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The Commandery of Assier
France, Lot department, approximately 20 km north-west of Figeac, commune of Assier, hamlet of Mons.
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The Commandery of AssierFrance, Lot department, approximately 20 km north-west of Figeac, commune of Assier, hamlet of Mons.
Around 1280, Barasc, Lord of Montbrun(1), donated part of the seigneury he owned in the parish of Assier to the Order of the Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem. The majority of the properties were situated in the hamlet of Mons, 1.5 km north-west of the centre of the village of Assier.
At its height, the estate comprised a fortified house, a church, a hospital, a leper colony, and the hamlets of Valian and Mons.
In 1501, the commandery of Assier was merged with that of Bastit.
In 1524, Galiot de Genouillac(2), master of artillery to Louis XII and François I, exchanged the estate of Assier – excluding the two hamlets of Vialan and Mons – with the Knights Hospitaller in return for his seigneury of Pris and the church of Froissac.
The first commanders of Assier were:
(1)This Barasc, Lord of Montbrun, is undoubtedly Déodat (de) Barasc De Béruer. For more on this surname, see: http://www.quercy.net/qmedieval/histoire/articles/barasc/barasc.html. Some sources mention that this initial donation was made by the de Thémines or de Castelnau de Thémines family. This family, which was linked to the Cardaillac family, was often at odds with the Barasc family, and numerous marriages took place between the two families, meaning that the records on this subject can be rather unclear.
(2)Jacques “Galiot” de Genouillac was born at Assier Castle in 1465 and died at Végennes Castle in Corrèze in 1546. He was the son of Jean II “Ricard” de Gourdon de Genouillac and Catherine Del Bosc, a descendant of the d’Assier family.
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