Mirebeau
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region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
Department | Vienne | |
Arrondissement | Poitiers | |
Canton | Migné auxances | |
Community association | Haut-Poitou | |
Coordinates | 46 ° 47 ' N , 0 ° 11' E | |
height | 89-158 m | |
surface | 13.84 km 2 | |
Residents | 2,218 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 160 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 86110 | |
INSEE code | 86160 | |
Website | http://www.mairie-mirebeau.fr/ |
Mirebeau is a French village with 2,218 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Vienne in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine ; it belongs to the Arrondissement of Poitiers and the canton of Migné-Auxances .
history
Count Fulko Nerra of Anjou conquered Mirebeau and had a castle built here. His son Geoffroy II held the defeated Duke Wilhelm VI here after his victory in the Battle of Moncontour (1033) . of Aquitaine for five years. From then until the revolution , Mirebeau was part of the Anjou .
In mid-July 1202, Eleanor of Aquitaine was besieged by the French army in Mirebeau. Only the arrival of her son, the English King Johann Ohneland , on August 1st saved her.
In the 14th century Mirebeau was raised to a barony, to which 114 fiefs belonged. In 1789 Mirebeau and Moncontour were separated from the Sénéchaussée de Saumur and assigned to the new Vienne department.
Population development
- 1962: 2.072
- 1968: 2.142
- 1975: 2.270
- 1982: 2,379
- 1990: 2,299
- 1999: 2,254
coat of arms
Description : In the embroidered coat of arms a silver pole in red and a red bar in silver .
Attractions
- Castle ruins (11th century, destroyed in 1621)
- Remains of the walls of the citadel ( Monument historique )
- Castle in the Rochefort district (built from 1475 to replace an older building that had burned down)
- Grange aux Dîmes (Zehntscheuer, 13th century)
- Aumônerie Saint-Jean (1185)
- Notre-Dame de Mirebeau church (12th and 16th centuries)
- Priory Saint-André (founded in 1051/53, Monument historique)
- Poor Clares Convention (15th century, Monument historique)
- Church ruins Saint-Pierre (12th century)
- Bournezeau Church (16th century, Monument historique)
- Parish Church of Notre-Dame in Seuilly (12th century)
- Remains of the Saint-Hilaire church (12th century) within the Mairie
Personalities
- Paul-Marie Coûteaux (* 1956), MEP and writer, lives in Mirebeau
- Maurice Aguillon, resistance fighter, born in Mirebeau
Town twinning
- Bassemyam , Burkina Faso
- Membrilla , Spain
- Regen , Germany
- Saint-Raymond , Canada
Individual evidence
- ↑ Edmond-René Labande, Pour une image véridique d'Aliénor d'Aquitaine , new edition 2005. ISBN 2-84561-224-9 , p. 116