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  3. Île de France
  4. Yvelines
  5. 78490 Gambaiseuil

  6. Bornes delimiting the royal hunting estate and the seigneury of the Mormaire

Bornes delimiting the royal hunting estate and the seigneury of the Mormaire à Gambaiseuil dans les Yvelines

Yvelines

Bornes delimiting the royal hunting estate and the seigneury of the Mormaire

    Route de la Noue
    78490 Gambaiseuil
Photo de Bornes delimiting the royal hunting estate and the seigneury of the Mormaire

Timeline

Renaissance
Temps modernes
Révolution/Empire
XIXe siècle
Époque contemporaine
1600
1700
1800
1900
2000
1605-1617
Construction of Mormaire Castle
2e quart XIXe siècle
Installation of delimiting terminals
6 mars 1950
First registration for Historic Monuments
14 mars 2023
Second inscription in Historic Monuments
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui

Heritage classified

Bornes of Charles X's old hunting alley: inscription by decree of 6 March 1950; The 44 terminals that make up the network of armored terminals located in the woods of Haute Rive along the old road of Nogent-le-Roi to Montfort-l'Amaury on the communes of Grosrouvre and Gambaiseuil. The flordelized terminals are situated on the following cadastral parcels and as shown on the plan annexed to the Order: pillar 1 to 7: Parcel 6, shown in cadastre section A, at Gambaiseuil, pillar 8: parcel 10, shown in cadastre section AP, at Grosrouvre, pillar 9 to n° 21: parcel 20, shown in cadastre section A, at Gambaiseuil, pillar 22 to n° 28: parcel 48, shown in cadastre section AO, at Grosrouvre, pillar 29 to n° 44: parcel 20, shown in cadastre section AM, at Grosrouvre: inscription by order of 14 March 2023

Key figures

Louis Regnard - Counsellor and secretary of King Henry IV Buyer and builder of the Mormaire castle.
Louis Manneville - Former owner of the estate Sell the seigneury to Louis Regnard.
Denis de Vion - Lord of Grosrover under Louis XIII Owner next door to the seigneury.
Charles X - King of France (1824-1830) Associated with limited hunting driveway.

Origin and history

The pillars of the royal hunting estate and the seigneury of the Mormaire are located in Gambaiseuil, in the present Rambouillet forest. Made of sandstone of Fontainebleau, a stone typical of the francilian basin, they have a homogeneous shape but a rough work. Their particularity lies in the carved coat of arms: a flower of lilies inscribed in an oval. These terminals, nearly half of which are buried to ensure their stability, follow a precise route along an old ditch still partially visible.

The property, composed of 44 flowered pillars, was designed to mark the boundary between the royal estate and the seigneury of the Mormaire, located north of the wood of Haute Rive. This seigneury, bordering Grosrouvre, was acquired and enlarged at the beginning of the seventeenth century by Louis Regnard, former councillor and secretary of King Henry IV. Regnard built the Château de la Mormaire there between 1605 and 1617, after purchasing it from Louis Manneville. The boundaries, implanted much later, perpetuate this historical delimitation.

Two successive protections were granted to the terminals under the Historical Monuments: a first inscription in 1950 for those of Charles X's old hunting alley, and a second in 2023 for all 44 pillars spread over the communes of Gambaiseuil and Grosrouvre. Their cadastral location is precisely listed, highlighting their role in preserving the region's land and historical heritage.

Under the Old Regime, the Rambouillet forest, then called Iveline, was home to several fiefs and hamlets. Grosrouvre depended on the provost of Meré, in the chestnut of Saint-Léger. The seigneury of the Mormaire, close to that of Grosrouvre, illustrates the land dynamics of the period, marked by the gradual acquisition of land by royal councillors such as Denis de Vion, seigneur of Grosrouvre under Louis XIII.

External links

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