Vellaves
The Vellaves - Latin Vellavi - are a Gallic people. They remained in the Velay.
The administrative capital was during a time RO-ESSION (Ruessium) " bien-située" become Saint-Paulien today; but it is the Puy-en-Velay which constitutes the city from time immemorial around which the country vellave is articulated.
Vellaves or Vellaviens or Vélauniens (Vellavi or Vellavii or Velauni in Latin), whose name would mean “Mountain” or “Those which dominate” according to J. Lacroix (“names of Gallic origin”) and that César qualifies “fighters”, belong to the Confederation of Arvernes (“Velauni which sub imperio Arvernorum consueverant ess” written César).
They live in Velay (of Vellavii) as a Celtic Gaulle. Under Auguste, Velay is the Eastern point of Aquitaine.
Before it was transferred to the Puy-en-Velay, the capital of Vellaves was Ruessio or Revessio (meaning “located well” or “very cold” according to the sources) mentioned in the Geography of Ptolémée and on the Table of Peutinger (Revessione), called by the Romans Ruessium, Civitas Vellavorum then Civitas Vetula (Old woman Quoted), and finally Saint-Paulien at the beginning of the Life century in the honor of Paulianus (celebrated on February 14th), last bishop of the city (IVe century) before the transfer of évêché to the Puy-en-Velay (Anicium or Aniciense Podium, which took in its turn the name of Civitas Vellavorum) where the 1st bishop, sent by the bishop of Clermont, was holy Evodius or Evode or Vosy or Vouzy (of a consular family of Auvergne) which attended the council of Valence into 374.
The widow of the Dèce Roman Emperor (+ 251), Étruscille, would have been established in Ruessium.
The Viscounts of Polignac were lords of Saint-Paulien until the French revolution.
The commune was named Vélaune of pluviôse year II at germinal year III, i.e. of January 1794 in March 1795 (Roger Maurin).
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