12. TEMPLE

The terminology of the "Temple" recalls the ancient Templar property existing in this village. Although it was not known when it was acquired, it belonged to the preceptory of Baugy, which Roger III Bacon, seigneur of Molay, founded around 1148 in the parish of Planquery. The vocation of this religious and military order concerned the protection of pilgrims in the Holy Land, and that of military troops during the passage into Byzantine land. Soon, donations enabled him to become a powerful organization in Europe and lend to monarchs. One of them, Philip IV the Fair, the ambitious king of France, jealous of their powers, decided the pope to provoke his fall. The Templars arrested, the order had to be dissolved following this blow of net of October 13, 1307. Our imaginary did not retain from this event the fear of Friday 13.

Subsequently, the preceptory of Baugy passed into the hands of the Hospitallers, who administered it until the French Revolution.

Constituted in fief, the property of Cahagnes brought to the preceptory an income of 4 pounds 10 soils in 1320. At that time, there was still the seigneurial house. It was built in an enclosure of 55 acres (about 44 hectares) of land, bounded by the river and Rivière de la Millière towards the Caillerie. It seems that its total area did not change over the centuries. In 1742, 25 farmers, including noble Cahagnais, shared its 216 yards (about 43 hectares). However, the property was the object of the transfer of pieces of land, since the fief also extended over the parish of Jurques (La Verge de Jurques).

At the French Revolution, more precisely in 1792, an expert estimated all the assets of the preceptory with the aim of their sale or alienation... On that day, however, he was not interested in his Cahagnaise properties, which were certainly sold to private individuals. Today there is no trace of this past.