Pole-Gouët

The Pole-Gouët is an old area of France located at approximately 130 kilometers with the west-south-west of Paris. It extends from Nogent-le-Rotrou and Montmirail with Alluyes, Illiers-Combray and Arrou, essentially in current the Eure-et-Loir and to some extent in the Loir-et-Cher and the the Sarthe.

Bordered in the east by the Beauce (and the Dunois), in north and the west by the Maine and the Pole (or Large-Pole and the valley of the Huisne) and in the south by the Vendômois, the Pole-Gouet (or Small Pole) car its name of Guillaume Gouët, lord of Montmirail, Authon and Bazoche which, the first, gave a certain unit to this area. The Pole-Gouët culminates to 256 m of altitude to the signal of Raoul Fountain.

Origins

The beginnings of the settlement of the Pole-Gouët go back to the 6th century, time to which several hermits come from Orleans withdrew themselves in the wood of the Perche to found churches there: Avitus and Carilephus, then Boamirus, Ulfacius, Leobinus and Almirus, which gave rise to Saint-Avit, Saint-Calais, Saint-Bomer, Saint-Ulphace, Saint-Lubin-of-Five-Font and Gréez-on-Rock.

After having successively belonged to the woman of Clovis II and to the bishop of Chartres which made there build the first fortresses, in order to protect itself from the invasions Normans, the area knew its first unification by the marriage of the girl of Gauthier d' Alluyes and Guillaume Gouët. The grandson of Guillaume Gouët, Guillaume III, contributed to this unit by carrying out several wars against the counts of the Pole: the Pole-Gouët had been born.

Five baronnies

Under the old mode and until in 1790, the Pole-Gouët consisted of five baronnies: Alluyes (known as the Rich person), Husks (the Noble one), Authon (the Pig mould), the Bazoche (the Cankered one) and Montmirail (the Superb one).

The unit of the Pole-Gouët was ensured by its habit, respected in all the parishes concerning these five baronnies, without true bond neither feudal, neither legal nor administrative with Large the Pole. On the legal level, the Pole-Gouët depended on the royal bailliage of Janville and on the administrative level of the General information of Orleans, election of Châteaudun.

The five baronnies included/understood about thirty parishes whose current distribution in modern cantons is the following one:

To older periods, others parishes belonged, entirely or not, with the Pole-Gouët: Furnace bridges-Tuboeuf, Beaumont-le-Chartif, Béthonvilliers, Coudray-with-Pole, Étilleux, Saint-Bomer, Saint-Pilgrim, Saint-Ulphace.

The geographical reality of today joined the historical reality of at one time: if Alluyes approaches more Beauce by its aspect, Saint-Bomer or Soizé approaches more of the Perche by their localization.

External bonds

the site of Authon-of-Pole and its canton

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