Saint-Aubin-du-Pavail is a commune

Communes of France

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 in the Ille-et-Vilaine

Ille-et-Vilaine

Ille-et-Vilaine is a department of France, located in the region of Brittany in the northwest of the country.- History :Ille-et-Vilaine is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790...

 department of Brittany in north-western France

France

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The name Saint-Aubin-du-Pavail comes from Saint Aubin

Albinus of Angers

Saint Albinus of Angers was a French abbot and bishop. Born to a noble Gallo-Roman family at Vannes, Brittany, St. Albinus was a monk and afterwards Abbot of Tintillac . His reputation spread during the twenty-five years in which he served as abbot. In 529, St...

, bishop of Angers in the 6th century. The term "Pavail" indicates the paving stone of the Gallo-Roman way which crossed the commune.

Administration

Saint-Aubin-du-Pavail belongs to the canton of Châteaugiron in the arrondissement of Rennes

Rennes

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History

The church of Saint-Aubin-du-Pavail is mentioned for the first time in the mid-11th century: Brient, seigneurs of Chateaubriant

Châteaubriant

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, gave the tithe church of Saint-Aubin to the Abbaye de Marmoutier, at the time of the foundation of the priory of Béré

Bere

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. The donation was confirmed in 1217, but the parish of Saint-Aubin-du-Pavail is in reality attested only since 1245. It depended formerly on the old bishopric of Rennes. The seigneurie of Saint-Aubin-of-Pavail was the concern of the barony of Châteaugiron. It passes by alliance at the end of 15th century to seigneurs de Boisorcan, who linked it with their châtellenie in 1583.

Places of interest

• The church of Saint-Aubin (12th-16th-17th-18th-19th centuries). The two vaults making transept were built in the north and the south of the building in respectively the 16th century and in 1607. The nave which shows the dates to be 1607 and 1620 was lengthened in 1853. Two sacristies were built in 1863 and 1864. The bell dates back to 1732. The baptismal font goes back to 1855; the cross (1526), located road of Saint-Aubin; the old presbytery (1884–1885);

• Gallo-Roman relics are found in several places: in Gacel, in Tébry, Tayée and l'Aubriais; the old manor of Saint-Aubin-du-Pavail. Successive property of the Saint-Aubin (in 1427), Pontrouault (in 1478), Thierry, seigneurs de Boisorcan (about 1513), Angennes (about 1583), Morais, seigneurs de Boisorcan (in 1682 and 1718), Martigné (in 1734) families
• the old manor of Touches-Fouquet. Property of the family of Châteaugiron (in 1427 and 1513) and of the Déélin family (in 1660)
• the old manor of Mardeaux

Demographics

Inhabitants of Saint-Aubin-du-Pavail are called Saint-Aubinais.

External links

• Cultural heritage