Ségur-the-castle

Ségur-the-Castle is a common French, located in the department of the Corrèze and the area the Limousin.

Geography

The commune is located on the Rivière Auvézère

History

The Viscount of Ségur was born at the 9th century, at the time of the feudal scattering of the Limousin. At the end of the next century, Emma, single heiress of the Viscount of Ségur married Guy Ier of Limoges. Thus during six hundred years, the city of Ségur and its stronghold were going to be held by the Viscounts of Limoges. However, the territory of the castle pertaining to the canons of Saint-Yrieix, the Viscounts were to pay the homage to them. Ségur was never the capital of the Viscount, but the lords resided at it regularly as the many rehandlings testify some to the castle. But especially, the Viscounts install there some families of knight-vassal as well as a certain number of officers charged to return justice. The city was the seat of a châtellenie which extended, in a ray of 15 km, on ten parishes. However, Ségur became a parish itself only in 1749.

During the One hundred Year old war, the fortress of Ségur, confiscated by the king of France, became place-strong royal managed by captains on whom the Viscounts did not have any right to watch. Meanwhile, the Viscount of Limoges had passed, since the end of the 13th century, to the houses of Brittany and Blois which were hardly worried city of Ségur. However, in first half of the 15th century, the Jean Viscount of Blois known as “of the Eagle”, captain with the service of king de France, managed to associate with his Viscount limousine the county of Périgord and consequently thought to make of Ségur the general seat of his justice of call. This “court of the bird calls” judged in first incoming call ordinary justices seigneuriales and the Parliament of Paris. It is undeniable that it is the installation of this extraordinary court which instigated there, and demography, and the economic life of this borough castral. Indeed, any recourse against a legal decision made in one of the 150 jurisdictions of the Viscount of Limoges and the county of Périgueux was to be discussed before the court of the bird calls of Ségur, before being if required carried before the royal Parliament. Thus is explained this large wave of constructions and rebuildings of residences of qualities during 15th and 16th centuries. Meanwhile, in 1468 precisely, the Viscount of Limoges passes by marriage to Albret, in the person of Alain d' Albret, great-great-grandfather of Henri IV.

During the 16th century, the Viscounts sold Ségur in Pérusse, family which had already bought a great number of houses and hotels at the previous century before buying the castle and the seigniory. Pérusse remained lords of Ségur until the middle of the 17th century, time to which, the whole of their territories passed to the family of Hautefort. But, the Viscount of Limoges had been attached to the Crown after the advent of Henri IV with the throne of France, in 1607. Since then, the radiation and the dynamism of the city were reduced appreciably. In 1750, the court of the bird calls was removed by an edict of the king; thus the middle-class families left little by little Ségur involving the decline of the economic activity thus. In 1795, the castle was bought in Hautefort by the former farmer, Gabriel Dumas-Lavareille, of the family which became mayor of Ségur.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of Corrèze

Stage

External bonds

Ségur-the-Castle on the site of the national geographical Institute
Ségur-the-Castle on the site of INSEE
Ségur-the-Castle on the site of Quid
Localization of Ségur-the-Castle on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Ségur-the-Castle on Mapquest
lacorreze.com photographs of the village

Sources

Bernadette Barrière and Christian Rémy, Ségur-the-Castle , Limoges, PULIM, 2002

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