Bothoa — Wikipedia

Personality is a very large parish, resulting from the primitive parish of Pligeaux, the bishopric of Cornouaille who is now only a simple village in the town of Saint-Nicolas-du-Pélem

From Duault to Corlay via Bohoa and Saint-Nicolas-du-Pélem, over 30 km, a granite mass corresponding to the western part of Quintin, dominates, reaching 290 meters, the schist hills of the eastern part of the eastern part of Châteaulin basin located in its south.

Bothoa’s name comes from Breton words bot (= “residence”) and Saint Doha, former bishop of IN ^{It is} century ^{[ first ]} .

The name of Bothua Meet in 1316, with spellbox variants thereafter Botouha (1368) or BOTOHA (1371). From the start of XV ^{It is} century, the existence of Bothoa as a parish is attested. The parish was the barony of Quintin and was divided between two lordships, those of Pellinec and Beaucours.

The village of Bothoa (or Botoha, or Bothoua or Botouha) was mentioned in 1316. Depending on the barony of Quintin, it was divided between the lords of Pellinec and Beaucours. It was even an important parish, the cure of which was coveted (“only doctors of the Sorbonne took it off in the competition” ^{[ 2 ]} ; “We were praising Bothoa’s cure (…) like a little bishopric” ^{[ 3 ]} ), having around forty priests towards the end of XVIII ^{It is} century and four truce (Canihuel, Lanrivain, Kerien and Sainte-Tréphine) ^{[ first ]} . One of his rectors, Thomas II Le Roy, who was abbot of the Landévennec abbey, was appointed by the pope as bishop of Dol in 1522 but King François I ^is Refuses to accept his appointment which he deems contrary to the Bologna Concordat ^{[ 4 ]} .

According to Dom Lobineau, the parish of Bothoa allegedly counted up to 10,000 souls around 1650. The preacher Julien Maunoir came twice, in 1649 and 1664, preach missions in Bothoa ^{[ 5 ]} . The list of rectors of Bothoa has been known since 1575 ^{[ 6 ]} .

In 1679 the attendance of the parish church had to be temporarily prohibited because of its dilapidation, due in part to the wars of the league ^{[ 7 ]} .

In 1692, when a famine raged throughout Cornwall, a poor tailor, Claude Allain, father of twelve children found a statue of the Virgin on the verge of a stream and a voice would then have asked him to find the rector de Bothoa, Grégoire Raoult, so that he had a chapel to him in Guiaudet; Struck with blindness to punish him for not having believed there, the rector of Bothoa organized a procession towards the Guiaudet mountain and covered the view; Daniel de Francheville, bishop of Périgueux, on his land of Pélinec where the statue had been found, gave the necessary land (the act of transfer date of the May 5, 1695 ^{[ 8 ]} ) and financed part of the cost of building the Notre-Dame-du-Guiaudet chapel (in Lanrivain), and gave the necessary money (one hundred ecus per year) to the maintenance of a chaplain, with obligation for that -I to say mass every day and to confess pilgrims ^{[ 9 ] , [ ten ]} .

“There was a whole group of parishes, between the chain of the conduct and the black mountains, whose main ones were Bothoa, Laniscat, Cléguérec (15,000 to 20,000 souls) who for ten years have paid neither tenths nor capitation: C ‘is against these parishes that walked [in July 1719] the Champagne regiment » ^{[ 11 ]} .

The seigneury of Pélem (where there has been a formerly fortified castle); had medium and low justice rights; In 1728 Claude de Beaucours was lord of Bothoa (he married that year with Louise Berthelot, heiress of the castle of Saint-Ilan in Langueux) ^{[ twelfth ]} ; The lordship belonged to around 1760 to the Marquis Hippolyte-Louis Loz de Beaucours ^{[ 13 ]} , son of the previous ones. The Lord of Beaucours did justice in the cemetery surrounding the church of Bothoa and under the porch of the Church of Lanrivain ^{[ 14 ]} . On the eve of the Revolution, Count Paul Alexandre du Bois-Berthelot, lord of the said in Canihuel, was also lord of Beaucours; Lieutenant of the vessel and knight of the Order of Saint-Louis, he emigrated to Jersey, joined the army of the princes and participated, as well as his son, Charles du Bois-Berthelot, in the landing of Quiberon during which he was injured, but managed to escape; He was then aide-de-camp by Georges Cadoudal; He died in 1812 ^{[ 15 ]} .

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  The ruins of the Château de Beaucours 1.

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  The ruins of the Château de Beaucours 2.

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  The ruins of the Château de Beaucours 3.

The family of Quénec’Hquivy (or Kernec’hquivilly), present at the reforms and watches between 1426 and 1562, was lord of the said-Lieu, parish of Bothoa ^{[ 16 ]} . Another family, that of the Kervastard (or Kerambastard) was lord of the dit-Lieu in 1382, but later disappeared, for lack of male heir, found successively in the families of Kergroadez, Loz and Sarsfield ^{[ 17 ]} . Several other manors existed in the parish ^{[ 18 ]} .

Jean-Baptiste Ogée describes Bothoa in 1778:

“Botoha, on a height, a short distance from a small river; 27 leagues a third northeast of Quimper, his bishopric; 23 leagues and a half from Rennes and a league and a half of Corlay, its sub -delegation. This parish came out in Saint-Brieuc. There are, including those of Canihuel, Lanrivain, Querrien [Kerien] and Sainte-Tréphine, his truce, 5 200 communiants ^{[ 19 ]} . The cure is usually and is worth 13 000 rent books. We see, in this territory, which is very extensive, covered with wood and mountainous, beautiful meadows, fertile land in grains of all species and moors. The noble house of Beaucours was remedied there in 1500 in Claude de Malestroit. Saint-Nicolas-du-Pelin is a large village where there is a formerly well-fortified castle, whose fortifications no longer remain. This lordship has average and low justice, to M. de Brehand ^{[ 20 ]} . »

In 1790, the parish of Bothoa had four priests; Beubry (rector), Alano (vicar) and two accustomed priests, Guillaume and Poëzevara. Two constitutional priests are named the September 24, 1791 : Soussters (parish priest) and Roux (vicar); Beubry and Alano, refractory, emigrated to England from which they returned in 1802; Alano was appointed rector of Bothoa in 1806, Bubry having been appointed rector of Loudéac ^{[ 2 ]} .

Road panel at the entrance to Bothoa.

In 1790, Bothoa became a commune and even chief town of Canton, integrated into the Rostrenen district ^{[ 21 ]} . In 1835, Jean Huchet du Guermeur ^{[ 22 ]} , notary, borough advisor, is the last mayor of Bothoa ^{[ 23 ]} ; He was then mayor of Saint-Nicolas-du-Pélem until 1848. But the July 14, 1836 , a prescription transfers the municipal chief town to Saint-Nicolas. Bothoa even ceased to be a parish in 1860, becoming a simple branch of the parish of Saint-Nicolas-du-Pélem.

By decree of July 20, 1911 ; The goods that belonged to the factory of the church of Bothoa and placed under receivers are allocated to the charitable office of the town of Saint-Nicolas-du-Pélem ^{[ 24 ]} .

• The famous Brigand and Gandeer Guy Éder de la Fontenelle was perhaps born in Bothoa in 1572.
• Hyacinthe of Keranrouë jars born the 25 mars 1849 in Plougrescant, deceased on 9 mars 1888 at the Botcol manor in Bothoa, commune of Saint-Nicolas-du-Pélem, was pontifical zouave; his son Hyacinthe of the jars of Keranrouë, born the February 19, 1881 at the Botcol manor, deceased on January 29, 1936 At the Botcol manor, was notably president of the auxiliary hospital in Saint-Nicolas-du-Pélem ^{[ 25 ]} .

• The old parish church Saint-Pierre de Bothoa dated XIV ^{It is} , XVI ^{It is} And XVII ^{It is} centuries. The current church, even if it has kept contributions from the ancient church, dates from 1893 for its tower, from 1897 for the transept and the choir, of 1903 for the nave; It was built according to the plans of the architect Ernest Le Guerranic ^{[ 26 ]} .
• The Bothoa school museum ^{[ 27 ]} illustrates the 1930s classrooms ^{[ 28 ]} .

• “The former Bothaa school”, Revue “Ar Men” n 145, March- April 2005