots of Marmoutier directed thereafter during three hundred years the college of Plessix. This college, becoming too expensive, was yielded to the Sorbonne (1646) to the three following conditions:
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to fill the intentions of the founders (inter alia, to accept BALUCON suited to the studies);
- to request for them;
- to repair the building.
Until the 18th century, the lords of Plessix still avoided title of founders of the college of Plessix. Thus, Madam de Launay of the Bridge-Cornou, in Ploubalay, made many steps so that one of her sons, in the capacity as descendant of Baluçon obtained a purse.
Little by little, Baluçon dispersed and the seigneuriale family knew the extinction. The result was the ruin of the feudal castle at the 15th century. Perhaps had it already to suffer from the wars that were done about 1390, the Constable of Clisson and Jean IV of Brittany. But the end of the castle is explained especially by the extinction of the elder branch of Baluçon and the passage by alliance of the castle, with foreigners who, residing far from Plessix, neglected to maintain the walls, which finally crumbled.
However the race of Baluçon did not disappear as quickly as the walls of the castle collapsed. One quotes a Guillaume Baliczon de Saint-Potan with a review of weapons with Moncontour in 1469. Olivier of Plessis owner of “Karpostant” in Ploubalay in 1448. A Roland Baliczon in Créhen in 1461.
The branches juniors by Baluçon remained until our time, amongst other things Launay of “Wood be Lucas” in Saint-Cast which are descendants of Launay of the “Bridge-Cornou” and Launay-Comats, puînés of Balissons. The manor of the Rock in Lancieux was also the residence of other juniors who took the name of this ground. Their escutcheon with Leopards as that of Baluçon testifies some. The “Guérais of Argentais” in Ploubalay were Juveigneur ies of Baluçon.
Administration
Demography
Tourist monuments and places
- Church of the 19th century.
External bonds
- Official site of the town hall
- Plessix-Balisson on the site of INSEE
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