Saint-Gilles-the-wood

Saint-Gilles-the-Wood (into Breton Sant-Jili-rear-It hoad ) is a common department of the Coast-with Armor, in the area Brittany, in France.

The origin of the name comes from Saint-Gilles, abbot with the Middle Ages of an abbey close to Nimes. Other sources do it monk hermit of the 6th century called upon like guard of the sailors, the farmers and the shepherds.

Geography

History

Chronology of the name

It is on April 11th 1325, in the will of Guillaume de Coëtmohan (cantor of the cathedral of Tréguier), established at the time of the foundation of the college of Tréguier with Paris, which for the first time the name of Saint-Gilles appears. Saint-Gilles is a Trève of the parish of Pommerit-the-Viscount as of 1426 (files of Loire-Atlantique, B2980).

The Saint-Gilles-the-Wood church is in the beginning a domanial Chapelle belonging to the Coëtmohan family (originating in the Merzer). One found there also formerly a hospital located near the Carry-Red. Templiers (village of Kerhars) and the Hospital ones of Midsummer's Day of Jerusalem (Kerdanet and the Midsummer's Day vault of the Temple) had formerly goods with Saint-Gilles-the-Wood.

Since 1451, Saint-Gilles-the-Viscount is a parish branch of Pommerit-the-Viscount (letters of Nicolas V, n° 1077). It is set up in parish in 1676. It becomes an independent parish on August 7th 1715. The old Saint-Gilles-the-Wood parish depended formerly on évêché on Tréguier, the subdelegation of Guingamp and the royal spring of Lannion. The cure was a laic patronage, presented, in 1780, by the duke of Lorge, lord of the place.

Saint-Gilles-of-wood elects its first municipality at the beginning of 1790 and becomes chief town of a canton of 1790 to year X. Saint-Gilles-of-Wood then changes temporarily name for that of Bellevue. The old denomination is taken again in 1815. Saint-Gilles-the-wood yields in 1833 to the commune of Trévérec the enclave of Kerionou (law of April 29th, 1833).

Following names are met: eccl. Sancti Aegidi de Pommerit Vicecomitis (in 1325), Saint-Gilles (in 1426), treff of Gile Saint (in 1464). Its name became Saint-Gilles-the-Viscount as of 1731, then Saint-Gilles-the-Bescond in 1793 and Bellevue in 1794. About year IV, Bellevue became Saint-Gilles, then on April 24th 1798, Saint-Gilles-the-Wood.

Note 1: the commune of Saint-Gilles-the-Wood is formed of the villages: the Madeleine, Carpont, Kerjan, Kerantouer, Bil, Restelven, Kerbars, Marks, Quenvet, Kernevez, Trélouarn, Porzou, Being appropriate-Harennec, Kerdanet, Kerespers, Kerbino, Kerhervé, Kerivoalan, Goas-year-Zale, Goasmap, Kerprigent, Kerhelary, Meingleuziou, etc

Old nobility

The Saint-Gilles-the-Wood territory belongs to the Duchatel family until in 1590, then passes between the hands of the family Gouyon, barons of Quintin.

With the " montre" (meeting of all the men-at-arms) of Tréguier of 1481, one enters the presence of 2 noble of Saint-Gilles-the-Wood:

Yvon Ynysan: carrier of a brigandine and appears armed with a pertuisane;
Jehan Mée: carrier of a brigandine and appears before an archer.

Saint-Gilles-the-wood, with the parish close to Pommerit-the-Viscount, constitutes the cradle of the family of Kermoysan , which had there the ground and the manor of Goasmap.

Administration

Demography

Inheritance

Monk

The church

The church Saint-Gilles (church of Romance origin (chorus), increased with 14th, 17th and 18th: bell-tower; retable of 18th), in the past domestic vault and property of the Coëtmohan family. This sanctuary, which depended formerly on the manor of Coët-Mohan, is dedicated to Gilles saint and Loup saint. The chorus and part of the Nef belongs to the Romance time. The bell-tower goes back to 1680. The nave goes back to 1757. The southern door and the first two spans are 14th. The frame goes back to 1652. The vault of the font goes back to 1755.

The vault Holy-Anne

The vault Holy-Anne (1880), demolished on February 24th, 1877 and rebuilt starting from July 26th, 1879 by the architect Bernard Auffret and the Herviou Abbot. She is bénite on July 26th, 1880. The stained glasses, work of the glassmaker Job Guével (of Bridge-Swallow-hole), go back to 1946. They represent Holy-Anne, Saint-Joachim, the Holy-Virgin with the Jesus child in his arms and Saint-Joseph, Holy-Jeanne d' Arc and happy Charles of Blois.

The old vault went back to 1680 and was destroyed in 1877.

Old vaults

Old vaults, now disappeared: the vault Saint-Jean-The Evangelist, the vault of Holy-Madeleine, the vault Saint-Enoch E Saint-Elie, all three sold during the Revolution and destroyed.

Monuments

Manors of the Guard 16th, Kerdanet 16th.
the manor of Traumeu or Villeneuve (1620) with Kernévez. The ground was in the past property of the family of Jégou. This manor belongs to 18th to All Saints' day-Etienne Felix de Courson, then, in the middle of 19th, with the family Botmiliau de Guingamp.
the Water mill of Brestic.

Leisures

The Garden of the Mixtures: it is a garden, where the local rustic plants are put up with the frequentation of potteries, instruments of kitchen in second coloured life and strange characters left books of tales.

External bonds

Page on Saint-Gilles-the-Wood on the official site of the Community of communes Lanvollon - Plouha
Saint-Gilles-the-Wood on www.infobretagne.com
Saint-Gilles-the-Wood on the site of the national geographical Institute
Saint-Gilles-the-Wood on the site of INSEE
Saint-Gilles-the-Wood on the site of Quid
Localization of Saint-Gilles-the-Wood on a chart of France and communes bordering Saint-Gilles-the-Wood
Plane on Mapquest

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