Semur-in-Auxois

Semur-in-Auxois (to pronounce Aussois , as Auxerre) is a common French, located in the department of the Coast-with Or and the area Burgundy.

Geography

Located at the west of the Coast-with Or, in the middle of the Burgundy, emerging from a loop of the Armançon, Semur-in-Auxois is drawn up on a pink granite plate. The city is located in vastest of the four valleys forming the country of Auxois, with the crossroads of the buttresses of the Morvan, of the plains of the Châtillonais and the accesses of the Autunois. Located on the D980 secondary road between Montbard and Saulieu, Semur-in-Auxois is an exit of the highway A6.

History

Secular place of dwelling, the legend tells that Semur was built by Hercules at the time of his return of Spain.

It is in 606, in the charter of foundation of the abbey of Flavigny-on-Ozerain, that one finds the first hard copy of Semur, then named seine muro : old walls thus underlining the defensive and ancestral character site.

With the wire of the centuries, Semur develops, so much so that in 1276 it profits from a charter of stamping (chartre of habits) granted by the duke of Burgundy Robert II.

The city becomes all its extensive in the middle of the 14th century, at the time of the Guerre One hundred Year old, when the duke Philippe Bold the decides to reinforce the natural fortifications of the site by essaimées enclosures of turns and imposing a Donjon directly dividing the castle and the borough.

In parallel, the religious life is intense with two parishes and of the monastic establishments which will not cease growing during time. Place strong of Auxois, Semur is faithful to the Ducs of Burgundy, at the point to be opposed to the royal authority. A position which it pays with the full price when, in 1478, the French troops of Louis XI invest the city and continue to occupy it until our days.

In 1589, Semur knows its ultimate seat. During the wars of the League, the city will be subjected by the marshal of Tavannes. Henri IV decides dismantling of the fortifications in an ordinance of 1602. The city loses its defensive vocation to become the capital of the bailliage of Auxois, with all that comprises like prerogatives (présidial, Grenier with salt…).

Heraldic

Blasonnement of the weapons of the town of Semur: of azure to the crenelated money tower of five parts, built of sand, charged with a bandaged escutcheon of gold and azure to the edge of mouths .

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