Saint-Pern

Saint-Pern is a common French, located in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine and the area Brittany.

Geography

History

Saint-Pern comes, seems it, of the holy bishop of Valves Patern (6th century).

Saint-Pern is a dismemberment of the primitive parish of Plouasne. In 1050, called Quimarhoc and Rotruce, his wife, would have given to the Saint Nicolas's Day abbey of Angers, the church of Saint-Pern and a ground of a capacity of 45 hectares. This abbey founds there a priory and sets up it in parish at the 12th century.

The history of the beginnings of the priory of Saint-Pern, member of the abbey of Saint Nicolas's Day of Angers, proves well to us the existence of the church of Saint-Pern as of the year 1050, but it does not guarantee to us that Saint-Pern was already set up in parish. We have the proof of the opposite in a charter of the 12th century. Indeed, Donoald, bishop of Aleth of 1120 to 1143, regulating one day the rights of the monks of Marmoutiers in Plouasne, known as that this large parish then included/understood the territories of Bécherel, Longaulnay, Quiou and Saint-Pern, whose churches were regarded only as vaults depending on the church-mother of Plouasne, and pertaining like this one to the abbey of Marmoutiers (Old évêchés of Brittany, IV, 403). This charter seems initially in contradiction with what we said of the donation of the church of Saint-Pern, as of the middle of the 11th century, to the monks of Saint Nicolas's Day of Angers; but it should be noticed that Donoald emitted this act to answer certain complaints made about the vaults depending on Plouasne. No doubt thus that they were not here the complaints formulated by the monks of Marmoutiers against those of Saint Nicolas's Day of Angers, about their establishment in the vault of Saint-Pern located in Plouasne. Why Donoald consequently did not recognize it the rights of Saint Nicolas's Day to Saint-Pern, we let us not know anything of it; but it appears well that its successors were not long in confirming the foundation of the priory of Saint-Pern in spite of the opposition of Marmoutiers, and even this had to be the reason of the erection of Saint-Pern in parish in the current of the 12th century. In another charter gone back to 1187 he, indeed, is spoken again about the vaults of Plouasne at that time, but these vaults were not any more but two: Quiou and Longaulnay; Bécherel and Saint-Pern had then become parishes, and the latter did not depend any more Marmoutiers (Old évêchés from Brittany, IV, 303). If the priory of Saint-Pern goes up in the middle of the 11th century, it is thus only in the middle of the 12th century that the parish of this name was set up. At the beginning of the 16th century we find plain the two benefit, the cure and the priory; this union remained until the Revolution. Though the abbots of Marmoutiers and Saint Nicolas's Day of Angers originally claimed to have to introduce the prior-vice-chancellor of Saint-Pern, this right was exerted to the 18th century by the ordinary one. Pouillé ms. from Saint-Malo (1739-1767) also says to us that at that time the benefit of Saint-Pern was worth 1.800 books of revenue, that the prior-vice-chancellor raised part of the dîme, but that there were moreover four other large décimateurs as well ecclesiastical as laic; that the factory had itself a dîmereau and 95 pounds of revenue, etc (Pouillé of Rennes).

The parish of Saint-Pern depended on old évêché on Saint-Malo. One found formerly in the borough of Saint-Pern, the stocks and collar of the seigniory of the Old woman Tower. This stronghold still gave in 1680 to its owner the superiority in the church of Saint-Pern.

Following names are met: Capella Sancti Paterni (at the 12th century), ecclesia of Sancto Pern (in 1516).

As from 1856, the old manor of the Tower becomes the head office of the first sisters of the poor. The institute " Sisters of Pauvres" is rested by Jeanne Jugan (1792-1879) with Saint-Servan-on-Sea (Ille-et-Vilaine).

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Places and monuments

Castle of Ligouyer, 14th century. Vast construction surrounded by flowers and greenery, hides behind its gate with the curved pediment carrying the weapons of the family Saint Pern.
the Tower Joseph Saint: the congregation of the little sisters of the poor settled in the Holy manor of the Tower Joseph, last vestige of a fortress ruined at the 15th century.

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