The castle of Villandraut, palace fortress symbol of the power of Goth's family, comes as a complete and homogeneous work in spite of the various modifications which it suffered and its present state of ruins. The building assured three main functions which characterise the medieval castles: defence, house and reflexion of the power of a family.
Bertrand de Got was born by 1264 in France, near Villandraut (currently in Gironde), and died on April 20th, 1314, in Roquemaure (currently in Gard). His tomb is in the collegiate church (that he had made build) in Uzeste, in Gironde. He was bishop of Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges then archbishop of Claret, before becoming pope under the name of Clement V. Under his aegis were also constructed in the South Gironde said castles "Clementins": Villandraut, Roquetaillade, Budos, Fargues, Trave.
The castle is built in the southwest of France by Bertrand de Goth from 1305, when he is elected pope under the name of Clement V. Undoubtedly born in Villandraut, he keeps his life during a particular affection for his region of origin. This sumptuous castle-palace is intended to act for it as residence during its stays in Guyenne. The building probably lasted until 1312 but parts are finished from 1307-1308 since Clement V stays there. The castle of Villandraut is on the village of the same name, in the French department of the Gironde. It is listed as an historic monument on July 12th, 1886.
The affair of the TemplarsClement V was first the pope of trial in the order of the Temple. Philippe le Bel, on November 17th, had forwarded to Clement V the admissions of high dignitaries templars. In Guyenne, the ill pope, in spite of first admissions of the Templars and royal promise to delay him all culprits, enthusiasm was missing. It was unbearable for Guillaume de Nogaret. The French Minister of Justice thought to have found parade by making pronounce by Pierre Dubois, lawyer of Coutances, a violent diatribe in public ?counters those who refused to make eat the bread of the king? to the knights of the Temple.
The pope becomes established near AvignonFlustered by the turn of events and to try to cajole the king of France, Clement V decided to become established in country more neutral than English Guyenne. He chooses Comtat
Venaissin, pontifical fief. His Sanctity arrived at it with his continuation on March 9th, 1309 and became established first in the convent of the Dominicans.
The council of Vienna Clement V, dragged feet so much, that after all is said and done the council, in the course of which the first pope of Comtat had to condemn the Templars, was still called only in 1311 and on the firm injunction of the king of France. The sovereign pontiff left his residence of Notre-Dame of Groseau, near Malaucene, on September 18th to join Vienna (France).
Such a foreseeable verdict was only proclaimed April 13th, 1312, in plenary session of the council of Vienna, and in the presence of the king of France Philippe IV le Bel, it issued the bubble " Vox in excelso " which abolished the Order of the Temple. What was not envisaged by the king of France was that all property of the templars should be allocated to the knights of Rhodes.
One month later, the Pope decreed, by the bubble ?Ad providame? the devolvement of the property of the Temple in the order of the Hospital Saint - Jean of Jerusalem, and regulated the fate of the Templars by the bubble " Considerantes dudum " fulminated on May 2nd, 1312.
But in Provence, which adjoined Avignon and Comtat Venaissin, neither Charles II nor his successor Robert d' Anjou gave templar commanderies up with a good grace in joanites. Some
of them were still in possession of the count of Provence in 1319.
The death of Clement V But at the moment, in Comtat Venaissin, Clement V was critically ill. Undoubtedly attained by a cancer of intestines, his "physicists" (doctors), to try to appease its pain made him gulp emeralds down pur?ed. Gnawed by illness, he published on March 24th the d?cr?tales of the council and left his retirement of Monteux, with the hope of joining Villandraut, the fief of his family near Langon. The pope attained the banks of the Rhone on April 5th, 1314 to go out, fourteen days later, on April 20th, 1314, in Roquemaure in the residence of the knight Ricard which had accommodated him.
The skin of Clement V was brought back to Carpentras for solemn respects. During deathwatch, an overturned candle set fire to the catafalque and charred the calf of the late pontiff.
The analysis of the testament of the pope Clement V written before its death in 1312 reveals the existence of a 600000-gold florin pile which is not found in its succession. Very much probably diverted from the treasury of the Pontifical States, this pile is indeed still built a wall around in one secret room of the castle of Villandraut built on group of tunnels.
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