Sauveté
The sauvetés , locally called in Occitan “Salvetat”, or “Sauveterre”, etc proceed of ecclesiastical initiatives between XIe and the 12th century. They are territories created on the initiative of the Église enjoying a guarantee of nonaggression granted by the local lord. Sauvetés occur within the framework of the Right of asylum and of the institution of the Paix of God.
Origins
The communal movement in France takes strength and develops as of the 11th century in the form of sauvetés, gathering the dwellings around a religious building. Prelates, abbots or dignitaries of a military nature of knighthood call upon “hosts” to ensure the clearing and the development of their grounds. They offer of the “Libertas” to the new arrivals, returning the incipient parishes and villages relatively gravitational. The objective is to fix the populations and to benefit economic from it.The monks multiply the crowned enclosures marked out by stone terminals called “pyramids of sauveté” and surmounted by crosses. Such initiatives support the blossoming of many villages, attracting sometimes wandering but especially country vicinity, which seek refuge against the violence of the feudal wars.
The first sauveté of Gascogne was established by Raymond of Saint-Mount in XIe century.
Examples of sauvetés
- Alan and Léguevin in Haute-Garonne
- Mimizan in the Moors
- Nogaro in the Gers
- Villefranque, in the past Saint-Martin-of-Basters, in the Yrénées-Atlantiques
- Villeneuve in Aveyron
Toponyms
- Causse of Sauveterre, in the Lozere
- the Salvetat-sur-Agout, in the Herault
- Saint-Martin-the-Sauveté, in the the Loire
- It Sauvetat-of-Dropt the, in the Lot-et-Garonne
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