Templars have installed them in The place named” la cavalerie “On the larzac platform at only six kilometers from saint Eulalie commandery .this place was inhabited from a long time attested by the presence of a lot of dolmens .when they arrived about 1154, there was already a village named lestrade at one kilometer in the north, close to the roman road which crossed north to south the larzac and joined in saint-thibery the domitian road always in use .
Because of a litigation with the town of millau concerning lestrade, templars have gave up this primitive site, that was called the old cavalerie to the benefit of the new place.it is the creation of a new agglomeration, gathering scattered populations and desertion from some isolated sites.the walls protected the church and the commander’s house which was a attic keep.

bibliography:
 Templars of the countries of oc and Roussillon of Simon JEAN (in french)

Topo-guide: Templar-Hospital round of Larzac (in french)

The Commandery of La Cavalerie

whith some houses.it is around the church that the templar’s castle was .this one did not exist anymore at the revolution time excepted a little house of small value.there however had been there an important attic tower. it remains despite all a vestige of templars time : a part of the saint-marie church.when you are penetrating in the current church , rebuilted between 1760 and 1768, if you observe well the wall which faces the door, it is constructed with beautiful quadrangular stones and pierced with a window in semicircular arch.it is the wall of the flat bedside of the primitive templar’s church, the only vestige of this period.
As in sainte-eulalie and la couvertoirade at the time of the one hundred years war (1337-1453)
The inhabitants of la cavalerie obtained from the great prior of saint-Gilles, Bertrand d’arpajon, from the rouergue, the authorization to strengthen their village .

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