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Commanderie des Andrivaux

Commanderie des Andrivaux, Medieval commandry in Chancelade, France.

Commanderie des Andrivaux is a medieval commandry near Chancelade featuring structures from different periods. The complex comprises three buildings: the main residence, a pavilion, and a farmhouse, with a crypt inside that has three window openings.

Founded in 1139 when Geoffroi I de Cauze, Bishop of Périgueux, gave the parish to the Templars, who settled in an abandoned cloister. Donations followed: the forest of Lancinade around 1150, the Chambon mill in 1228, the Cortils fief around 1245. In 1312 the commandry passed to the Hospitallers of Saint John, who united it with Condat around 1440.

The church of the hamlet, now destroyed, was dedicated by the Templars to Saint Maurice; the Hospitallers added Saint Blaise. Only its crypt, pierced by three windows, survives. In the neighbouring cemetery stood a tall lantern of the dead, destroyed in the 19th century.

The remains stand in the hamlet of Les Andrivaux, on the western edge of Périgueux, at the crossing of the chemin des Templiers and the route des Andrivaux. The site was the former commune of Andrivaux, merged with Merlande after the Revolution and attached to Chancelade in 1809. The church is gone; only its crypt, pierced by three windows, survives, and the commander's lodging keeps its cellars, paving and a fireplace.

The commandry's last Templar preceptor, Géraud de Lavernhe, held office from 1298 to 1306 and was among the seventy Périgord Templars imprisoned at Domme in 1307. The hamlet's church, dedicated by the Templars to Saint Maurice, is now destroyed; only its crypt, pierced by three windows, survives.

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