BRIOUDE

'Brioude' (Occitan: ''Briude'') is a commune of the Auvergne ''région'' of France, more precisely of its Haute-Loire ''département''. It stands on the banks of the River Allier, a tributary of the Loire.

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History

Famous ''Brivadois'' of birth

Notes

References

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History

At Brioude, the ancient ''Brinas'', its martyrs in the 4th century, Julien and Ferréol, became its patron saints; the emperor Avitus (died 456) was buried at the shrine of Julien at ''Brivas'' (Brioude), according to Gregory of Tours.^[1]
Brioude was in turn besieged and captured by the Goths (532), the Burgundians, the Saracens (732) and the Normans. Carolingian Brioude, remained a place of some importance: William I of Aquitaine minted ''denier''s at Brioude; when Louis V of France married Adelaide of Anjou there in 980 they were crowned King and Queen of Aquitaine; the couple was mismatched in age, and Adelaide fled Louis' house in 982, to Arles. The feast of Saint Jullien, 28 August, drew such crowds to the saint's relics that in the mid-11th century the chapter was obliged to build a hostel to care for the indigent pilgrim and the sick.^[2] In 1181 the viscount of Polignac, who had sacked the town two years previously, made public apology in front of the church, and established a body of twenty-five knights to defend the relics of St Jullien. Odilo, later the reforming abbot of Cluny began his vocation at St Jullien of Brioude, where fifty-four canons, all of noble birth, held the rank of bishop: Odilo's biographer reports that he fled.For some time after 1361 the town was the headquarters of Bérenger, lord of Castelnau, who was at the head of one of the bands of military adventurers which then devastated France. The knights (or canons, as they afterwards became) of St Julian bore the title of counts of Brioude, and for a long time opposed themselves to the civic liberties of the inhabitants.
The ''Almanach de Brioude'' published annually from 1919 has included many articles of local and broader interest.

Famous ''Brivadois'' of birth

★ Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe died in Brioude in 1688.

★ Pierre Vigouroux (born on June 30, 1983), rugby player in the AS Montferrandaise and till 2004 with the French U-21 team for the U-21 World Championships in Scotland.

★ Emmanuel Mouret, director, filmwriter and actor

Notes

1. ''Historian Francorum'' 2.11.
2. C. Lauranson-Rosaz, ''L'Auvergne et ses marges de VIIIe au XI siècles'' (Le-Puy-en-Velay) 1987, p 279.

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External Links

★ Brioude