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Logis seigneurial de la Juquaise à Saint-Laurent-des-Mortiers en Mayenne

Patrimoine classé
Demeure seigneuriale
Logis seigneurial
Mayenne

Logis seigneurial de la Juquaise à Saint-Laurent-des-Mortiers

    La Juguaise
    53290 Saint-Laurent-des-Mortiers

Timeline

Antiquité
Haut Moyen Âge
Moyen Âge central
Bas Moyen Âge
Renaissance
Temps modernes
Révolution/Empire
XIXe siècle
Époque contemporaine
0
100
1700
1800
1900
2000
8 nivôse an III (1794)
Sale as a national good
vers 1770
Construction of the house
1787
Mention in confession
18 mai 1993
Registration for Historic Monuments
fin XIXe siècle
Transfer from the chapel
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui

Heritage classified

Logis, chapel (cad. A 21) , plate ground of the old house (cad. A 24) and moat (cad. A 25) , as well as the facades and roofs of the eighteenth century communes (cad. A 20, 21): inscription by decree of 18 May 1993

Key figures

Charles Dugué-Delarivière - Architect Designs the house around 1770.
Jean-François-René Gaultier de Brûlon - Last Lord Owner before the national sale.
Geoffroy Gaultier de Brûlon - Lord of the seventeenth century Member of the local noble family.
Fouques de Changé - Medieval Lord Owner in 1362-1363.

Origin and history

The seigneurial house of the Juquaise, located at Saint-Laurent-des-Mortiers in the Mayenne, was built around 1770 to replace the former château de Brûlon. This new building, designed by the architect Charles Dugué-Delarivière de Château-Gontier, consists of several rooms on the ground floor and apartments on the first floor, surrounded by lawns and outbuildings (buanderies, stables, sheds). The estate, mentioned in 1363 as the Jucaise, belonged to the seigneuries of Goubil and Saint-Laurent-des-Mortiers. In 1787 it was described as a "house of the Jucaize" with gardens and moats, remains of the old castle.

The chapel of the estate, originally located in Brûlon, was moved stone by stone to the Juquaise at the end of the 19th century. It houses funerary monuments of the second half of the 17th century, linked to the Gaultier de Brûlon family, seigneurs des lieux since the 17th century. This noble family, originally from Château-Gontier, owned the fief and sometimes took the title. The archives mention baptisms of their descendants at Saint-Laurent-des-Mortiers between 1619 and 1653.

The estate was sold as a national property on the 8th Nivôse an III (1794) for 19,100 pounds, following the French Revolution. The Gaultiers of Brûlon, the last lords, lived there until that date. The house, chapel, moat and commons of the eighteenth century have been listed in the Historical Monuments since 1993. The department archives of Mayenne and the sources of the Dictionnaire historique de la Mayenne (Angot & Gaugain, 1900-1910) document its history.

The site preserves traces of its seigneurial past, with architectural elements of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The moat and remains of the former castle of Brûlon recall its evolution, while the transported chapel illustrates the transformations of the estate over the centuries. Today, the house and its outbuildings bear witness to local history and noble rural architecture in the Pays de la Loire.

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