The Vaumicel Castle
Its name has varied slightly over the centuries, it was written Valmisset in 1551, then Vaumisset from 1616 to 1808, Vomicel in 1850 and finally Vaumicel.
(Extracts and adaptations of the Historical Notes on the Bessin (1930), documents from the Bellaigue family and various other sources)
(See also the 2 albums of the old postcards of the Vaumicel 1 and 2 )
This Renaissance mansion, built in the 16th century, classified as a Historical Monument in 1927, retains a medieval layout.
The mansion and its outbuildings once formed a large rectangle, still easily recognizable.
The main body of the mansion has retained its cachet with its 2 round towers to the south and its 2 turrets in corbelment to the north.
However, we find on the south face, the traces of the defensive elements of the mansion whose 2 round towers were the knot. One of them, the one that corresponds to the east to the double door, defended the main entrance, the other to the west, the exit to the countryside.
The most interesting of the 2 towers is the southwest one, flanked by a turret of the same height with a stone roof. This contains a screw staircase that leads to the upper floor to a small platform almost on one level: it was the watchtower.
The northeast turret consists of a series of successive torus and ends at its lower end by a lamp butt. Also, in encorbellment, the northwest turret has 3 windows, similarly decorated and falnqued each with 2 elongated murds (archers).
The north facade has, in addition to its modern windows, a window on the first floor and a small window whose surroundings are decorated on the ground floor.
Built on 14th century infrastructure, this residence has been owned by the Bellaigue de Bughas family for more than a century.
Here's what a 1932 advertising document said:
"Starting from Lormel two paths lead to the most curious mansion in the region, the Château du Vaumicel:
His name was written: Vaumisset, Vaumicel and Vomicel. First closed and surrounded by ditches it is currently open to everything coming by its owner, Mrs. Viscountess de Bellaigue de Bughas We still see some of the corner towers and all those that flank the house. Very curious are the corbelments more or less hidden by the ivy that invades those of the sunset. This construction can date back to the 15th century.
Along the eastern wall, along the green path, we arrive at the Mansion of Than"
Among the Viervillais remains of past centuries, this Vaumicel castle is The most original. In the past, Arcisse de Caumont had drawn attention to this mansion. He had described it and figured it in his Monumental Statistics of Calvados. Later, Mr. Ch. The Goffic had devoted an interesting page to him in monumental and illustrated Normandy. Although the somewhat complete geographies and guides mention the Vaumicel, it is relatively little known because of its Situation away from the village of Vierville, in the middle of grasslands framed by hedges Tufty and rows of tall trees. To discover it you have to get lost in these small neighborhood paths, which are one of the charms of Bessin. And today, it is impossible to show it to tourists traveling by car.
From the heart of the village of Vierville represented by the crossroads of the roads from Port-en-Bessin to Isigny and from Trévières to the sea, we head towards the church that we bypass, and we continue on our way to the farm de l'Ormel, beyond which there is a bifurcation, whose right branch we follow: this one, about a hundred steps from its birth, receives at a right angle a cross path. This is the alley that leads to the Vaumicel, whose facade is soon followed.
The description of the mansion
The mansion and its outbuildings once formed a large rectangle still easily recognizable. The South side was occupied by the main house body flanked by two round corner towers. One defended the entrance with a large cart door and a bastard door, both of which were curved. Today the big door has lost its arcade. The other round defended the exit on the campaign
A secondary construction joined a vast building developing over almost half of the east side of the rectangle, fortified at its two ends by two round towers.
High walls where other operating buildings leaned closed the north and west sides, thus delimiting a vast inner courtyard.
Today, although the main body of the mansion has retained its cachet with its two round towers to the South and its two cantileve turrets to the North, part of the old arrangement has disappeared as a result of the necessities of the farm and the desire to free the dwelling from the wall that has become too strict.
The main building, bounded by its two towers and two turrets, is separated from the road by a small garden enclosed by a low wall.
The southern facade is pierced with openings that have lost their primitive character. The skylights were redone about twenty years ago.(around 1910)
The northern facade overlooking an inner courtyard has modern doors and windows, except for an opening that has retained its meneau, on the first floor and a small window whose entourage is decorated on the ground floor.
(details) The Vaumicel in the book of Arcisse de Caumont (around 1850)
The Vaumicel, described by the Local Urban Planning Plan
(2011)
Comments on the Local Urban Planning Plan (2011)
"Implantation of the old building: The enclosure effect - The Vaumicel Castle
From a distance, the Château du Vaumicel is an impenetrable enclosure.
The agricultural buildings in the foreground form an enclosure line that allows you to perceive the castle located in the background (oriented NO/SE with a very slight inclination).
Pety hedges frame the whole and some tree punctuations come to settle the building.
From the chemin du Vaumicel we approach the castle which can be revealed in some places. Part of the park, as well as the grasses at the foot of the walls or the ruins, thus contribute to the approval of public space."
The turrets in cantilever are very well preserved.
The North East, unfortunately beheaded before the arrival of the current owners, consists of a series of successive tores set back on top of each other and ended at its lower end by a cul-de-lampe forming a pendant and once sculpted. This turret is pierced with turrets and an oval opening whose entourage has a carved interlacing.
Also in cantilever, the Northwest turret has three similarly decorated windows and flanked, each with two elongated murts. Their ornamentation consists of a small triangular pediment at the top with two supports forming both sides of the opening. These two supports consist of two ionic pilasters for two windows and fantastic animals, (kind of snakes) for the third. As for the pediment, it is decorated with an indistinct cartouche on two windows, and a shell surmounted by a patted cross on the third. This tower is covered with a plaster bearing different designs: grids and interlacing.
The most interesting tower is that of the Southwest, flanked by a turret of the same height and with a stone roof. This contains a spiral staircase that leads, on the upper floor, to a small platform almost on one level with the lower edge of three semicircular openings: it was the watchtower. The debris of ravens that we still see indicate that primitively each opening corresponded to a mâchicoulis. The iry has sometimes completely covered this turret.
The South East tower is as seen and represented by Caumont in his Monumental Statistics. However, its conical roof is currently lower.
The interior of the Manor has been completely redesigned and no longer offers anything remarkable except an old fireplace plate bearing a badge: two chevrons accompanied by three third leaves, 2 in chief and 1 in tip. This shield is stamped with a profile helmet with its lambrequins and a dove as a crest. At the bottom a banner carried a motto now erased.
The operating buildings present on the southern facade, along the road, the remains of a now clogged trilobed window. The eastern wall is lined with buttresses and carries at its north corner a small two-story turret with a pepper roof. In the neighboring wall there used to be a stone gatehouse (as at the manor of Amours in Maisy) destroyed from the time of Lepesse, as well as another turret similar to the previous one and located at the southeast corner, according to the register of Vierville.
Mr. de Caumont says that walls and ditches surrounded the Vaumicel.
Successive owners of the Vaumicel
The first mention made of the mansion in the municipal archives of Vierville is in a marriage certificate of 1675.
The first known owner (and probably the builder of the main dwelling) is Guillaume Canivet, Sr. du Vaumisset in 1551, ennobled in March 1543 by letters given to Evreux, verified on Sept. 4, 1544 and registered in May 1546. His weapons were: de gueules with 3 silver-plated knives in gold. He married in 1553 Françoise de Bailleul, daughter of Pierre, sr. de Vierville and Engranvillle.
From Guillaume Canivet's marriage to Françoise-Catherine de Bailleul, 7 sons were born, only 3 of whom seem to have lived and inherited their parents' estates:
1° Michel Canivet who inherited St-Sever.
2° Marin Canivet who married Françoise de Méhérenc in 1580 and was the father of Gilles Canivet married to Marie Maillard (lady of Léaupartie) and the grandfather of Gilles II Canivet, squire sr. de la Rougefosse, sergeant of the Veys, husband of Suzanne du Mesnildot, and René Canivet, squire, sr. de Leaupartie, sergeant of the
The Rougefosse branch was represented in 1789 by Pierre-Charles Canivet de la Rougefosse who took part in the assembly of the nobility of Bayeux, in St-Etienne de Caen. (La Rougefosse is an estate located in Englesqueville and of which 16th century buildings with a staircase tower remain today).
3° and finally Jean 1st Canivet (or Canyvet) was sr. of the Vaumissel and the Moley (one of the fiefs of the seigneury of Molay which belonged to the Bacon, then to the Le Coulteux du Molay.). He married in 1574 Madelaine de Hottot (whose family owned the Château de Beaumont) and was recognized as noble by Roissy in 1599. He still lived in 1616 according to the admission of a land "seated in Asnières adjacent to Jean Le Blois sr. de la Chapelle and Jean de Canivet sr. du Vaumisset" made to Jean Thomas, squire, sr. de Benesville.
He wrote a memorial "of the things he saw or heard in the area".
Jehan Canivet, begins this handwritten chronicle with these words:
" Journal of the inheritances, annuities and income of Louis and Jehan Canyvet, lords of the Vaumisset... "
He mentions the events and deaths he learns in this mansion, from 1562 to 1606... A supporter of Henry IV, even before his abjuration, he was a victim of the troubles of the wars of Religion in these terms:
" I was volleyball and brusley of the (by the) people of Vicques on Wednesday, the penultimate day of August 1589, and meney remained at Mont Saint-Michel and remained there until his capture on December 5, 1589 by Mr. de Lorge, son of Mr. de Montgommery. "
We know that Vicques, called himself " lieutenant-general of the Holy Union in Lower Normandy " was Louis de Lamoricière, sieur de Vicques, de l'Isle-Manière. The following year, he was attacked near Avranches by the royals headed by Carbonel de Canisy and Jean de Hotot, Sieur de Beaumont, often called the "captain of Beaumont" in contemporary writings, and brother-in-law of Jehan du Vaumisset. The battle took place on August 8, near Saint-Jean-de-la-Laize. But, abandoned by former leaguers whom they had enlisted in spite of themselves, Jean de Hotot and Carbonnel de Canisy had to retreat, leaving two hundred dead and one hundred injured. On August 30, 1590, Jean de Hotot was in charge of guarding the coasts of the sea from Isigny to Bernières-sur-Mer, which restored security in and around Vaumisset.
In his diary, Jehan Canivet notes that his daughter, Catherine, born in 1575, was baptized by the parish priest of the 2nd section of Englesqueville and had Marie du Bosq as godmother, assisted by Jean de Baudre. He also notes that her daughter, Madeleine de Hotot, his dear wife, died and was buried on March 6, 1585 in the church of Vierville.
In this "Diary of Jehan Canivet", visible in the archives of Calvados, we also read for example that on February 16, 1503, François de Bricqueville-Colombières and the Sieur de Pierrepont came to besiege Bayeux with four cannons; we speak of Jehan d'Escageul, lord of the Bretonnière (at the Folie), husband of Jacqueline d'Harcourt, deputy of the nobility of Bessin in the States of Blois in 1588, governor of Bayeux in 1589, etc.
Jean Canivet was able to repair the Vaumissel "brûley by the leaguers" and leave a beautiful legacy to his son Gilles 1er, born in 1578, three years after his sister, Catherine, and five years before the death of their mother, Catherine de Hotot.
Gilles 1er says the eldest, sr. of Molley and Vaumisset. Kept noble in 1599, Gilles derogated and was raised by letters given to St-Germain on October 14, 1625 and registered on December 9. He married in 1621 Marie de Faoucq-Jucoville, daughter of Jacques 1st of the first name and Olive de la Luzerne. They had a daughter and five sons including Jean II Canivet (1625-1679) and Jacques, sr. des Londes, both maintained (nobles) by Chamillart in 1666.
The wife of Jacques Canivet, Anne Léonard, of the family of the sieurs de Beaupré, des Isles, de Rampan and de Juvigny, was buried in Louvières, on June 27, 1680.
John II Canivet was lord of Vaumisset after his father's death. In April 1660, he agreed to sell his Vaumisset wood to Gilles du Mesnil, lord of Saint-Paul " eleven hundred and ten pounds to make a house in the parish of Cricqueville, in a piece of land called the Closets ". (Excerpt from a manuscript written by Jacques du Mesnil Saint-Hilaire and preserved in Couterne)
Jean Il, recognized noble by Chamillard in 1666 at the same time as his brother Jacques, lord of the Londons, died in 1679 and was also buried in Louvières, on November 12 " in the Saint-Loup chapel, located on the southern side of the church of Louvières where he had founded the brotherhood of the Rosary " says his act of burial.
He had married Robine Philippe who had the Canivet coat of arms registered in 1698 at the General Armorial of France. They left as a son, Guillaume or Guyon Canivet, (born in 1655), squire, sr. du Molley et du Vaumissel who married in 1685 his distant cousin Marie-Thérèse Canivet-Maillard, lady and patron of Vierville, suzerain of the noble fief of Louvières-Fontenay and of the patronage of the first and large portion of the benefit-cure of Louvières, widow in first marriage of Gilles de Marguerye.
She was the daughter of René, lord of Vierville and Leaupartie, and Charlotte Simon, great-granddaughter of Marin Canivet and great-great-granddaughter of Guillaume Canivet, their common ancestor.
[This René Canivet, son of Gilles 1er and Marie Maillard took his mother's name probably to distinguish himself from the other Canivet then very numerous in the region. He is alternately called Canivet and Maillard in the acts: which creates some confusion. He does not seem to have left male posterity because his lands of Vierville passed to those of Marguerye by the alliance that we indicated above.]Marie-Thérèse Canivet-Maillard, widow of Gilles de Marguerie, left to her son, Gilles-Armand de Marguerye, the castle of Vierville and shared the property of the Canivet between the two sons of the second marriage, but the Vaumisset remained apparently undivid between the 2 brothers:
1°. Isaac-François,squire lord of Mauminot and Mollay who paid homage to the king on May 11, 1724 and sold Mauminot for 2000 Iivres to Gilles-Armand de Marguerye;
2°. Jean-Louis, squire, sr. de Vacqueville. He was a Coast Guard Captain and Knight of Saint-Louis; he gave 140 pounds of annuities to the poor sick of the Hôtel-Dieu de Bayeux in 1728 on his personal property.
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In 1705 the two brothers attended the wedding of their uterine brother Gilles-Armand de Marguerye, knight, sgr. de Vierville, Houteville and Mauminot with Jeanne Hélyes de Clinchamps, daughter of Edouard, sgr de Clinchamps and Marie Lourdel. (The Hélyes blazoned azure with a silver chevron accompanied at the head by a crescent and at the tip by a rose also of silver).
By contract of Thursday, August 7, 1755 before Michel Duhamel, royal and hereditary notary in Bayeux, the two Canivet brothers sold the Vaumisset and Vacqueville to Mr. Jean-Nicolas de Pleurre, honorary councilor in the Great Chamber of the Parliament of Paris, parishioner of St-Sauveur in Paris.
The Vaumicel was then leased to Pierre Chipel and his mother; it included maintaining, courtyard, garden, mansion and farmer's house, the Fouquet and Costil gardens, the Maladrerie, the great Torterois. "In addition, the said sellers cede in all property the chapel that belongs to them in the church of Vierville to enjoy it after their death, provided, however, that the foundation made by their predecessors in this regard is executed in surplus according to the intention of the founders".
Those of Pleurre wore "d'azure or silver chevron accompanied by three golden griffins 2 and 1, those of the leader faced". Jean-Nicolas de Pleurre lord of Romilly, de la Ferté, etc., had married Marie-Thérèse Gaillard who made him father of Marie-Thérèse de Pleurre, married in 1741 to Gilles-Edouard de Marguerye, sgr. and boss of Vierville, born in 1709 in Bayeux, of Gilles-Armand aforementioned and Jeanne Hélyes de Clinchamps. Gilles-Edouard belonged to an old Norman family that wears of azure to 3 silver meadow daisies tigged and leafy in the same way and of which La Chesnaie des Bois gave the genealogy. He died on the 9th thermidor year XI (1802) in Bayeux and was buried near his son Jean-Edouard in Vierville by Bishop Charles Brault, Bishop of Bayeux.
Gilles-Edouard de Marguerye (1709-1802) was therefore both lord of Vierville and Vaumisset. Among other children he had
1° Jean-Edouard de Marguerye married to Louise Françoise de Viel de Limas and died on August 3, 1783 as his epitaph tells us, at the Vierville cemetery.
"Cy in front at the foot of the Cross Rest the body of Jean Edouard de Marguerie Chevalier, son of Gilles Edouard de Marguerie, knight, lord and patron of this parish, died on August III MDCCLXXXIII Aged XXXXII years Pray for him
The tenderness of noble lady Louise-Françoise-Thérèse de Viel de Lunas his wife posed this monument"
2° Françoise de Marguerye, heiress of the Ormel, married to Joseph-Jacques-Henri Morin de Litteau, sgr. de VaulaviIle and de Litteau, died at the castle of Vaulaville on June 27, 1835 at the age of 86 and buried in Tour where we see his tomb bearing his coat of arms: of gold with 3 fascias of sinople.
3° Edouard-Marie of Marguerye, lieutenant in the King-Infanty regiment, married Anna Bella Henriette Drummond de Melfort, wearing Golden with 3 wavy fascias of mouths, and also sometimes quartered at the 1st and 4th of Drummond, in the 2nd and 3rd of Scotland. This family was originally from Scotland.
Edouard Marie de Marguerye was one of the victims of the Revolutionary Tribunal established in Paris by decree of the National Convention on March 10, 1793, without any possible recourse to the Court of Cassation under another decree of the said Convention containing "that the public accuser of the said Tribunal is authorized to have arrested, prosecuted and judged on the denunciation of constituted authorities or citizens ".
The minutes of this Court bear thatit appears by judgment of 12 prairial year Il
"Edouard-Marie Marguerie, 38 years old, former noble, major second in the 42nd infantry regiment, former colonel of the tyrant's constitutional guard, born in Bayeux, department of Calvados, residing in Agy, near Bayeux... (follow five other names), have been sentenced to death; and ordered that the execution of said judgment would take place in the public square of the Revolution of this city... By report drawn up by Auvray, bailiff of the revolutionary court, it appears to have been found that the above judgment was executed in the public square of the Revolution of this city where the above-named were put to death. For compliant extract, signed "Lécrivain, chief clerk".
The unfortunate Edouard Marie de Marguerye left two children:
1° Edouard-Marie-Alfred de Marguerye, became sr. du Vaumisset in 1805 after the division of the property of Gilles-Edouard de Marguerie (in front of Me Vautier, notary in Bayeux, September 18, 1805 and July 21, 1810) died in 1802. Alfred-Marie died without posterity in 1809;
2° Anne-Marie-Caroline de Marguerye, married in Bayeux, on May 31, 1802, to Eugène-Gabriel-Léon Texier, Count of Hautefeuille, son of Charles, Marquis of Hautefeuille, colonel of the royal guard and knight of Saint Louis.
While the Countess of Hautefeuille followed her taste for poetry, sometimes inspired by Vierville and his cemetery (writing in prose and verse, the Countess of Hautefeuille left: "Divorce", "Woe and sensitivity", "Souffeings", "Léa Cornelia", "L'âme exilée", "Le Lys d'Israël", "Fleurs de tristesse"... The 5th edition of his works was published in Caen in 1851, volume in-8°), his husband defended France. (see documents concerning the Countess of Hautefeuille, orphan of an officer father in the service of the King and guillotine, poet, writer, activist against the death penalty and for divorce, etc..)
Officer in Napoleon's armies, the Count of Hautefeuille was at the head of the 25th dragons during the French campaign in 1813. Colonel of the 7th dragons in Spain (1823) he commanded the 1st subdivision of the 14th military division in Caen. He was promoted to field marshal and officer of the Legion of Honor, worthily restoring his ancient coat of arms "de gueules to a greyhound passing silver collared from the field, nailed and curly with gold accompanied by a crescent also of gold".
On the death of Edouard-Marie-Alfred de Marguerye, the Vaumicel was sold on July 4, 1809, to Mr. Bertauld, for a life annuity to serve his mother and sister Miss de Marguerye, a former nun. But the annuity having not been paid, the Vaumicel returned to Anne-Marie-Caroline, comtesse de Hautefeuille by judgments of the civil court of Bayeux (April 1 and June 24, 1818) and the Court of Appeal of Caen (1819) (Papers of Mrs. de Bughas.).
She did not keep it and resold it on April 8, 1820, to Antoine-Pierre Dragon de Gomiecourt who died on August 1, 1856 at the castle of Agy also acquired from Mrs. de Hautefeuille. Antoine de Gomiecourt had, from Valentine de Querecque married on 24 harvest year XIII (1804) in Oisemont (Oise), five children:
1° Marie-Charlotte-Armandine, who died before her father and left two children from her marriage to Charles Dosseur: Marie-Henriette-Léonie who married Charles-Raymond Le Bègue de Germiny, and Marie-Fernand Dosseur;
2° Edmond Théophile, Customs Inspector;
3° Marie-Pauline-Euphémie who married Louis-Alban Dosseur;
4° Palémon-Louis who inherited the Vaumicel;
5° Leontine-Sinodie.
Palémon-Louis Dragon de Gomiecourt married Mélanie-Jeanne Véron who died in Bayeux on November 18, 1875.
Having become the owner of the Vaumicel, he sold it in November 1859, to Me Nicolay, notary in Bayeux in Henri-Charles Sorin de Lépesse, already heir to Vierville and linked by his wife to the former Lords of Vaumicel.
He had, in fact, married in June 1849 Aglaë-Siméonide-Justine Wastelier d'Hailliecourt, daughter of Jean-Baptiste-Justin and Louise-Nathalie (or Léonie??) Couliboeuf de Blocqueville (The Couliboeuf blassed d'azur with the head of golden beef.). She was the daughter of Aglaë-Marie-Thérèse Morin de Litteau, herself the daughter of Françoise de Marguerye mentioned above.
Henri-Charles Sorin de Lépesse was the son ofAdrien-Bon-Charles-Casimir Sorin de Lépesse, infantry captain, knight of the Legion of Honor, and Jenny de Marguerye, heiress of Vierville.
Adrien-Bon de Lépesse was born on April 2, 1788 and joined so young in the armies of Napoleon I that he was second lieutenant at the age of 18, lieutenant on November 1, 1808, captain on the following February 1, 2 months before the age of 21. He made the campaigns of Prussia, Sweden, Germany, the shores of the Ocean (1807 to 1811), Russia (18I2-1813). Injured in the left shoulder he continued to encourage his voltigeurs with his example. He distinguished himself especially in the Berezina and received the cross of the Legion of Honor on July 24, 1813. Resigned in 1815, he was reintegrated into his rank in the 1st Channel Legion in December 1815, then in the 25th Line in 1821.
Back in private life he lived in Vierville. "Faithful to the oath he had taken in 1814, to the monarchy and to the dynasty for which his father had poured his blood, he refused in 1830 to take a new oath as a member of the municipal council of Vierville; in 1848 after the abolition of the oath, he was again brought to the municipal council from which he withdrew again by refusal to swear in 1853, after the proclamation of the Empire. " We borrow these lines from the notice published by the Norman Association in 1858, a notice saying that Adrien de Lépesse "was kidnapped on April 28, 1857 almost suddenly to the affection of a family whose charm and happiness he made, to the many friends he had attracted by the loyalty, sweetness and amenity of his character..., in the feelings of the deep and sincere piety that he practiced without concealment as without ostentation. "
Adrien-Bon de Lépesse was the son of Pierre-François-Casimir Sorin, Sieur de Lépesse (formerly l'Espaisse, name of a stronghold of Ste Opportune near Lessay).
Married and father, Pierre-François was 45 years old when he was the victim of one of the cruelest injustices of the Terror. Indeed he simply had against him to be "proud and ex-noble", because on many occasions he had given evidence of the most rational civic spirit.
The bad luck meant that his brother, Abbé Sorin de Lépesse, a refractory priest, who emigrated to Jersey, returned on the night of June 9 to 10, 1794 to preside over the night procession of Gonfreville. This demonstration exalted the fury of Commissioner Le Carpentier, who immediately arrested ten members of the Coutances supervisory committee. Imprisoned in Périers, and fortunately forgotten in their prisons, they were later released, thanks to the benevolent judgment of Le Menuet de la Jugannière, then public accuser at the Manche Criminal Court.
But three days after their arrest, Le Carpentier sent to the revolutionary court of Paris the 24 people who composed " the batch of Coutances ", (just before the end of the Terror).
Among them were Sorin de l'Espaisse, Marie-Léonor de Cussy (Marie-Léonor de Cussy-Mandeville, grand vicar and mayor of Coutances) and his nephew Louis-Léonor, Hue de Caligny and François-Léonor de Mons, great vicar of the exiled bishop of Coutances, perfectly innocent of any compromise in this case and who could not be saved by the protests raised in his favor by the republican authorities themselves. They were tried en masse. Fouquier-Tinville aggravated to pleasure the more or less vague charges, raised against these unfortunates, personally accusing of emigration those whose only relatives had emigrated, of intelligence with the enemy those who did not have the slightest relationship with the foreigner, of provocation to civil war... and making them a crime for having felt sorry for the fate of the tyrant Capet. Of the 24 defendants, only 5 were acquitted. All the others were sentenced to death on 3 thermidor (July 21, 1794), executed the same day at the Vincennes barrier and buried in the Picpus cemetery.}
The grandson of the unfortunate Pierre Sorin de Lépesse, Henri-Charles, buyer of the Vaumicel, was mayor of Vierville; he died in Vaumicel on July 14, 1876, having had 3 sons:
1° Guy-Charles-Léon-Marie, died in Bayeux at the age of 14, on April 23, 1864,
2° Gaétan
3° Christian-Marie, all without posterity. The latter died shortly after his marriage to Edmée de Franclieu who married in second marriage Mr. Renaudeau d'Arc, descending by his great-grandmother of James of Arc ennobled him and all his posterity in December 1429 with confirmation in 1550, 1612, 1825 (by Charles X) and 1861 (by imperial decree of Napoleon III)
The widow of Henri-Charles Sorin de Lépesse sold on the one hand Vierville to the Marguerit de Rochefort-Goussancourt (from the mansion of Than) and on the other hand sold the Vaumicel, before M° Salles, notary in Trévières on April 21, 1879, to Eugène Solange who died in 1893.
His son, Eugène-Georges Solange, who became the owner of the Vaumicel sold it on October 16, 1903 to the Viscount Marie-Victor-Eugène-François de Bellaigue de Bughas, born in Paris on July 25, 1882,
He was the son of Symphorien, Count of Bellaigue de Bughas, Knight of the Legion of Honor and Louise du Bois de Beauchesne, grandson of Pierre-Gabriel-Augustin and Mélanie Bérard de Chazelles. The Bellaigue wear: gold has azure chief loaded with 3 silver stars to the river also azure placed in point. Motto: Deoque Regique fides.
Viscount François de Bellaigue de Bughas had from his marriage with Léontine Magdelaine Neustadt four children all born in Vaumicel:
Jacqueline, April 2, 1908;
Guillaume, June 16, 1909;
Raymonde, April 1, 1911
And François de Bellaigue de Bughas, April 27, 1915. He was mayor of Vierville after the 39-45 war.
When the war was declared in 1914, Marie-Victor-François de Bellaigue was 42 years old. City councilor in 1912, and deputy mayor of Vierville, he left the agricultural estate he had been operating since 1904 to mobilize and left the charge of it to his wife.
In the armies he behaved with a distinction that soon earned him the rank of lieutenant; and, on October 13, 1915, in Tahure, he found this glorious death that military documents report:
" On October 11, at the head of his company, he had brilliantly removed an enemy position, making a large number of prisoners. On the night of the 12th to the 13th, during a replacement, he was hit by a shrapnel and fell without having suffered. " The name of Mr. de Bughas will remain forever attached to this beautiful feat of arms which will be one of the most beautiful pages in the history of the 228th Infantry Regiment. "The lieutenant of Bughas leaves the most sincere and vivid regrets among his leaders, his comrades and his men, because all admired in him the high and very French qualities of his beautiful character.,"
The Cross of the Legion of Honor and the War Cross were awarded to him with this quote:
" Officer of a rare distinction of mind and heart, going straight to the enemy in an exquisite way; "by his bravery, led his company decimated by backfires and flank of machine guns placed at a very short distance, to. the assault of a blockhouse; took it, wounding a German captain, killing a second lieutenant and causing the surrender of an enemy company that occupied the work. "
The transfer of the body of Lieutenant François de Bellaigue de Bughas and his burial in the cemetery of Vierville-sur-Mer took place on January 6, 1921. It was an opportunity for the population to recognize its value and sacrifice to the Fatherland and to pay to its memory the most just tribute, the high expression of which was found in the speeches made by Abbé Robert, parish priest of Vierville and Mr. Théophile Anger, mayor. May we be allowed to reproduce these lines from the Friends Pages of Trévières publishing the speech of Mr. the priest... The lieutenant of Bughas, from the bottom of his grave " invites you to raise your minds and hearts above the ephemeral goods and enjoyments of the present life, to remind you that the happiness of individuals like the prosperity of nations, lies less in the pursuit of gold and silver than in the transcendent beauty of duty supported by a high ideal, illuminated by the torch of the Christian faith and supported, if necessary, to the supreme sacrifice... "
It was the last son, François de Bellaigue, born in 1915, who ensured the succession on the farm in 1943. He had been married since 1940 to Denise Perrée and was mayor of Vierville.
At the death of François de Bellaigue in 1979, the family property remained in the indivision between Madame de Bellaigue and her 6 children. In 1992, a family solution made it possible to retain ownership in the family.
It is Antoine de Bellaigue who owns the castle itself.
The adjacent buildings and land are owned by Jack de Bellaigue.