Commandery
of VAOUR
About 1140 Waldemar
de Penne and his knights granted for the safety of their
soul to the Prior Pierre Humbert the right to create
an establishment in VAOUR by
giving him a vast property. The order was established
before in "La Combe des Albi" upstream of Montricoux.
about 1160 templars
were looking for a place to establish a commandery, they
chose a sterile sandstone hillock largely dominating
the surrounding countryside. This "House",
as Templars called it , was not a strong
castle as people think usualy and its walls would not have
resisted in front of a serious attack. It was an administrative
and agricultural center. It was of trapezoidal plan and
occupied a surface of approximatively 2500 m2, that is to
say roughly 1100 m2 of buildings. Few knights resided at
Vaour ten approximatively , others were inoutbuildings.
The choice of Vaour
has not been randomly decided, the commandery was built,
exactly on the site of an antique "crowned place",
probably preceltic, dedicated to the worship of water,
as the flagstone with drains atest it.
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