Aubertin

 ( Communes Of Pyrénées-atlantiques ) 

The following table details the origins of the commune name and other names in the commune.

Sources:

• Raymond: Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, 1863, on the page numbers indicated in the table. Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, Paul Raymond, Imprimerie nationale, 1863, Digitised from Lyon Public Library 15 June 2011

Origins:

• Marca: Pierre de Marca, History of Béarn.Pierre de Marca, History of Béarn
• Fors de BéarnManuscript from the 14th century - Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques
• Census: Census of Béarn
• Reformation: Reformation of BéarnManuscript from the 16th to 18th centuries - Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques
• Insinuations: Insinuations of the Diocese of OloronManuscripts from the 17th century in the Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques

At the beginning of the 13th century, this place became the Commandery of Aubertin - the main establishment of the Priory of Sainte-Christine-du-Somport on the northern slopes of the Pyrenees.Antonio Duràn Gudiol, El hospital de Somport entre Aragón y Bearn (siglos XII y XIII), colecciόn básica aragonesa, Saragosse, Guara, 1986 By contrast, the origin of the Bedosse family and the extension of their domains remains unknown. For centuries Monein continued to claim ownership of this enclave of the Commandery of Aubertin.Jean-Claude Lassègues, Lacommande, on the commandery hospital and the village, Centre de Généalogie des Pyrénées-Atlantiques, éd. Marrimpouey, 2012

Texts from the middle of the 12th century also report a lordship at Artiguelouve which extended from the Gave de Pau to the Baïse on the current communes of Artiguelouve and Aubertin. So, in 1160 Guillaume of Artiguelouve and one called Loup Bergunh sold the land and woods located on the right bank of the Bayse for grazing their herds to the priory of Sainte-Christine-du-Somport and the Aubertin hospital.Jukka Kiviharju, op. cit., No. 87

Although the territory of the present village of Aubertin has long remained in the orbit of the lordship of Artiguelouve,The château of Aubertin sometimes changed hands. So, at the end of the 13th century, it was exchanged between the Gers family of Faudoas and the Commander of Aubertin before returning to the lordship of Artiguelouve from the beginning most people seem to have attended the church of the Commandery. The count by Gaston Febus in 1385 reported a parish of Aubertii distinct from that of Artiguelobe.Paul Raymond, General count of houses in the Viscounty of Béarn in 1385 by order of Gaston Febus, Pau, Manucius, 2000 It comprised a total of 46 fires including 3 which were explicitly at Aubertin the hospital.

In 1402, the lord of Artiguelouve made common cause with the commandery of Aubertin in a lawsuit between them and the community of MoneinE353, Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques but in 1538 the commander of Aubertin, Jean de Borau, reported that Arnaud Guilhem d'Artiguelouve had usurped the rights of the Commandery.Communal Archives of Monein, FF6, No. 3, Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques Relations between the two communities were close but fluctuated.

When Arnaud Guilhem d'Artiguelouve married Anne d'Albret on 9 February 1534Bulletin of the Society of Sciences, Letters and Arts of Pau, 1911 (SER2, T39), p. 256 he was called Lord of Artiguelouve, Aubertin, and Montardon and appeared to be at the height of his glory. The situation gradually deteriorated over the generations.62J, Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques In 1555 his son, Arnaud, sold half the tithes from Artiguelouve and Aubertin to Peyrot de Pedelaborde of Lagor.E1336 and E1481, Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques He was soon no longer designated as Lord of Artiguelouve and Aubertin which suggested the final sale of the lordship of Montardon. Genealogy of France On the other hand, the inhabitants of Aubertin had some autonomy in the management of their affairs as they were represented by a trustee and 5 aldermen from 1570 during some events of the Protestant Reformation.Historical Archives of Gironde, 1896, T31, p. 145 Around 1583 Arnaud d'Artiguelouve afiefed the woods of Aubertin as surety for a loan.E1497, Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques Bernard, who succeeded Arnaud, remained lord of Artiguelouve and Aubertin but debts accumulated. His son John was forced to sell the chateau and lands of Aubertin to François de Navailles on 30 June 1640.B678, Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques Finally, Jean sold the lordship of Artiguelouve itself to Pierre de Fouron on 11 April 1642.A. Dufau de Maluquer, Arms of Béarn, Vol. III, p. 306, Edition des Régionalismes, 2011

30 June 1640 was a crucial date in the history of Aubertin. It affirmed the identity of the village and marked the emergence of a new centre of power from an Artiguelouve lordship which disintegrated to a commandery which, after the Reformation, passed to the control of the Barnabites of Lescar. Five generations of Navailles-Mirepeix would follow in Aubertin. The last, Louis-François, gave a reckoning of his domain of Aubertin for the Parliament of Navarre on 8 July 1776.B5761, Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques This document gives a fairly accurate picture of the lordship of Aubertin before the French Revolution.Jean-Claude Lassègues, The lordship of Aubertin before the Revolution, Généalogie des Pyrénées-Atlantiques, 2011, No. 103, p. 11

Some years before, in 1773, he initiated a project to build a church near the chateau with the support of the Bishop of Oloron. This project was not successful because Louis-François de Navailles emigrated to Spain during the Revolution. The Aubertin people felt duty-bound to continue and financed most of the Church of Saint-Blaise in Lacommande, the adjacent cemetery, and the church rectory, although two separate communes were created in 1790. They continued, however, to be only one parish until 1867 when the opening of a church in Aubertin and a new historical turning point: a village centre could finally develop around its bell tower, to which was added a cemetery, manse, town hall, and a school.Jean-Claude Lassègues, The history of the commune of Aubertin and Lacommande, Généalogie des Pyrénées-Atlantiques, 2010, No. 102, p. 3

• the Communauté d'agglomération Pau Béarn Pyrénées;
• the SIVOM of the Canton of Lasseube;
• the joint association for the Gave de Pau;
• the SIVU for the development and management of the rivers in the Baises basin;
• the association for the development of the Drainage basin of the Juscle and its tributaries;

• The commune is part of the Appellation d'origine contrôlée zone of Jurançon AOC and Béarn AOC. Economic activity is mainly agricultural. Aubertin is also part of the AOC zone of Ossau-iraty.
• In 1966, the Société Nationale des Pétroles d’Aquitaine (SNPA - now part of Elf Aquitaine) discovered gas in Aubertin. Two gas wells are still active.

• A very old Bridge over the Bayse at Goua-de-Labat
• The Château de Navailles

• A Chapel was built just before the French Revolution in another place near the Château de Navailles, but it was destroyed before it was used.

• There is a primary school built in 1880 with a canteen and a fronton in the courtyard.
• There is a public sports facility with a bowling pitch, tennis courts, and a handball court.

• Jean Reyau, Mayor of Aubertin from 1831 to 1842, was a bodyguard for Louis XVIII.
• Albert Peyroutet, born in Aubertin in 1931 and died in 2009, was an Occitans writer and an associate professor of English and Occitan.
• René Camy, teacher, mayor, and General Councillor of the Canton of Lasseube (1965-1976), Chevalier of the Legion of Honour with academic palms.

• Communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department

• Aubertin on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website
• Aubertin on the 1750 Cassini Map