Pinel-Hauterive

Pinel-Hauterive is a commune in the south-west of France, located in the department of Lot-et-Garonne (New-Aquitaine region).

After the merger of the municipalities of Pinel and Hauterive to form Pinel-Hauterive, Saint-Pierre-de-Caubel became part of it in 1972.

Municipality of the urban area of ​​Villeneuve-sur-Lot located on the Lot about fifteen kilometers west of Villeneuve-sur-Lot.

The town was created on the basis of the Gallo-Roman oppidum of "Garum". Hauterive retains the trace of a mound and barnyard on the edge of the Lot, undoubtedly medieval, and which probably housed a seigneurial residence.

In the peace treaty—known as the Treaty of Meaux—concluded in March 1229 between the Cardinal-legate of the Pope, the regent Blanche of Castile in the name of the young King Louis IX, and Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse, Hauterive was one of the 30 towns and castles whose count undertakes to completely destroy the fortifications and fill in the ditches. Before 1240, Raymond Bernard de Rovignan had rights to Galapian, Lusignan and Hauterive. In 1240, his widow, Studia, gave the bishop of Agen all the tithes that her husband had on Lusignan and Hauterive.
In 1461, Hauterive was one of the many possessions of Poton de Xaintrailles.

But its current configuration was entrusted in 1623 by Count Godefroy d'Agenais to the intendant Philippe Jimenoise, prior of the Augustinian convent of Sainte-Livrade-sur-Lot. His work, although little appreciated, nevertheless won a great success with the Licopodes. It should be noted that he was helped in this task by Émilie de Lacombe, Duchess of Brive-la-Gaillarde, who was part of the family of the lord of Sainte-Livrade-sur-Lot.

Philippe Jimenoise will die a few years later (date still undetermined) from the plague decimating a large part of the village. Remains bear witness to the Roman presence and the sacking of the village by the Huguenots.

The church of Pinel and the whole of the Causse Pinelois was the site of intense battles during the Hundred Years War. Indeed, during the retrocession of the Agenais territory to the English kingdom, what was not yet the commune of Pinel, was in the possession of the Augustinian convent of Sainte-Livrade-sur-Lot. The latter then built an oratory dedicated to Saint Rodrigues, and fortified the whole village, thanks to the various quarries present in the surroundings. The most important deposit of Piperazine (sedimentary limestone rock with slow stratification, therefore more resistant) is still visible today and bears the name of “quarry of Boregonde”. Of these fortifications there is unfortunately nothing left today, only the oratory remains, although it is included in the current church. The adoration niche contained the relics of the patron saint, on the east wall of the choir. This strategic position will be taken and retaken force times by the English and French troops and this at the cost of intense fighting, which has altered the military buildings despite an excellent manufacturing construction.
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