Commented presentation of the "litre seigneuriale des Turpin de Crissé", visit and presentation of "Catherine du Bellay’s child"

Name: Présentation commentée de la "litre seigneuriale des Turpin de Crissé", visite et présentation de "l'enfeu de Catherine du Bellay"
Start: 2022-09-17T10:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Église Saint-Maurice

Description and historical presentation of the "seigneurial liter of the Turpin de Crissé" as well as the birth of "Catherine du Bellay", cousin of the famous poet from Anjou.

17 et 18 septembre 2022Passé

Michel MIRAULT

On the south wall of the church, partially erased during the troubled period of the Revolution, but still visible, are the remains of the seigneurial liter of the Turpin de Crissé. The family coat of arms, now bleached, is presented in a rhombus held by a lion and an ochre-coloured griffin. It was initially «lozenged with faces and money», as can be found in the sacristy of the church.
This decor signals and honors the Turpin family and its seigneurial lineage. Their memory is thus ensured by a wall painting, now degraded, representing the coat of arms of the Turpin and depicting the history of the August family.
In a tuffeau in which traces of paint persist, framed by the Turpin’s weapons, the rimmed epitaph of Katherine is still perfectly legible in this 21st century:
«IN THIS LIEV CY QVE YOU SEE REPOVSE
DE JACQVES TVRPIN LA TRES BONNE EPOVSE
MADAME KATHERINE DU BELLAY
TO HIS SOUL GOOD HOPE AND DELAY
THAT THE SAVLVEUR WILL BE GREASY AND SORRY
REQUESTING A VOUCHER AND DONATION
WHO HOPE FOR DEATH THE TRAICTZ PASS
PRAY FOR HER AND FOR TOVS TREPASSER
SHE PLAYED THE FIRST JOVR IN MAY
QVI SVS LES AVLTRES MOYS EST PLVS GAY
MIL ET CINCQ CENS VINGT ET NEUF EN L'ANNEE
TWENTY AND NEVFYEME
QVATRE BEAVX FILZ ET VNE FILLE BELLE»

À propos du lieu

Église Saint-Maurice

Place de l'Église, 37220 Crissay-sur-Manse

Indre-et-Loire
Centre-Val de Loire

The church Saint-Maurice is located outside the walls which surrounded Crissay in the South of the city along the road leading to saint Epain. The current church was built on the ruins of a Romance church on the initiative of Denis de Montmorency, of his son Jacques 1st then of Jacques II Turpin de Crissé between 1410 in 1527\. Before this place sheltered most probably the chapel of an agricultural, Gallo-Roman villa, the owner of which would have become a convert to Christianity. Dates current construction therefore the XVth and XVIth centuries Built in style "Flamboyant Gothic", the nave consisted of a main vessel includes three spans bent by ogives, extended by a north shoulder of two spans, also bent by ogives, and extended by a chapel. The chorus(choir), less higher than the nave, is built on a squared plan and possesses a flat bedhead lighted(enlightened) by a bay(berry) in flashing remplage. In the South, the bell tower of square plan, backed up by foothills of angle, carries a stone arrow. A polygonal turret of staircase in screw allows the access to the belfry of the bell tower and to the attic of the church. It is accessible(approachable) since the inside of the church.