{"id":85,"date":"2024-10-14T16:00:36","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T14:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.domainesgabrielrey.fr\/?page_id=85"},"modified":"2025-09-05T14:27:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T12:27:56","slug":"en-savoir-plus-sur-notre-histoire","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.domainesgabrielrey.fr\/en\/en-savoir-plus-sur-notre-histoire\/","title":{"rendered":"Find out more about our history"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Saint-Andr\u00e9-des-Rami\u00e8res is a hamlet in the commune of Gigondas, on the left bank of the Ouv\u00e8ze river. It is the heart of our agricultural business.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t

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It owes its existence to a priory of the Abbey of Montmajour (near Arles), placed under the name of Saint-Andr\u00e9 in the 7th<\/sup>\u00a0century. The settlement of nuns from Pr\u00e9bayon (whose ruins lie some 10 km away), which suffered terrible floods in 962, led to the creation of a lay community around their monastery from the early 13th<\/sup>\u00a0century onwards. Probably in the middle of the 12th<\/sup> century, the community came under the direction of the Carthusian monks. The Carthusian monastery and village were plundered and left in ruins during the Wars of Religion at the end of the 16th<\/sup> century. The beginning of the 18th<\/sup> century marked the end of the nuns' presence. From then on, Les Rami\u00e8res came under the rule of the bishops of Orange, who made it one of their residences until the French Revolution. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t

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\"The country house of the bishops of Orange was a pleasant residence in the heart of a fertile valley. Thick woods surrounded it with tall trees and a belt of young coppice. The horizon was wide. The view stretched over the next hills, where villages balanced on the slopes and vines still mingling with olive trees evoked the villages and hillsides of Umbria. A river, usually rather lazy, but on stormy days swollen with a hundred streams, ran through it and watered, when it wasn't flooding it, an estate where many farmers worked.\"<\/em><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t

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Almost nothing has changed at Saint-Andr\u00e9-des-Rami\u00e8res!<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n
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In the 10th century, the nuns of Pr\u00e9bayon transferred their community to Saint-Andr\u00e9-des-Rami\u00e8res.<\/h2>
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The origins of Pr\u00e9bayon are intertwined with legend and tradition, which trace the establishment of a monastery of Benedictine nuns on the Pr\u00e9bayon mountain back to Saint Radegonde in Merovingian times. Violent storms are said to have ruined the monastery and prompted the community to move to Saint-Andr\u00e9-des-Rami\u00e8res during the High Middle Ages. The Abbey of Montmajour is said to have ceded this ancient priory, which it owned near Gigondas, to the diocese of Vaison.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t

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\u2018The prelate Artemius led his noble visitor, Germilie, a relative of Saint Radegonde, to Prebayon, situated a league from Vaison, today in the territory of S\u00e9guret. A year later, in 611, this corner of the world, squeezed between 3 mountains that in winter intercept the sun's rays and in summer stop the breeze that would temper the stifling heat, received five young virgins who professed to live there under the rule of Saint C\u00e9saire\u2019.<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u2018This noble monastery where the Carthusian virgins<\/span>
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\nIs at the end of a large wood among shrubs<\/span>
\nWhere the Ouv\u00e8ze spreads its waters abundantly.<\/span>
\nIt is there that night and day they make their prayers<\/span>
\nAnd we call it Saint-Andr\u00e9-des-Rami\u00e8res.<\/span>
\nIt is said that they were once at Pr\u00e9bayon,<\/span>
\nA very dreadful place, washed by the waters of the Trignon.\u2019<\/span><\/h3>\n

Joseph-Marie de Suar\u00e8s (1599-1677), Bishop of Vaison<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t
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Saint-Andr\u00e9-des-Rami\u00e8res was occupied by nuns from 963.<\/p>\n

In 1145, the nuns of Pr\u00e9bayon asked to join the Carthusian Order. This was the birth of the first female branch of this order. This decision to move towards greater solitude was supported and guided by Jean d'Espagne, monk and prior of Montrieux, who gave the nuns of Pr\u00e9bayon a copy of the Chartreuse Customs. From then on, Saint-Andr\u00e9-des-Rami\u00e8res ceased to be an abbey and became the Chartreuse de Saint-Andr\u00e9-des-Rami\u00e8res, the Carthusian nuns having renounced their abbatial dignity.<\/p>\n

The influence of this first female branch was significant, since it was from this branch that the nuns who formed the communities of several Carthusian monasteries left.<\/p>\n

The nuns adopted a more cenobitic way of life (monastic life in community) than that of the Carthusian monks (no individual cell, night services recited but not sung, except on feast days, daily refectory). As Saint-Andr\u00e9-des-Rami\u00e8res did not comply strictly with the requirements of the Carthusian rule, the Chapter General excommunicated the nuns in 1292, then expelled them from the order in 1336. Although the monastery was definitively detached from the Carthusian order, the nuns retained the habit and some of the Cartusian customs.<\/p>\n

In the 16th<\/sup> century, the monastery of Saint-Andr\u00e9-des-Rami\u00e8res recognised the Prince of Orange as its sovereign and paid homage to him; the Prince of Orange contested the right to elect the abbess and made appointments himself. Several princes, following in the footsteps of Emperor Sigismund, who is said to have offered a fragment of the Holy Thorn, visited the monastery and left signs of their generosity.<\/p>\n

In 1563, the monastery was burnt down by Protestants during the Wars of Religion.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

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From 1567, the nuns developed agricultural activities at Saint-Andr\u00e9-des-Rami\u00e8res and introduced vines.<\/h2>
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The plan to abolish the monastery, supported by the French court, which wanted to use the income to create a seminary in Orange, finally came to fruition in the middle of the 18th<\/sup> century. The last bishops of Orange were granted the property in the episcopal mense and made the former monastery their country residence.<\/p>\n

The relaxation of monastic rules led Louis XV, on February 19, 1734, to decree the suppression of the monastery, confirmed by the papal bull of Clement XII, on December 10, 1735. The estate was then transformed into a country residence for the last two bishops of Orange, who embellished and transformed the convent into a ch\u00e2teau, becoming Ch\u00e2teau Saint-Andr\u00e9-des-Rami\u00e8res.<\/p>\n

The estate was sold during the French Revolution and passed into private hands. In 1929, it was acquired by the Rey and Veyrat families. Since 1999, the Rey family have been the sole owners. In 2017, the acquisition of the ch\u00e2teau by the Rey family led to the historic <\/span>reunification <\/span>o<\/span>f<\/span> the estate.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

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\"The estate was one of the largest. When, in 1791, the district of Orange divided up and sold the land, it comprised, according to the official report, 600 acres of arable land and 1,800 acres of woodland. But this list is incomplete. Some of the land had already been sold, and neither the ch\u00e2teau with its outbuildings, nor the flour mill, nor the annuities paid by various farmers in money or in kind are included. The price of 460,000 francs is a good indication of the size of the estate.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00ab Some of the great Italian poplars, which the bishop had made into a magnificent avenue to his country house, have had offspring that have taken the place of their elders, undermined by old age or laid low by the mistral. The only reminder of these bygone days is a large cedar tree whose dark branches still stretch out near the entrance to the ch\u00e2teau. \u00bb<\/span><\/h3>\n

Fran\u00e7ois-Marc Bruy\u00e8re, \u2018Notice historique sur Pr\u00e9bayon, dans le territoire de S\u00e9guret, et Saint-Andr\u00e9-des-Rami\u00e8res\u2019, 1869<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n
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Vatican archives, Congregation of Avignon 14: copy of documents concerning the Carthusian monastery of Saint-Andr\u00e9 des Rami\u00e8res or Pr\u00e9bayon, with bull of Clement IV of 1268 (copy, 17th c.)
\nBruy\u00e8re (Abb\u00e9), Notice historique sur Pr\u00e9bayon et Saint-Andr\u00e9 des Rami\u00e8res, Avignon, 1869.
\nDubois (Marc), \u2018La chartreuse de Pr\u00e9bayon et de Saint Andr\u00e9 de Rami\u00e8res\u2019, Revue Mabillon, t. XXVI, 1936.
\nGruys (Albert), Cartusiana. Un instrument heuristique, t. II: maisons. Paris, 1977.
\nDevaux (Dom A.), \u2018Pour une histoire des moniales chartreuses\u2019, \u00c9tudes et documents pour l'histoire des Chartreux, Analecta cartusiana, no. 208, 2003.
\nOlagnon (L.), \u2018Un monast\u00e8re f\u00e9minin du haut Moyen ge : Pr\u00e9bayon (S\u00e9guret)\u2019, in \u00c9tudes vauclusiennes, XLVIII, July-December 1992, p. 27-28.
\nRochet (Quentin), Les filles de Saint-Bruno au Moyen ge. Rennes, 2013. 188 p.
\nMagnani Soares-Christen (Eliana), \u2018Monast\u00e8res et aristocratie en Provence - milieu Xe - d\u00e9but XIIe si\u00e8cles\u2019, doctoral thesis defended in January 1997.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

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6 G: fonds of the bishopric of Vaison (16th-18th centuries)
\n1 J 747: order from the Bishop of Vaison to remedy the misconduct of nuns (1673)
\n4 F 3: notes by Lucien Gap on Pr\u00e9bayon and Saint-Andr\u00e9 des Rami\u00e8res, with the text of a study that has remained in manuscript, copies of documents, photographs and a plan (1892-1900)
\n5 F 173: Histoire de l'ancien monast\u00e8re de Pr\u00e9bayon et de Saint-Andr\u00e9 des Rami\u00e8res, by Coulombeau (1812), handwritten copy by Abb\u00e9 Jouve.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saint-Andr\u00e9-des-Rami\u00e8res est aujourd'hui un hameau de la commune de Gigondas, situ\u00e9 sur la rive gauche de l'Ouv\u00e8ze. 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