Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Colonne des Trente
Guillac, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Colonne des Trente (cad. ZI 15) : inscription par arrêté du 17 mai 1933
- Protection dates
- 1933/05/17 : inscrit MH
- Type
- obélisque
- Ownership
- propriété du département
- Address
- enclos de la Pyramide
- Commune
- Guillac
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.93754, -2.48696
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091266
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1708 map "Le Bretagne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Obélisque mesurant treize mètres, commémorant le combat ayant eu lieu le 27 mars 1351, où combattirent trente chevaliers anglais contre trente chevaliers bretons menés par Jean de Beaumanoir. Une croix avait été placée à cet endroit au 17e siècle. Brisée en 1793, elle fut à nouveau rétablie avec les débris de la première, au même emplacement. Elle est placée derrière l'obélisque.
English translation
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History
Obelisk measuring thirteen metres, commemorating the combat which took place on 27 March 1351, where thirty English knights fought against thirty Breton knights led by Jean de Beaumanoir. A cross had been placed at this location in the 17th century. Broken in 1793, it was again restored with the debris of the first, at the same location. It is placed behind the obelisk.
Nearby in the register
- Chapelle Saint-Maudéchapelleunder 1 mi
- Croix de la Ville-Côtecroix monumentaleunder 1 mi
- Croix de la Villemenocroix monumentale1 mi
- Croix de Beloncroix monumentale1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.