Saint-Jean-Ligoure

Saint-Jean-Ligoure ( Feels Jan Ligora in Occitan) is a common French, located in the department of the High-Vienna and the area the Limousin.

Geography

Located on the Ligoure

History

On its territory is old the Forteresse of Châlucet or Chalusset.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

The principal personalities related to the commune are the following ones:
  • Arnaud Bernard and Bernard de Jaunhac who have in 1132 be the first builders of the castle of Châlusset at the request of Eustorge bishop of Limoges on the grounds of the Abbaye of Solignac. The abbot of Solignac was also of the Bernard family, connects downward junior by the Viscounts of Limoges of Charlemagne.
  • Gerald de Maulmont canon, adviser of the viscountess de Limoges, minister of Philippe the Beautiful one, particular chaplain of the Pope. He entirely rebuilt the high castle of Châlusset to make of it the largest fortress limousine in the shape of a palate richly equipped.
  • Perrot the Inhabitant of Béarn semi-brigand who seized the fortress to make reign terror in the surroundings.
  • Henry de Sully (1282 - 1336) which accepted Châlusset in prerogative, nephew of the Cardinal of Sully builder of Notre Dame de Paris.
  • Aimeric de Lur founder of the hôstel (small-castle) on the mound castrale of St Jean-Ligoure husband before 1160 of Agnes, girl of Pierre Bernard, him even wire of the first builder of Châlusset, author of the family of Lur-Saluces, owner during five centuries until in 1999 of the Castle-Yquem.
  • Henry IV, king de France who was lord of Châlusset heritage of Albret by his mother queen of Navarre and viscountess de Limoges, of Albret was the descendants of Sully.
  • the General Georges de Vanteau heir, in second half of the 19th century, the hôstel of Lur sheltered in the commun runs a stable of racehorses.
  • the doctor of medicine and pharmacy, Michel Legros, one of the inventors of the vaccine against the punctures of snake, came to spend its holidays at the beginning of the 20th century in the old house Roche (family of its mother), vis-a-vis the entry of the hôstel of Lur, called the castle of St Jean-Ligoure.

See too

  • Common of High-Vienna

External bonds

  • Saint-Jean-Ligoure on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Saint-Jean-Ligoure on the site of INSEE
  • Saint-Jean-Ligoure on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Saint-Jean-Ligoure on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Saint-Jean-Ligoure on Mapquest

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