The Old-Wallow

the Old-Wallow is a common French, located in the department of Maine-et-Loire and the area Pays of the Loire.
The inhabitants are the Old men-Baugeois.

Geography

The village of the Old-Wallow is located at the south of Baugé, it is crossed north in the south by Couasnon, which is one of the most important river of Baugeois.

History

Saturdays March 22nd 1421 take place with Old the Wallow a battles between the army of Thomas of Lancaster, younger brother of Henri V of England and the free-Scottish army of the Dolphin Charles the future Charles VII directed John Stuart, 2nd Count de Buchan.

Involved forces

On a side the free-Scottish army made up of:

French troops under the orders of Gilbert III Motier of Fayette'

Orleans-Armagnacs under the orders of the count Jaques de Ventadour , of Guillaume II of Avaugour (Viscount of Narbonne) and of Jean Dunois (bastard of Louis Ier of Orleans)

mancelles troops and angevines under the orders of Jean de Fontaine , Jean of Bellay , Jean de Grezille and Jean de Champagne .

Scottish troops under the orders of John Stewart .

On other side the English army with for commander-in-chief Thomas of Lancaster.

The battle

Thomas of Lancaster, wanting to beat the troops of the Dolphin, had not been able to seize Angers, informed that the free-Scottish troops rested with the foot of the citadel of Baugé, it started from Beaufort-in-Valley the day before Easter after the lunch to surprise his adversaries. It ordered 4500 men and left some approximately 2000 in Beaufort under the orders of Thomas de Montacute , count of Salisbury.

It arrived on March 21st towards 16:00, on the height which dominates left bank of Couesnon, vis-a-vis the village of the Old-Wallow, the archers Scot were on the bridge giving access to the village, higher another Scottish troop estimated at 400 men was on the wooded heights which dominate the river in the North-East of the village. It ordered with its people to force the passage, they were approximately 500 which circumvented by a ford the face defended by the archers Scot, they crossed the village and engaged on the way of Wallow, while skirting a long wooded hillock. At the head the large one of the men-at-arms emerged then Scot and their right side the Armagnacs knights and the men-at-arms of the Duchess of Anjou. The English were quickly submerged and folded up themselves towards the village, but their retirement was cut by the archers Scot with the bridge on Couesnon.

The English blocked in the village underwent the attack of the Écossais and vassal of the Yolande Duchess. Around 5 p.m. the Right Bank of Couesnon was completely released, the English tried to cross the river upstream and downstream from the bridge, but this one was into raw and the horses heavily charged embourbèrent themselves in the marshy meadows of left bank. The English were easy targets for the archers Scot with horse in dominant position on Right Bank. With fallen the night a trève was concluded and one counted the number of dead in each camp

For the English: 1054 died and 500 prisoners, those which had escaped with the massacre fled towards Beaufort, bastard John of the Duc of Clarence taken again the body of his/her father to bring it back in England and to deposit it in the Cathédrale of Canterbury
the free-Scottish losses were tiny.

The legend

“At the conclusion of the battle one of the mules bâtée of the back keeps enemy made three extraordinary jumps. While falling down first once it struck print of one of its irons a large stone placed the old road of Wallow with Saumur and which was transported towards 1840 close to the current cemetery of the Old-Wallow. It left a second trace to Wood-Lanfray on the road of the Lude. A third print is very visible close to Thorée (the Sarthe) near the Loir. ”

Administration

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Demography

Places and monuments

The Saint-Symphorien church

This Romance church was set up in the neighborhoods of the 11th century, the preceding arrow of the bell-tower was out of stone. The current arrow goes back to 1856 and was undoubtedly built voluntarily twisted like other bell-towers of Baugeois. The church was damaged by the lightning in 1859 and 1882, therefore the bell-tower of Old-Wallow is twisted and that it leans, its false balance measuring 1,47 Mr. torsion interests only the lower half of the arrow, the point having remained right starting from the point of cant.

In the neighborhoods of the Old-wallow four other twisted bell-towers in Baugeois are, with Fountain-Guerin, Fougeré, Mouliherne and Pontigné; there are of them four others in the Département of Maine-et-Loire which is thus the strongest concentration of bell-towers of this type in France.

The laundrette

It is fed by a source whose flow is of one liter a second.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of Maine-et-Loire

External bonds

the Old-Wallow on the site of the national geographical Institute
the Old-Wallow on the site of INSEE
the Old-Wallow on the site of Quid
Localization of the Old-Wallow on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on the Old-Wallow on Mapquest

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