Puymirol

Puymirol is a common French, located in the department of Lot-et-Garonne and the area Aquitaine.

Its inhabitants are called Puymirolais.

Geography

Old country house located on the Séoune

History

Sat on a plate escarpé with 153 meters of altitude, the town of Puymirol is old a country house the thirteenth one created by Raymond VII, count of Toulouse, on a ground yielded by Pierre of Rheims , bishop of Agen. The date of 1246 is given like that of the foundation of this place considered impregnable.

However, the words enlarging, transformation and installation would seem more equitable because a center of population was there already, close to a Château and a church dedicated to Seurin saint. This primitive borough had as a name Saint-Seurin-of-Large-Manor house and its origin was to be extremely old since its Foire S is quoted in an act of the year 1100.

A new church, built at the same time as the country house, was placed under the term of Our-Lady-in-the Assomption. Little by little, the name of Puymirol, given to the country house, made forget that of Large-Manor house.

In 1286, Edouard I {{er}}, King of England, granted news habit S the inhabitants of the city. These privileges were considerable because, during the alternatives of English or French occupation, each party had interest to increase on the favors and concessions to make sure the contest and obedience of the inhabitants of such an important place. All the cities of the Agenais were besieged, taken and taken again many time since the war of the Albigensians until those of the Fronde. However, Puymirol had to undergo less attacks than the majority of the others, undoubtedly because it seemed impregnable. It was besieged without success, in 1324, by the French troops; it was then defended by one of the best captains of the English party, Amanieu of Fossat , lord of Madaillan.

During the wars of the sixteenth century, Puymirol, attacked by the Protestants in November 1569, was defended victoriously by François of Montpezat . But, in 1574, the Protestants succeeded in occupying it, perhaps by treason, and were maintained there until the advent of Henri IV. This prince, whereas it guerroyait in Guyenne, had done of Puymirol one of the places of safety to which it seemed to have held particularly.

This city represents the perfect type of the cities Médiéval are. The enclosure which followed the contour of the plate had a 790 meters length over a width from 90 to 250 meters. Four doors of unequal dimensions were bored in this enclosure. Puymirol is, in the direction its length, several streets which are cut by other perpendiculars and the place of the Angles is almost in the center. Three then, regularly spaced in the central street, were used to supply the population.

At the 16th century, the Saint-Seurin church, located out of the walls, and the urban church Notre-Dame were destroyed by the Protestants who employed materials with the fortifications. The forever raised first. Second, the beautiful porch and the Clocher were only saved.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Traditions

The current church of Puymirol, which was rebuilt at the 17th century, under the direction of the architect Barberette , is true a Nécropole. Under its flagstones are lying a very great number of former middle-class men of the city.

For the period of 1701 with 1781, one raised there nearly four hundred burial S. Generally, the tombs are aligned in edge between the walls and the way of stone which skirts them towards the main roads of the nave. By affirming the right of bench , one bought the right of burial under the same bench. In theory, the faithful ones invested of a function were buried under the bench reserved to their load, the judges under the bench of justice, in front of the baluster, side Gospel, the consuls under the consular bench, with the height of the precedent, side epistle, the priests in the chorus S, the vicars with the Sacristie, the regents under the Chaire, the notaries opposite, etc

Under the Old Mode, the corn exchange of Puymirol was one of most important of Guyenne. The transactions reached a all the more high figure there as the traders of the juridition brought enormous quantity of grains bound for the colonies. Embarked either with Lafox, or to Laspeyre, these food products descended the the Garonne until Bordeaux where they borrowed the sea route. The market with cereals was regularly held Tuesday and Friday of each week and the communal clerk was charged to record the courses on the fourleau or delivers reprimands. These carefully preserved documents make it possible from day to day to note, during three centuries, the variations of the price of the wheat, the millet or the boilermen. Sometimes however one finds the mention following: " … null market because of the fairs of the Gravel , with Agen " or " The market was not held because it coincided with the festival of Notre-Dame of septembre" . The following mention which appears in the date of 1752 ( " Not market in consequence of the feste of Crocotaro in present the ville" ) is explained by the procession instituted after the terrible epidemic of Peste which devastated Puymirol in 1363. On the basis of the church Notre-Dame of Large-Manor house , one carried Blessed Sacrament through the streets of the city then around the angles and one went to the citadel of the prisons. This religious ceremony proceeded during several centuries, each year, third Friday of March, pursuant to the wishes of aïeux puymirolais: " If people well thinking manage by their prayers to entreat the plague, an annual procession will be made in memory of this catastrophe and the délivrance."

Rampart S of Puymirol, built (or restored) in 1283 and demolished under Louis XIV, there remains some fractions applied, that and there, in the vacuum of the rocks. Citadel, high in the east to defend the most accessible point, it has nothing any more but the site there from where a superb sight is discovered.

In the city, a certain number of houses which have blind arcades in broken clotheshanger, perhaps going back to the thirteenth century, are neighborly with others, extremely beautiful, fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Personalities related to the commune

Others

the brigade of gendarmerie of Puymirol.
the Public swimming pool.
cabins of Aubergade.

See too

Common of Lot-et-Garonne
List of the spangled restaurants by the Guide Michelin

External bonds

Puymirol on the site of the national geographical Institute

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