Seneschalsy of Saumur

In France, before the French revolution, the Sénéchaussée was an administrative, financial and legal unit.

In May 1544, by the Edict of Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer, François 1st creates " the office of Seneshal of Evening gown with Saumur, to exert Justice in all civil actions and criminal " . The act is important, because it concretizes the old subdivisions of the Anjou and delimits the legal spring of the seneschalsy of Saumur (very wide by long outgrowths towards the East and the South), for two centuries and half (until the French revolution).

Under the Old Mode, the Seneschalsy of Saumur directed by a governor, manages a territory which includes Bourgueil until Gizeux in North, extends beyond Loudun, towards South-east until Mirebeau, to the East to the town of Richelieu, in the South until Face-Loretz and Nickle silver-the Church, finally in the West to the borders of the Mauges.

The Loudunais and the Mirebalais belonged of origin to the province of Anjou. The Sénéchaussée of Loudun depended on the governor of Saumur, Mirebeau raised of the Seneschalsy of Saumur.
the triangle Loudun, Mirebeau and Moncontour, constituting Loudunais and Mirebalais, remains detached of the Poitou and will depend on the government of Saumur and the Resident of Saumur until the French revolution and the creation of the French departments.

At the time of the French revolution, the Sénéchaussée of Saumur is represented by four deputies:

Representing Clergy: Mesnard.
Representing of the Nobility: Tool bags.
Representatives of the Third-State: Cigougne and Bizard.

Principal cities of the seneschalsy of Saumur: (Saumur, Gifted, Mirebeau, Moncontour, Montreuil-Bellay, Richelieu).

November 11th 1789, the Constituent Assembly orders to the deputies old French provinces to act in concert, in order to set up a network of new departments of approximately 324 square miles, that is to say 6.561 km2 current.

At the time of the French revolution, the representatives of Saumur propose the creation of a department of Saumur including/understanding Loudunais. But the opposition of the representatives of Angers and the dissensions within the Saumur-native delegates (between those of the Nobility of the Clergy and the Third-State) will ruin this attempt. The representatives of Loudun, however of agreement with this idea, end up moving away in front of confusion at the Saumur-native representatives.

Into 1790, the seneschalsy of Saumur is divided on several departments.

the Département of Maine-et-Loire preserves the central part of the Resident of Saumur around her stronghold of Saumur which becomes sub-prefecture of the new department.
the department of the Indre-et-Loire is seen granting a fringe of the Anjou-Resident of Saumur Bourgueil until Gizeux, plus the country of Richelieu.
the department of the Vienna is seen allotting Loudunais, plus Moncontour and Mirabelais.
the department of the Two-Sevres recovers the following communes belonged to sénéchaussé of Saumur: Face-Loretz, Face-Saint-Paul, Cersay, and Saint-Pierre-with-Field, as well as the parishes raising at the same time of the steps of Anjou and the Poitou: Nickle silver-the Church, Bagneux, Brion-près-Thouet, Genneton, Louzy, Massed, Saint-Leger-with-Montbrun, Saint-Martin-with-Mâcon, Saint-Martin-with-Sanzay, Saint-Cyr-the-Moor, Tourtenay.

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