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Gévaudan is an historical area of France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
, nowadays situated in Lozère
Lozère

Loz?re , is a departments of France in southeast France near the Massif Central, named after Mont Loz?re....
 département. It took its name from the Gabali, a Gallic
Gallic

Gallic is an adjective that may refer to:*Gaul, from which the name derives, a region of Europe roughly corresponding to modern France, but also comprising parts of modern northern Italy, Belgium, western Switzerland and parts of the Netherlands and Germany....
 tribe subordinate to the Arverni
Arverni

Category:Tribes involved in Caesar's Gallic WarsThe Arverni were a Gallic tribe that inhabited the present-day region of Clermont-Ferrand, France....
.

History
After the conquest, the Romans preserved the capital city of the Gabali, Anderitum, which they renamed Gabalum and is nowadays called Javols
Javols

Javols is a Communes of France in the Loz?re Departments of France in southern France....
.

In the early Middle Ages
Middle Ages

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 Gévaudan was known as Pagus Gabalum and was placed under the rule of the Count of Toulouse.






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Gévaudan is an historical area of France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
, nowadays situated in Lozère
Lozère

Loz?re , is a departments of France in southeast France near the Massif Central, named after Mont Loz?re....
 département. It took its name from the Gabali, a Gallic
Gallic

Gallic is an adjective that may refer to:*Gaul, from which the name derives, a region of Europe roughly corresponding to modern France, but also comprising parts of modern northern Italy, Belgium, western Switzerland and parts of the Netherlands and Germany....
 tribe subordinate to the Arverni
Arverni

Category:Tribes involved in Caesar's Gallic WarsThe Arverni were a Gallic tribe that inhabited the present-day region of Clermont-Ferrand, France....
.

History


After the conquest, the Romans preserved the capital city of the Gabali, Anderitum, which they renamed Gabalum and is nowadays called Javols
Javols

Javols is a Communes of France in the Loz?re Departments of France in southern France....
.

In the early Middle Ages
Middle Ages

File:Karl 1 mit papst gelasius gregor1 sacramentar v karl d kahlen.jpgThe Middle Ages of European history are a period in history which lasted for roughly a millennium, commonly dated from the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century to the beginning of the Early Modern Period in the 16th century, marked by the division of Western Christi...
 Gévaudan was known as Pagus Gabalum and was placed under the rule of the Count of Toulouse. In 1096 the Count of Toulouse, leaving for the Crusade, transmitted his rights on the eastern part of Gévaudan to the Bishop of Mende.

In the beginning of the 10th century, Mende
Mende, Lozère

Mende is a Communes of France of France in the Loz?re Departments of France of which it is the capital.It is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mende....
 had supplanted Javols as religious and administrative capital of the Gévaudan. The western part of Gévaudan constituted the Viscounty of Grèzes.

In the 12th century Adalbert
Adalbert

Adalbert may refer to:* Adalbert * Saint Adalbert of Egmond aka Adelbert of Egmond, Northumbrian missionary* Adalbert of Magdeburg * Saint Adalbert of Prague , "The Apostle of the Prussians"...
, Bishop of Mende, decided to take advantage of the lack of interest of the nominal rulers of Gévaudan to increase his personal power. Louis VII of France
Louis VII of France

Louis VII, called the Younger or the Young, , was List of French monarchs, the son and successor of Louis VI of France . He ruled from 1137 until his death....
 granted him temporal power over the region by the Golden Bull
Golden Bull

A Golden Bull or baal was a golden ornament representing a seal , attached to a decree issued by Byzantine Emperors and later by monarchs in Europe during the Middle Ages and Renaissance....
 of Gévaudan (Bulle royale du Gévaudan). Therefore, Gévaudan was the first Occitan
Occitan language

Occitan , known also as Lenga d'?c or Langue d'oc is a Romance languages spoken in Occitania, that is, Southern France, the Occitan Valleys of Italy, Monaco and in the Aran Valley of Spain....
-speaking country to acknowledge the nominal suzerainty of the king of France.

Gévaudan was divided into eight baronies which were in constant rebellion against the Bishop of Mende.

According to the 1307 peerage the Bishop of Mende was granted the title of count of Gévaudan and could mint coins and dispense lower justice.

Although being nominally part of Languedoc
Languedoc

Languedoc is a former province of France, now continued in the modern-day List of regions in France of Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyr?n?es in the south of France, and whose capital city was Toulouse, now in Midi-Pyr?n?es....
, Gévaudan kept its own States General until 1789. During the same period, Gévaudan was a crossroad of pilgrimage trails.

In the beginning of the 16th century Gévaudan was extremely wealthy, but the religious wars ruined the country. The Protestants settled in the city around 1550.

The area was victim to a series of vicious attacks in the 18th century by an unidentified beast
Beast of Gévaudan

The Beast of G?vaudan is a name given to man-eater wolf animals that terrorized the Provinces of France of G?vaudan , in the Margeride Mountains in south-central France from 1764 to 1767 over an area stretching ....
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As many other areas in France, Gévaudan was bled dry during the two World Wars.

See also

  • Beast of Gévaudan
    Beast of Gévaudan

    The Beast of G?vaudan is a name given to man-eater wolf animals that terrorized the Provinces of France of G?vaudan , in the Margeride Mountains in south-central France from 1764 to 1767 over an area stretching ....