Domaine L.

Once upon a time in the 10th century... The domain of LAGOY was inhabited in a very ancient period, dating back at least to the Gallo-Roman period. In the tenth century, it still forms a villa - "villa de Lagozes" -, with its "vicus" (small village), grouped around the chapel of Saint Paul (today Saint Bonet). This small village, qualified in the Middle Ages as a castrum, will still have twenty-four families in 1353 and will be abandoned two centuries later. Only the chapel remains (see photo), the oldest building on the estate. The chapel of the Domaine de Lagoy The chapel of the Domaine de Lagoy The chapel of the Domaine de Lagoy The chapel of the Domaine de Lagoy A family legend wants the name of Lagoy to come from the word "hare" in Greek (lagôs): the explanation would be that the hare running faster when climbing because of the length of its hind legs would gladly take refuge on mounds like the one where was precisely the old village surrounding the chapel still existing. This hypothesis is probably unscru scientists! It is more likely that the name of Lagoy derives from the Old French "la Gaude "which means" hollow and wet place" and would have become "Lagauze" in Occitan. Around The Year Mil the fief of Lagoy seems to have been divided between the Count of Provence and the lord of Eyragues, who enjoyed feudal rights there for several generations. The first known act of the subjugation of Lagoy is the one by which, on March 25, 1208, Alfonso II, Count of Provence, erected as a fief for the benefit of two brothers, Bérenger and Pons de Mataron, the village and place of Lagoy, with its inhabitants, men and women, and with the rights of justice and benefits. At the end of the thirteenth century the estate entered the family of Alba, then around 1475 in the family of Sade, and finally, in 1632 by marriage of Marguerite de Sade and Gaspard de Forbin, in the Forbin family. Then began the seigneurial constructions in Lagoy: from December 1633, in fact, Marguerite de Sade and her husband, Gaspard de Forbin, passed "price made" with Daniel and Jacques Feautrier, master masons of Saint-Rémy, for the erection of a dovecote, which still exists today "average the catch and sum of troys hundred pounds tournaments". The dovecote of the Domaine de Lagoy The dovecote of the Domaine de Lagoy The construction of the Château de Lagoy Then, on March 7, 1634, they spend again with the same masons for the construction, in addition to the dovecote, of the first castle of Lagoy, of which today only remains the ground floor, included in the current castle whose construction will begin a century later. For these constructions, the masons are allowed to take as many stones as necessary from the old village of Lagoy, uninhabited for more than a century and whose demolition begins at this time. The domain of Lagoy will remain only 45 years in the Forbin family, the children of Marguerite and Gaspard are not interested and by act of July 7, 1677, finally, François Louis de Forbin sells the land and barony of Lagoy, at the price of 93,000 pounds, to Jean de Meyran Lacetta, citizen of the city of Arles and lord of Nans , near Saint Maximin, our ancestor. This is how the domain of Lagoy entered our family, and has not left it since.