Manor of the Antrepoutre en Mayenne

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Origin and history

The castle of Landepoutre, located in Jublains in the department of Mayenne, was a seigneurial building that had fallen into ruins since the 18th century. In 1739 he was described as "in total ruin", without frame or cover, with remains of an old escape (pigeon) and a prison. An adjacent building, with curved openings, served as a barn and could correspond to the old house, replaced by a later enlarged bourgeois house in the seventeenth century.

This castle was a vassal seigneury of Mayenne, subjected to symbolic obligations such as offering a pair of white gloves for the exercise of justice (high, medium and low). The lords of the neighboring lands, such as those of the Godardière or the Sonnery of Montourtier, were to guard the prisoners and offer a hat of roses to the Trinity, reflecting local feudal customs.

A chapel dedicated to Saint John the Baptist, dated the seventeenth century, remained on the site. It housed a wooden sculpture representing a Notre-Dame de Pitié, as well as plaster elements. The chapel, with a double gable, illustrates the religious importance of the place, even after its seigneurial decline.

The family of Landepoutre, attested to in Jublains but also in other localities such as Auvers-le-Hamon or Oisseau, owned the estate from the 14th to the 17th century. Their weapons, silver to three... sand, and their presence in the area testify to their influence. In the 17th century Olivier de Landepoutre, settled in the Grand-Beauvais de Spay, perpetuated this line, whose descendants then acquired the Chesnais de Bouessay.

By alliance, the Martel family became the owner of Landepoutre. Charles de Martel, living in Poitou, justified in 1474 his nobility in front of Barentin, carrying mouths to three hammers of gold. This transfer of property marks the transition from the site to a bourgeois occupation, far from its initial feudal role.

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