Prudemanche

Prudemanche is a common French, located in the department of Eure-et-Loir and the area Center.

Geography

The territory of the commune extends on two very different landscapes:

in the north, limited by the course of Meuvette, a very wooded landscape, on the stony ground, with through which the surface waters dug some small valleys to reach the river,
in the south, a very open landscape belonging to the plate of Laons whose first pieces were cleared a few millenia before our era, by the peasants of the Neolithic time which one preserved the monuments Mégalithique S at wood of the Valleys and close to Badainville. Here and there, axes, out of cut flint and polished, with which these peasants cleared the area were found in rather great number.

History

Since the Prehistoric time , the ground was exploited without slackening. Agrarian traces of enclosure, close to the farm of the Cabin, waste of the metallurgy of iron close of Bouverie, the complete potteries Gallo-Roman S found with the Red Grounds (burials?), and of the Roman coins in Peru, the effigy of the emperor Vespasien (69 - 79) attest the presence and the activities of a local human community at the times Gallic and Gallo-Roman.

The name of Marigny carries the mark of the Gallo-Roman language and teaches us that an agricultural domain bearing the name of its owner has being the embryo of this hamlet. This establishment is, undoubtedly, related to the fact that a Roman way, coming from Paris by Dreux, Escorpain and Corbonval, passed by the valley of the Cabin, and near Bouverie, to slip by on Cheigneuville (commune of Saint-Lubin-with-Cravant). It was a way still very attended at the 17th century by the travellers circulating between Paris and the areas of the West.

At the 12th century, or little front time, a noble knight who belonged to the militia of Hugues lord of Thimerais, gave near to the abbey of Coulombs a ground, of Marigny, called " pratum dominicum" , " the meadow of Seigneur" ; by deterioration, with the passing of years, this name would have given Prudemanche.

According to another assumption this name would come from Latin portus, throat of mountain, Mancha in connection with the configuration of its long and narrower territory as it advances towards North.

In 1184, the ground of Marigny is had, jointly, by the monks of Coulombs and the leprous ones of Beaulieu.

At the 12th century century, the field of Marigny is a seigniory, and, several parts with the Files of Eure-et-Loir, mention lord of Marigny.

In 1189, Guillaume de Marigny is quoted like witness in a Charter with the priory of Brezolles.

The abbey of Coulombs undoubtedly installed there a priory with a vault. This center was to become the parish of the community consisted all those and those which worked in this countryside. To the wire of the centuries, undoubtedly under the influence of Coulombs, at this community all the hamlets of the surroundings were attached to constitute the parish which we know today.

In 1298, Pierre de Marigny becomes the ninth abbot of the monastery of St Vincent at Chateauneuf in Thimerais.

In 1317, Louis de France, Count d' Évreux, wire of the king Philippe Bold the gives to Philippe Length, the ground of Marigny which Louis X had given to him Hutin.

In 1350, Marigny belongs to the family of Fayel, originating in the Vermandois and the Beauvaisis. This one receives it in compensation of the damage undergone under the English occupation during the reigns of Charles VI and Charles VII, the field of the Parakeet located on the left of the road of Brezolles to St Remy, opposite Marigny; (there does not remain about it any more any building today) but feudally Ferté-Vidame concerned

In 1669, Henri de Fayel, lord of Marigny and Parakeet was killed in the church of Blevy while taking part in a duel; here in which occasion:

"Sunday 20 October 1669, Charles of Paris, rider, sior of the Valley and Guillaume de Colas, sior of Baronval, were in dispute for the honorary rights. They had several times insulted and even struck the priest of Blévy in function. II acted to know which of the two gentlemen was to have water bénite and the bread blesses. Not having been able to agree, each applicant joins together in the church of Blévy, several of his/her friends, armed with swords, guns and rifles. One started by threatening oneself on both sides, and soon one came to the ways in fact. One fought with eagerness in the church, which made leave the inhabitants as a crowd. Several rifle shots and of guns were drawn, whose sior of Baronval was killed on the place by the knight of Saint-Arnoult. The sior of Marigny was with the lady of the Valley, to which it gave the arm to draw it from the press, because it was about to be confined; it was wounded with death, close to the balustrade of the chorus. Houssaye pareillement was pareillement wounded with death, as well as Valley, principal attacker which died eight days after, of the continuation of its wounds. ”

Sixteen noble and two their servants who had taken part in this business, were judged supremely with Chartres by a composite commission of the officers of the baillage, chaired by a Master of the requests, intendant of Orleans. By judgment returned the 16 January 1670, they were declared criminal lese-majesty divine and human, and duly reached and convinced of illicit assemblies, premeditated combat, of " sacrileges and profanations made in the church of Blévy,… deposed of the privileges of nobility and declared wretched and commoners, etc.

" the sior of Marigny, declared dead, culprit of the known as crimes, " was condemned has 600 pounds of fines. For safety of the payment of this sum, all the strongholds of the Parakeet were seized. But the widow of Henri de Fayel, Marguerite of Gaillardbois, woman of courage and head, well supported besides, arrived, by selling a farm of 120 arpents which it had close to Laons, its silverware, etc, to make raise the sequestration and to restore the integrity of its field, less the farm of Laons; remainder this unhappy business, which was in manners of the time, did not harm of anything the consideration whose the house enjoyed Fayel, as one sees it thereafter.

In 1795, Charles Philippe François de Fayel died under the flags and his/her brother Louis Paul de Fayel remained unmarried. With the last representing of the family: Agnes, Marie, Jacqueline de Fayel died out this branch of Fayel de Marigny of the Parakeet.

During modern times, the parish did not know really big events. With the Revolution, the abolition of the privileges and the redistribution of the grounds having belonged to the great religious orders hardly changed mentalities.

The fact that in 1795, Louis Charles de Fayel, lord of the Parakeet and Marigny took simply the name of Marigny and died, mayor of Prudemanche in 1807 is significant peace which reigned at the village during this agitated time.

Three localities evoke a little what was formerly the life of the peasants of Prudemanche

"The old man moulin" located at the north of Bouverie in a raised place, released well, used the force of the wind to grind cereals cultivated with the surroundings.

"The vault of the gué" close to a ford on Meuvette allowing the passage of the way connecting the Oak-Simon to the hamlet of the Marl-pits a vault dedicated to the Virgin Mary rose whom one came to beseech to obtain the rain in the great years of dryness. This vault was abandoned before the Revolution.

"Marnières" a hamlet of some houses located in the valley of Meuvette was inhabited by will marnerons which extracted the marl to manufacture lime and to amend the grounds.

During two great world wars of the 20th century, the population knew the sufferings and mournings as all the communes of France but no act of war disturbed the countryside.

In the bell-tower of the church, the bell of which of Fayel was the godfather, continuous to sound for the gatherings of the community at the time of the baptisms, of the marriages and of the burials of those which have their root in this peaceful village.

Legends with the corner of fire (paid by E. Lefèvre in 1853) According to the oral tradition that I will reproduce, as accurately as possible, in all its naivety

the miraculous Fountain. - Not far from the way of Brezolles with Nonancourt, was a fountain famous in the locality, known as the fountain of Bougrins, and which never dries up. Its water, according to a popular belief, drawn before the rising of the sun and drunk continuation, with the property to cure fevers. Here the origin of this fountain,

“Like the friend of Our Lord (Saint-Lubin) went from a place called since Saint-Lubin-of-Joncherets the, with a place called since also Saint-Lubin-of-Cravant, the mule which it assembled having been thirsty, struck the ground of the one of his feet and thus gave the day to the fountain, then she drank. ”

The chronicle adds:

“With some steps of the fountain, Prudemanche, the mule ate bougrins (beaten corn ears) to satiety; but having arrived at Saint-Lubin-of-Cravant, it was so badly the EC what it had drunk and eaten in Prudemanche, that it burst. From there, the nickname of cravant which was given has this locality. ”

Source: Brezolles and its surroundings by Edouard Lefèvre Editions LMBO Universis 16 rue O Third, 80000 AMIENS

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Common of Eure-et-Loir

External bonds

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

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