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They sold it, by a contract dated August 4, 1715, to their relative, belonging to a family of Breton parliamentarians related to the Sévigné family, Jean-Paul Hay, marquis of Nétumières, eldest son of Paul Hay, marquis of Nétumières, and Françoise de Bréhant, then heirs of
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made in 1427, in the bishopric of Rennes, by the commissioners Alain Le Jambu and Éon
Pofraie, several nobles are mentioned under the title of Notre-Dame de Vitré, including Messire Guillaume de Sévigné, lord of the farm Rochiers (Rochers), du Boullays, de la Ferrière, de la Baillerie, de la Marre,
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Rochers belonged in 1270 to Jamet de Sévigné, lord of Rochers, it is rather likely following Canon Amédée Guillotin de Corson that the Sévigné family did not establish themselves in the Vitré region until the 14th century, following the marriage contracted in 1355 by
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The small château was built on a rocky hill – from which it derives its name – by the ancestors of Henri de Sévigné, a Breton nobleman, who married Marie de
Rabutin-Chantal in 1644. The residence is built in an L-shaped plan and has two towers. There is also an octagonal chapel, built by Madame de
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was created in 1689 and restored in 1982. The whole property is bordered by a wooded park whose alleys were all named by Madame de Sévigné, who stayed at the château des
Rochers several times after her husband's death. It was in this residence that she wrote many of her famous letters to her
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In 1410, Anne de
Mathefelon, daughter and main heiress of Guillaume de Mathefelon, knight, lord of Rochers, married, by contract of March 10, Guillaume III de Sévigné, lord of the said place and of Châtelet; she brought him the lordship of Rochers: during the
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of La Haye de Torcé, located in the parish of Torcé: this land belonged during the 15th and 16th centuries to the family of
Bouschet. La Haye de Torcé, like Rochers, was under the jurisdiction of the
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Rochers then belonged to the lords of Mathefelon, who almost successively (from 1295 to 1370) provided three abbesses to the abbey of Saint-Georges de Rennes.
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It was the son of Jean-Paul Hay des Nétumières, Charles Paul Hay des Nétumières, and his wife, Marie Rose de Larlan de
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From this time and for three consecutive centuries, the lords of Sévigné owned
Rochers, and the château remained continuously in the Sévigné family until the 18th century.
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The seigneury of Rochers, despite its antiquity, was not a high jurisdiction; it only enjoyed medium and low justice exercised in Vitré in 1667 in the auditorium of the
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