Saint-Ganton

Saint-Ganton (Sant-Weganton) is a common French, located in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine and the area Brittany. The commune of Saint-Ganton belongs to the canton of Pipriac.

Geography

History

Saint-Ganton comes from Guenganton saint or Hingueten, monk of the abbey of Saint-Méen or bishop of Valves in VIIème century.

Saint-Ganton, old trève of Pipriac, is a dismemberment of the primitive parish of Pipriac. With the whole beginning of XIème century, the monks Benedictines of the abbey of Saint-Méen base a priory on the territory of Pipriac. This priory is placed under the patronage of saint Gwenganton (abbot and restorer of Saint-Méen, of 1008 to 1040). Saint Gwenganton or Guéganton or Hingueten, of Breton origin, was seems it one of the first successors of Méen saint to the convent of Midsummer's Day de Gaël. It should be noted that Hingueten, abbot of Saint-Jacut, are charged in 1008 by the Havoise duchess and princes Alain and Eudon, his children, to restore the monastery of Saint-Méen and Saint-Judicaël. It is thus after this time that it is necessary to fix the date of the foundation of the priory, which is dedicated to him in the parish of Pipriac.

About the XVIIIème centuries one managed all the sacraments with Saint-Ganton, and the priest of the place tested even during some time to say vice-chancellor; but the vice-chancellors of Pipriac opposed this attempt and consequently took possession of the church of Saint-Ganton after being themselves installed in that, of Pipriac. In 1803 only, SaintGanton was set up in parish, depend on évêché on Saint-Malo (Pouillé of Rennes).

In 1440, the seigniories of Bossac and Thébaudais (or Thébaudaye) are joined together in only one châtellenie. Thébaudaye becomes the residence of the lords of Bossac following the destruction of the castle of Bossac in Bruc-on-Aff during the wars of the Middle Ages. In 1637, Jean Peschart obtains the erection of this ground as a Viscount.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

INHERITANCE of SAINT-GANTON

The church Saint-Quentin (about 1669 - 1831 - 1857 - 1861), work of the architect Joseph Fleury Chanantais. In the beginning, this church had as an owner a Breton saint, holy Guenganton, confessor, celebrated on May 10th in the abbey of Saint-Méen; but the priest Thomas Cockerel, having rebuilt this building, warned himself to dedicate his new church to Quentin saint, whose patronage still remains. He called even his trève “parish of Saint-Quentin”, and always signed “vice-chancellor of Saint-Quentin”; but its superiors made good justice of its claims to the vice-chancellorship, and the inhabitants of Saint-Ganton do not admire the name change of their locality. It was towards 1669 that the church of Saint-Ganton was rebuilt, mainly thanks to generosities of Gabriel Peschart and Renee Dollier, lord and lady of Thébaudaye. Also in 1675 the lord of Thébaudaye had it straight to claim with the honors of the superiority and the foundation, and with preeminences in this church. He had in the chanceau a bench and a enfeu where had been buried, on the side of the Gospel, Georgine Tillon, lady of Thébaudaye, deceased in 1648, and as regards epistle François Peschart, lord of Thébaudaye, her husband, deceased in 1649. One, nowadays, heightened this building, to which a small tower with stone arrow was added, which produces good effect. One makes time unmemorable in this church a worship very particular to Eutrope saint. The fountain of happy borders the church and is decorated of a stone cross with stone trunk also, which seems a work of XVème century. Formerly the close parishes, in particular that of Guipry, came processionnellement to Saint-Ganton to the festival from Eutrope saint, and at the end of the XIXème century still a large fair is held to with it this day there. The primitive statue of the saint, out of granite and très-grossièrement cut, is certainly extremely ancient; it very-was at one time honoured and placed in the church close to the furnace bridge of Saint-Eutrope, mentioned in 1651. There were formerly some foundations in this church, but the factory did not have fixed income (Pouillé of Rennes). The church includes/understands a nave with right bedside and a transept. The high altar dates from the XIXème century. The sacristy goes back to 1846. The bell-tower goes back to 1857-1861. One finds a cross of XVème century there. The lords of Thébaudaye had formerly a enfeu in the chorus;

Former priory of Saint-Ganton, now missing, and formerly member of the abbey of Saint-Méen. The Declarations of the abbey of Saint-Méen mention the priory of Saint-Guenganton, member of this monastery; we look at as almost certain that it is here about the church of Saint-Ganton, formerly trève of Pipriac and today parish church. The name of this locality recalls well, indeed, that of saint Guenganton, confessor, whose monks of Saint-Méen acted as twelve lessons, on May 10th, and one has still found there the memory of an very-old religious house disappeared for several centuries. According to this local tradition, the priory of Saint-Ganton was at side and the North of the church, where rose later the Saint-Michel vault and where at the end of the XIXème century the house of school of the nuns is. There does not remain unfortunately any trace of this monastery; but it is probable that the goods of the priory of Saint-Ganton were alienated as of before XIVème century and that they gave rise to the small of the same seigniory name, of which the manor, still extremely interesting, borders the church. As for this church itself, initially priorale, then tréviale and finally parochial, it does not offer traces of extremely ancient architecture. Let us notice only that by building the house of school on the site of the old monastery, one found, in 1865, in old foundations of building, much of currencies carlovingiennes (abbot Guillotin de Corson);

The vault Saint-Cornély (1895);

The vault Saint-Mathurin (XVII-XXème century), property of the baronnie Bossac it Thébaudais. Saint-Mathurin was a vault frairienne mentioned in 1636. Located on the limits of Saint-Ganton and Saint-Just, it was disputed by these two parishes. It is said that it was rested by a lady of the surroundings. The lord of Thébaudaye had right to hold at side two fairs, with the festivals of Mathurin saint and Louis saint. The vault which still contains the statues of these two happy is a building of the XVIIème century without character, but maintained (Pouillé of Rennes);

The old Vault of the La Rochelle. The vault of the La Rochelle, located at the village of this name, depended, according to the local tradition, of a convent of women on whom we do not have any historical data;

The old vault of Saint-Michel. This vault passed, at the origin, to have depended on a monastery, probably on the priory of Saint-Ganton; but at the XVIIème century she was regarded as frairienne. Having been rebuilt at that time, it was bénite on October 19th, 1653 by Thomas Cochet. Prohibited about 1750, it does not exist today any more (Pouillé of Rennes);

The cross of Saint-Eutrope (XVIème century);

The old castle of Thébaudais or Thébaudaye (XVème century - 1619). Rebuilt about 1619 (with six turrets, four houses, of the ditches, of the drawbridges, a private vault and two dovecotes), the castle is burnt at the time of the Revolution, in 1790. It acts in the beginning of a manor built by the Thebaud family, property in XVème century of the Bossac family, and destroyed during the wars of succession of Brittany. The seigniory of Thébaudaye is plain with the seigniory of Bossac, the beginning of XVème century and until 1789. The seigniory of Bossac is sold to Jean Peschart. The son of this last, Gabriel Peschart (husband of Renee Dollier and baron de Bossac in 1685), is assassinated with Thébaudais in 1692, and one has claimed for this day that the ruins of Thébaudaye are haunted phantoms. The Saint-Roch vault of Thébaudaye was in the court of this manor. July 24th, 1642, François Peschart and Georgine Tillon, lord and lady of Thébaudaye, founded in this vault, “bastie in the honor of God and Sirs sainct Roc and sainct François”, two masses per week, Mondays and Fridays. In 1653, Georges Gerard served this vault, in which married in 1666 Charles Jolliff, lord of Daudaye, and Julienne of Bigotaye;

The town hall (XVII-XIXème century), still called the Rock. This building is the old vault Saint-Michel, still called " vault of Forêts" who goes back to the foundation of the priory in Xème century. This vault is used initially as parish church during the construction of the new church in 1669, then of school in 1847. The goods of the priory had been alienated before XIVème century and will give rise to the manor of Saint-Ganton or the Rock. The old manor of Saint-Ganton preserves two turrets of XVème century. Successive property of the families Febvre (in 1427 and 1513), Lescundet (in 1613), Peschart lords of Durantaye (in 1652), Fresne lords of Virel (at the XVIIIème century);

The fountain Saint-Eutrope (XIXème century);

The furnace (XXème century), located at the Beaucel locality;

The windmill of the Tomb and the water mill of the Forging mills;

To also announce:

The discovery of Carolingian coins close to the vault Saint-Michel;

The slag discovery in the wood of Beaucel, attesting the existence of old forging mills;

The old blue schist career;

Personalities related to the commune

List nonexhaustive Recteurs of the parish of Saint-Ganton:

Joseph Coignard (1803, deceased in 1815)

Jacques-Mathurin January (1815-1824)

Joseph the Breton one (1824-1837)

Julien Juhel (1837, deceased in 1852)

Joseph Gerard (1852, deceased in 1868)

Pierre Gaudin (as from 1868)

Names of some priests of Saint-Ganton before 1790:

Mathurin Macéot (1613), deceased on March 19th, 1648 and buried in the church, in front of the furnace bridge of Notre-Dame

Thomas Cockerel (1648), deceased on September 21st, 1671, buried in the church, close to the chanceau

Jean June (1671-1681)

Jean Herve (1682), deceased on December 6th, 1713 and buried in the church

Julien Gefflot (1715-1754)

Guillaume Bars (1754)

Julien Laurent (1776)

Joseph Coignard (1777), which became vice-chancellor in 1803

FORMER NOBILITY of SAINT-GANTON

The seigniory of Thébaudaye: The manor of Thébaudaye (or Thébaudais) built on the territory of Saint-Ganton, old trève of Pipriac, set up later in parish, owed its name in Thébaud which the history did not keep to remember. This in the beginning a noble house of little importance had to be besides belonging as of the beginning of XVème century to the lords of Bossac, in Bruc. But the castle of Bossac having been destroyed by the wars of the Middle Ages, its owners were established in Thébaudaye which took of their stay an air of size. As of 1440 they usually lived there and the two seigniories of Bossac and Thébaudaye did not form any more whereas only one qualified châtellenie baronnie of seniority. We already made known the first lords de Bossac and of Thébaudaye belonging successively to the families of the Mound, the Perrier, Laval and Coligny. In 1630, Francoise de Coligny, widow of Rene de Talensac, sold Bossac and Thébaudaye to François Peschart, lord of Bienassis, in Pipriac. These lords usually remaining in Thébaudaye, made of this manor an important house. Four courses closed of walls surrounded the principal home seigneurial, rebuilt about 1619; this great wall square was flanked of six turrets and four houses in the shape of bastions; deep ditches determined this whole of constructions in which one penetrated only by means of drawbridges. In the courses rose two dovecotes and a vault dedicated to Roch saint. Around extended from vast gardens and two partly encircled parks “walls” (foot-note: A popular legend allots the discontinuity of these walls of the park of Thébaudaye to the sorrow which a lady of the place tested while learning with the sight of a dead magpie which she would die one day. This legend of the lady and the magpie finds elsewhere, in Brittany, at the edge of the sections of Roman ways and we told that of Thébaudaye in our Traditions and legends of High-Brittany, 175) containing hundred ground newspapers together. Of this beautiful residence seigneuriale, it remains today only of formless ruins; but on these collapsing walls the imagination of the people sees certain nights appearing great covered phantoms of ensanglantés shrouds; it is old ravaged lord and lady of Thébaudaye, then assassinated in their own residence. Here the historical origin of these alarming popular traditions. We have just said that François Peschart acquired in 1630 the seigniory of Thébaudaye; it lived this manor with his wife Georgine Tillon whom he lost in 1648; itself died the following year; their bodies were buried with the chanceau church of Saint-Ganton of which they were the badges benefactors. Their son Gabriel Peschart then became baron de Bossac and owner of Thébaudaye. Being still minor, one gave him for curator his relative Louis of Bouëxic, lord of the Vault, born into 1623 of Claude of Bouëxic, adviser in Présidial of Rennes, and Marie Peschart. This Louis of Bouëxic married in 1650 Marie Cybouault, girl of the lord of Pinieux. Early, Gabriel Peschart made great expenditure and contracted debts. Wanting to go purchaser of the strongholds that the baron de Renac had in Pipriac and Bruc and wished to sell, it made a loan and obtained from Louis of Bouëxic a guarantee of 28.625 books. It is into 1659 that the baron de Bossac bought the strongholds of Renac; two years later, on April 30th, 1661, he married in Nantes Renee Dollier de Casson, girl of Claude Dollier and Francoise of Cailluns, lord and lady of Plessix, in Glass fragment, and of Dévoriaye, in Fougeray. The new husbands resided at Thébaudaye where was born to them a named son, on February 16th, 1662, Louis-François, on the baptismal font of Saint-Ganton. Then they went to live Rennes, and they had there seven children, all baptized in the Saint-Etienne church of this city: Gabriel in 1663, Marie in 1665, Rene in 1668, Louise in 1670, Marguerite in 1671, Suzanne in 1674, and another Marguerite in 1676 (parochial Registers of Saint-Ganton and Saint-Etienne of Rennes). These many children died relatively young people; Louise died the last in 1701. Become knight of the Orders of Saint-Lazare and the Mount-Carmel, Gabriel Peschart will obéra its fortune more and more. Many creditors, the lord of the Vault at the head, expressed fears and wanted to be refunded. The baron de Bossac did not have the required funds; he sought to excuse himself, applicant whom his goods had been badly managed during its minority. Mr. and Mrs. of Bouëxic then asked him to yield the baronnie of Bossac and Thébaudaye to them to be released, but he refused to do it. However, in 1677, being one day with the manor of the Vault, at Mrs. of Bouëxic, Gabriel Peschart was pressed so much by this lady which he promised to sell to him Bossac and Thébaudaye with the price of 130.000 books. The sale contract at this price, indeed, was written and signed on June 23rd, 1677, but in condition of repurchase during nine years, “between Gabriel Peschart, baron de Bossac, and rams Marie Cybouault, separate wife of goods of Louis of Bouexic, lord of the Vault” (Files of Ille-et-Vilaine, Collobel funds). One year later died the lord and rams Vault: Louise Cybouault the first, on April 29th, 1678, and Louis of Bouëxic the next on October 23rd (Files of Ille-et-Vilaine, funds of Bigne-Villeneuve). They left for heirs two children. Louis of Bouëxic, lord of Pinieux, which, become to advise at the Parliament, married, in 1683, Susanne Grout, - and Marie of Bouëxic, rams Vault. What arrived then? It appears that Gabriel Peschart refused to leave Mr. and Miss of Bouëxic to take possession of Thébaudaye, that it had sold with regret with their mother. It left Brittany besides and was withdrawn in Paris; but it there was stopped, on April 11th, 1679, under the charge of “rebellion and perjury” and was by order of the King locked up in Fort-l' Evêque. Slackened however while his business was informed, he then saw beginning against him a procedure which lasted even more than twenty years afterwards. As for his wife Renee Dollier, it remained in Brittany and continued to live Thébaudaye. However Mr. de Pinieux, not being able to enjoy peacefully this house which he claimed to belong to him, solved to enter there by force. On Friday, January 28, 1685, five or six riders ran up against the door of the one of the courses of the manor, but on the refusal which one made open to them they went from there. “Two days after which was one day of Sunday, on both or three hours after midday, the sior of Pinieux returned to that the castle of Thébaudaye, accompanied by thirty to forty people armed with swords, rifles, snap hooks and guns; all which being approached of the same door of the aforesaid the court, required with anger that one opened to them”, which one refused to them. And then solicited Mr. de Pinieux of speaking with the lady about Bossac “which approached the door and made him answer which if it avoit only its ordinary train it him ouvriroit, but that in the state where it étoit, it avoit very to be apprehended and which it him ouvriroit not. And at the same moment having the sior of Pinieux shouted with his people: insert the door, kills, kills, mordieu! they inserted the aforementioned door and entered in the aforementioned court confusedly, the naked sword with the hand, the bandaged guns and rifles out of cheek… And being to the perron of the house, they assembled the degree and with axes and small joists, they broke and inserted the door and entered the body of the home” (foot-note: These facts and those which follow are extracted from a printed Report, addressed to the bishop of Valves by Renee Dollier de Casson, rams of Bossac in 1702. In this bulky Mémoire are brought back the depositions of a great number of witnesses of any condition, priests, gentlemen, middle-class man, craftsmen and plowmen, country of Pipriac). Frightened rightly, the baroness of Bossac had taken refuge in an apartment of the castle, in company of an old guard-of-body of the King, Henri Héban, lord of Breil-Guiron, and some servants, but “having opened the window of the room where it étoit”, it was attacked insults and even of stones and had to withdraw itself at the bottom of the apartment. Thus was locked up Mrs. de Bossac, captive in her own castle of the lord of Pinieux which was joined by his wife in Thébaudaye. Renee Dollier had much sorrow during her imprisonment to find her subsistence. The maidservant whom it sent to seek of the bread to the bakery of the castle found it vacuum and had to return as fast as possible close to her mistress to avoid ill treatments. Mathurin Mill, its servant, was not happier; overpowered bellows and kicks, it was put at torture: one passed to him between the fingers three pieces of wood dependant with a string which one tightened so extremely that the pain made him push cries: it was necessary that Mrs. de Pinieux interposed to put an end to this violent one torment the purpose of who was to force Moulin to declare which were the people accompanying the baroness by Bossac and in which places this lady had put in safety harvests of grains and wines of the ground of Thébaudaye. The noise of this violent and this imprisonment taking possession of Mrs. de Bossac, whom one said to suffer from the hunger, was spread soon in the country. The majority of the gentlemen admittedly seemed to take party for the lord of Pinieux, but the clergy remained faithful to the baroness of Bossac. Lords Allot, priest of Pipriac; Jean June, vice-chancellor of Saint-Ganton; Julien January, priest of Massérac; Laurent, Paumier and Moisson solved of going in Thébaudaye in company of two men carrying of the bread and meat provisions. “Having arrived to that the castle, they found the doors of the courses open and broken and that of the apartment where étoit the aforementioned lady of Bossac closed; which having run up, a person asked of a plaintive voice: Who goes there? With what having made answer that it étoit the priests of Pipriac and Saint-Ganton, at the moment the aforementioned door was open, and them known as the aforementioned lady that it avoit have bread only what to him in avoit brought by a window one named Bonamy, since the day of Sunday until now which étoit Wednesday, and which it avoit eaten of meat only what étoit remained of the provision of Sunday, nor another thing, if not some wafers that it avoit made of a remainder of flour. Then the aforementioned lady of Bossac accepted the vivres and provisions that the aforementioned depositors priests made him carry and thanked them, after which they were turned over from there” (Memory above mentioned). A gentleman of the vicinity, Gabriel Fabroni, lord of Plessix, in Pipriac, could also arrive to Mrs. de Bossac. But “the sior of Pinieux came to his meeting, having a gun in his sleeve and accompanied by seven or eight persons armed with rifles, which shouted to him initially that nobody entroit and that one parloit not with the lady of Bossac, because they étoient in war”. Mr. persistent Fabroni to want to enter, one led it “to the apartment of the aforesaid the lady to which it gave letters that him envoyoit his brother (François Dollier, lord of the Plessix-Glass fragment), and while being turned over some was said to him by the sior of Pinieux which so the aforementioned lady him signoit not what it vouloit in the day, it enfonceroit the door on it” (Memory above mentioned). It always acted, seems it, of the renouncement of the property of Thébaudaye by Mr. and Mrs. de Bossac. We are unaware of if Mr. de Pinieux obtained it this lady and we do not know Renee Dollier either how long remained captive. She was to it certainly at least three weeks, because Henri Héban deposited that “during the three weeks that he was in Thébaudaye, with the prayer of the aforesaid the lady of Bossac, she was so captive that they could not go to hear the mass the days of Sundays and festivals” (Memory above mentioned). Such was in 1685 the first act of the drama of Thébaudaye; the second was more tragic still in 1692.

At that time, in spite of the opposition of Gabriel Peschart, the lord of Pinieux made seize the grounds of Thébaudaye and of Bossac and the sale in the capacity as syndic of the creditors of Mr. de Bossac continued some. August 21st, 1692, it obtained from Présidial de Vannes the following stop, which revoked a sentence more favorable to the baron de Bossac returned by the same judges the previous on July 23rd: “The Seat, yes the prosecutor of the creditors, awaited the disorder made by the aforementioned of Bossac, definitively allowed these creditors, in accordance with the preceding judgments, to put the by-bodies towards him stated at execution, and makes him defense be in the extent of its grounds and approach some of more than two miles, and with all vassal, farm and lieutenants the icelles ones to deprive itself of their roads and services in other hands that in those of the contractor of the known as lease, and with all vice-chancellors, priests and priests to publish aucuns orders nor memories of known as of Bossac or people of his share; and ordered that presents it will be read and published in preach great masses of the parishes of the aforesaid grounds, and enjoint with the priests and vice-chancellors this to make” (Memory above mentioned). When this sentence was meant with the baron de Bossac it was withdrawn at the village of Rairie, in Pipriac, in its former business man Julien Thélohan, notary and prosecutor of several jurisdictions, “which to him avoit given retirement in its house by recognition or pity”. It had to seek asylum elsewhere, because Rairie was invaded by its enemies and Julien Thélohan, obliged itself to escape, remained several days “hidden in wood without being able to return at his place” (Memory above mentioned). As for Gabriel Peschart, it was withdrawn in the parish of Fougeray, in the small manor of Dévoriaye pertaining to his wife. Unfortunately for him it returned in Thébaudaye saturdays, August 30th, 1792, in company of a servant named Pierre Baudu; there joined it François Moreau, clerk of the jurisdiction of Bossac. Sunday passed quietly, but in the evening one learned to the baron de Bossac that the following day were to come from the “ushers of Rennes and the sergeants of Lohéac” to constitute it captive. Mr. Peschart ensured that one could make him no evil, nor even to stop it, because it had between the hands of the stops removing this capacity with his enemies. Nevertheless, by precaution, the unhappy lord made transport cabinet where it laid down - a little apart from the smallholding the Door Thébaudaye - a mattress to rest in the attic of this smallholding occupied by the sharecropper Jean Racapé. Monday morning, September 1st, arrived at Thébaudaye the announced ushers and sergeants. With them were two gentlemen of the parish of Pipriac and ten or twelve all other people, armed the ones with rifles, the others of swords and guns; it is to be noticed that Mr. de Pinieux did not form part of this band. They asked the sharecropper where was Mr. de Bossac; Jean Racapé, to save his Master, answered that it had gone to the mass to Saint-Ganton. But the sergeants and ushers entered the smallholding to make a searching there. Seeing, Gabriel Peschart did not seek to flee; he says to them quietly that he had on him “a sentence delivered in Présidial de Vannes the previous on July 23rd, widening it with defense with all his creditors and others to use towards him of civil imprisonment”. “Allow, says it, that I show it with these Sirs who are in the court”. Hardly the baron de Bossac it had left the smallholding, without weapons nor sword and his papers with the hand, which it was reached by the rifle shots that against him the two gentlemen directed; the unfortunate one exclaimed initially: “He! what! Sirs! ”. Then it fell saying: “Jesus! Maria! I died! ”. With what the assassins retorted: “Here is B… with bottom, let us withdraw”. At this time the Moreau clerk and the Racapé sharecropper exclaimed: “Revenge! Revenge! ” and attacked one of the gentlemen whom his/her many companions (Memory above mentioned) delivered easily. Thus perishes tragically the last Peschart, baron de Bossac. Its widow Renee Dollier and her daughter Louise Peschart in vain tried to avenge her memory and to make punish her assassins. Those fled in foreign country and their families made run the noise that they had died there on sea, victims of a shipwreck. Miss Peschart died itself in Versailles, on December 23rd, 1701, and his/her mother vainly continued the procedures undertaken against those which had so much made it suffer. September 10th, 1701, Louis of Bouëxic, lord of Pinieux, always in the capacity as “syndic of the creditors of fire Gabriel Peschart, baron de Bossac, and assignee of all his goods to balance these creditors”, made judiciellement sell “the grounds and seigniories of Bossac, Thébaudaye, Pommeraye and the stronghold of Renac, in Pipriac and Bruc”; the whole was allocated for 160.200 books to No5el Danycan, sior of the Spine, adviser secretary of the King (Files of Ille-et-Vilaine, G - Files of Morbihan, B 1067 and 1075).

Three years later, Guyonne Danycan, girl of this purchaser, married, on June 17th, 1704, Charles Huchet, lord of Bédoyère, and brought the baronnie of Bossac and the manor of Thébaudaye to him; the Huchet family of Bédoyère preserved them until the XIXème century. But at this last time Thébaudaye was nothing any more but one cluster of ruins, having been burnt in January 1790 by revolutionary peasants of the neighborhoods. It is difficult to know with the Juste today of what the seigniory of Thébaudaye consisted. This ground and his strongholds having been plain during more than four hundred years and until 1789 with the ground and the strongholds of Bossac, one cannot specify any more what in the beginning constituted each one of these feudal fields. Depending Thébaudaye like Bossac directly of the duke of Brittany, then of king de France, their owners sold in block their consents without making distinction between the two seigniories. It seems however certain that the feudal musculus rectus abdominis belonged to Bossac (See the large seigniories of High-Brittany, II, 79) and that Thébaudaye, initially simple manor, acquired importance only while becoming the residence of the barons de Bossac; it is also what was worth the title of castle to him, like chief town of a châtellenie or baronnie of seniority, though it was not, never a fortress or castle itself (abbot Guillotin de Corson).

In the list of the feudatories (contents of stronghold) of évêchés of Saint-Malo and Dol in 1480, one enters the presence of any noble of Saint-Ganton. Saint-Ganton depended formerly on the parish of Pipriac.

See too

Common of Ille-et-Vilaine

External bonds

Saint-Ganton on the site of the national geographical Institute
Saint-Ganton on the site of INSEE
Saint-Ganton on the site of preliminary Quid
Inventory of the DRAC
Localization of Saint-Ganton on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Saint-Ganton on Mapquest

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