Country of Marsan

See also: Marsan (homonymy)

The Pays of Marsan is a country of Gascogne, on the current territory of the Landes, constitutive of the Petites Moors. Its historical capital is Mount-with-Marsan.

Presentation

Current the country of Marsan corresponds to old the Vicomté of Marsan. It includes/understands the upstream reservoir of the Midouze, delimited in the South by the Adour and the Chalosse, in South-east by the Tursan, in the East by the Low-Armagnac, in North by the High Moor, in the West by the Aguais.

Etymology

The name of “Marsan” (for Marçan) comes from a Latin domain name Marcianus : “field of Marcius”.

Toponymy

  • Brittany-with-Marsan
  • Mount-with-Marsan
  • Villeneuve-with-Marsan

History

The Viscounts of Marsan are originating in the town of Roquefort:

  • Pierre de Lobaner, founder of the town of Mount-with-Marsan in 1133

  • Gaston Phébus, founder with Mount-of-Marsan Castle of Nolibos in 1344, of which there remains today only the Donjon Lacataye.
  • Starting from 1517, Marsan was attached to the vast domain of the family of Albret, reigning on the Navarre. Into 1560, Jeanne d' Albret is converted with Protestantism. By the ordinance of the July 19th 1561, it imposes the Calvinism in its kingdom, which will involve rough fights in the area. His/her son, Henri IV, had with Benquet a pied-à-terre, the Castle-Old man.
  • In 1589, at the time of the accession to the throne of France of Henri IV, Marsan, constitutive of sound Prerogative, enters the royal Domaine.

Culture

Spoken languages:

  • French (official language, spoken and understood by the unit by the population)

  • Gascon (vernacular language, still of use in the rural areas).

See too

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