|  History
The
first society structured to stay durably at Barbentane
was Ligures. Numerous vestiges prove it. In the
course of time, the association of these Tribes
of the North of Italy with the Celtic invaders come
from Belgium has Given a magnificent marriage, Celto-Ligures.
The time of Pax Romana came then because it lasts
5 Centuries, of which it stays in us of numerous
vestiges (sarcophaguses, foundations in the
village, etc.).
In
this peacetime succeeds that of the invasions. It
is impossible to summarize This period, it would
mean writing a book, let us say that, in the order,
there was Alamans, the Vandals, Visigoths,
Burgundians, Ostrogoths, Francs, the Lombards, the
Arabs, the Normans and to finish the Saracens! Plunders
of some and the others brought epidemics, such as
the plague and The leprosy, and had to add to an
endemic malaria in this plain Easily flooded.
Therefore,
there is nothing of all this time which has everything
of Even lasted about five centuries.It is thus in
the IXth century which the inhabitants of places
began again to build, in Neighborhoods of their
oppidum which had to be situated on the current
place of it Tower, fortifications which make the
current charm of the village. It is from This time
when we find the first written tracks of Barbentane.
In
spite of its late appearance, this very former(ancient)
name, indicates probably one Source at feet of a
rocky bar. Already to Ligures the syllable ar Meant
water and tan a cliff, of more prefixes ' Barva
' or ' Borvo ' is very Spread in all Europe.
The
etymology of Barbentane would thus be in Move closer
to cities thermales such as Bourboule, Barbotan
Thermes, Etc.....
The
time which follows, if it is more known, is also
vague. A day we Were
subject of his(its) Majesty King de Provence, the
next day those of King of Francs!
Situated around a border allowed us not to stay
Strangers,
but of whom were we the vassals? A precise date
has to be everything Of
even held(retained) for this time: 1133. Indeed,
it is this year, that Barbentane
sees her first Lord, Guillaume de Barbentane,
of whom Direct
descendant is always Barbentanais. His(her,its)
exact name is Mister Henri Of
Puget de Cabassole du Réal de Barbentane!
Marquess of his state! It Guillaume
lived, in the time, in the magnificent House of
the Knights which was Ended
in 1178.
The
Papacy, by settling down in Avignon in the XIVth,
allowed at least to clarify The
situation. We became, for a while, Papal subjects!
It
was not without approvals that Barbentanais
saw the matter. Besides all The
advantages that they could pull of the situation,
the lowering or the exemption Pure
and simple of the expenses and
taxes, they benefited especially from one Architectural
embellishment of the village.
Heightened fortifications,
Increase
of the church dating the same time as the House
of Knights,
construction of the Tower Anglica in 1364-1365.
She(it) is always Right-hand
side! It
was then the shady time of the Revolution. If you
come to visit Village,
we shall tell you the history, sometimes bloody
but mostly Funny
between Red and the Whites, our ancestors. The shooting,
Necessarily
cut, of this time marked all the history of Barbentanais
until our days. Families did without generations
without it Generations
the characteristic torch of the clan.
We were born
Red or white and We
owed maintain this colour excessively of its brilliancy
so much By
its words that by his(her,its) acts, even
the most harmless Two
big economic poles of Barbentane were, from the
very beginning, The
agriculture and the stony careers. Its
big alluvionnaire plain allowed an intense agriculture
and of big Quality,
essentially based, in the historic times, on a culture
Autarkic
(wheat, beans, etc.).
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