Monpezat
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| region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
| Department | Pyrénées-Atlantiques | |
| Arrondissement | Pau | |
| Canton | Terres des Luys et Coteaux du Vic-Bilh | |
| Community association | North Est Béarn | |
| Coordinates | 43 ° 30 ′ N , 0 ° 4 ′ W | |
| height | 168-262 m | |
| surface | 3.48 km 2 | |
| Residents | 83 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 24 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 64350 | |
| INSEE code | 64394 | |
 Monpezat Town Hall |
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Monpezat is a French municipality with 83 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine (before 2016: Aquitaine ). The municipality belongs to the Arrondissement of Pau and the canton of Terres des Luys et Coteaux du Vic-Bilh (until 2015: canton of Lembeye ).
The name in the Gascognischen language is Montpesat . The name comes from the Occitan words mont and pesat ( German fortified mountain ).
geography
Monpezat is located about 40 kilometers northeast of Pau in the Vic-Bilh region of the historic province of Béarn on the northeastern edge of the department on the border with the neighboring department of Hautes-Pyrénées .
Monpezat is surrounded by the neighboring communities:
| Lasserre | Bétracq | |
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Lascazères (Hautes-Pyrénées) |
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Monpezat lies in the catchment area of the Adour River . The Bergons , one of its tributaries, crosses the territory of the commune, as does the Larcis , a tributary of the Lées .
history
The fortified moth was mentioned in the records from the 11th century. Gaston Fébus , Viscount of Béarn, recognized the strategically important location and gave the landlord of Monpezat 40 florins to renovate the castle. The census of 1385 counted ten households in Monpezat, including a lay monastery that was later converted into a castle within the wall of the Motte. Monpezat was part of the Lembeye Bailliage . Like many other places in the Béarn, Monpezat also had a spring whose water has been said to have miraculous effects since the Middle Ages . The water from this spring, called San Yan , was said to have a multiple healing and protective effect on children and until the 1930s it was the custom to place cloths soaked with the water on the children's bodies , especially on St. John's Day.
On June 20, 1842, Monpezat and Bétracq were combined to form the municipality of Monpézat-Bétrac, and in 1874 Bétracq became independent again.
Toponyms and mentions of Monpezat were:
- La mote de Monpessat (1373, Treaties of Luntz, Notary des Béarn, sheet 65),
- Monpesat (1402, census in the Béarn),
- Mons-Pazatus (1425, copy book of the castle of Pau, no.2 ),
- Mont-Pessat (around 1540, manuscript collection from the 16th to 18th centuries),
- Monpezat (1750, 1793 and 1801, map by Cassini , Notice Communale or Bulletin des lois ),
- Monpézat-Bétrac (1863, Dictionnaire topographique Béarn-Pays basque) and
- Monpezat (1874).
Population development
During the union with Bétracq, the population peaked in the middle of the 19th century. After the split from Bétracq, around 190 residents lived in the municipality until the 1880s, then the number of inhabitants fell to around 80 by the 1950s, which is still held today.
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2009 | 2017 |
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| Residents | 79 | 94 | 84 | 96 | 94 | 81 | 87 | 90 | 83 |
Attractions
- Parish Church consecrated to Lawrence of Rome . It was built in the middle of the 12th century in the area of the medieval motte and has been able to retain its Romanesque architectural elements of the entrance portal , nave and apse to the present day. The portal is on the south side and has protruding archivolts , the sculptures of which are now badly damaged. The nave has a central nave and a side aisle, which were added in the 16th and 17th centuries. After the church, like most sacred buildings in the Béarn, suffered from the devastation of the Huguenot Wars , it was rebuilt in the 17th and 18th centuries. The bell tower was built after 1879. Inside, items from the 17th to 19th centuries are kept that are registered as national cultural assets.
- Noble seat, called House Laurens-Moulonguet. Auger de l'Abbadie, the owner of the former lay monastery, was mentioned in 1374. In the 16th and 17th centuries it was owned by the d'Arricau family, and in 1727 it passed into the hands of the Lantas family, who held it until 1840 when it was transferred to the Laurens and Moulonguet families. The current building dates from the late 18th century and early 19th century. It consists of a one-storey residential wing with two side wings, one of which was extended in the 20th century.
Economy and Infrastructure
Agriculture is traditionally the most important economic factor in the municipality. The community is known for its AOC Madiran wine , which is grown on 19 hectares. Monpezat is located in the AOC zones of the Béarn , Madiran and Pacherenc du Vic-Bilh wine-growing regions .
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traffic
Monpezat is connected to the routes départementales 142, 299 and 342.
Personalities
- Laurent Sazie, born on July 16, 1807 in Monpezat, died on November 30, 1855 in Santiago de Chile , was a French doctor who founded an obstetrics school in Chile and was elected the first dean of the medical faculty of the Universidad de Chile . He contributed significantly to the development of medical care in Chile. He died on November 30, 1855 after a typhoid epidemic that had occurred in July 1855.
- Henri de Laborde de Monpezat , born on June 11, 1934 in Talence in the Gironde department , member of the Laborde de Monpezat noble family, which has existed since Jean Laborde's marriage to Catherine d'Arricau, a noblewoman from Monpezat, on August 16, 1648, has been Prince Henrik of Denmark since 1967, consort of the Danish Queen Margrethe II. He died on February 13, 2018.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monpezat ( fr ) Gasconha.com. Retrieved September 29, 2017.
- ↑ a b c Monpezat ( fr ) visites.aquitaine.fr. Archived from the original on September 29, 2017. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 29, 2017.
- ↑ Ma commune: Monpezat ( fr ) Système d'Information sur l'Eau du Bassin Adour Garonne. Retrieved September 29, 2017.
- ^ A b c Paul Raymond: Dictionnaire topographique du département des Basses-Pyrénées ( fr ) In: Dictionnaire topographique de la France . Imprimerie nationale. S. 116, 1863. Retrieved September 29, 2017.
- ^ Fontaine San Yan ( fr ) visites.aquitaine.fr. Archived from the original on September 29, 2017. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 29, 2017.
- ↑ a b c Notice Communale Monpezat ( fr ) EHESS . Retrieved September 29, 2017.
- ^ David Rumsey Historical Map Collection France 1750 ( en ) David Rumsey Map Collection: Cartography Associates. Retrieved September 29, 2017.
- ↑ Populations légales 2006 Commune de Monpezat (64394) ( fr ) INSEE . Retrieved September 29, 2017.
- ↑ Populations légales 2014 Commune de Monpezat (64394) ( fr ) INSEE . Retrieved September 29, 2017.
- ↑ Église Saint-Laurent de Monpezat ( fr ) visites.aquitaine.fr. Archived from the original on September 29, 2017. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 29, 2017.
- ^ Eglise paroissiale Saint-Laurent ( fr ) Ministry of Culture and Communication . Retrieved September 29, 2017.
- ↑ Demeure dite maison Laurens-Moulonguet ( fr ) visites.aquitaine.fr. Archived from the original on September 29, 2017. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 29, 2017.
- ^ Demeure dite maison Laurens-Moulonguet ( fr ) Ministry of Culture and Communication . Retrieved September 29, 2017.
- ^ Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité - Rechercher un produit ( fr ) Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité . Retrieved September 29, 2017.
- ↑ Caractéristiques des établissements en 2015 Commune de Monpezat (64394) ( fr ) INSEE . Retrieved September 29, 2017.
