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Origin and history

The Saint-Barthélemy church of Creon-d'Armagnac, built in the first half of the 13th century, embodies a medieval heritage anchored in the south-west of France. This place of worship, initially dependent on the parish of Saint-Pierre de Juliac (La Grange), was mentioned as an annex in the diocesan registers of Aire, revealing its secondary but active ecclesiastical status.

The violence of regional conflicts has profoundly marked its history. In 1355, the Black Prince — an emblematic figure of the Hundred Years' War — destroyed and burned the church, as evidenced by a record of the time kept in the London archives. The religious disturbances of the 16th and 17th centuries aggravate its decline: the Huguenots, then the slingers, ravaged it successively. Its reconstruction in the seventeenth century was initiated by Paule de Bezolles, Viscountess of Juliac, in 1694, marking an architectural and spiritual revival.

The parish archives reveal a dynamic ecclesiastical life despite the torments. From 1636 Créon had his appointed parish priests, whose names — Jean Ducros, Vincent Delapalme, or Antoine de Guichené — illustrate the continuity of Catholic worship in a region torn apart by religious divisions. These priests, appointed successively until the end of the seventeenth century, embody the resilience of a community attached to its church, despite the repeated destructions.

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