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Gisant de Guillaume de Goudelin et Marie de Portztrévenon

gisant de Guillaume de Goudelin et Marie de Portztrévenon

France Goudelin object classified as a historical monument
Gisant de Guillaume de Goudelin et Marie de Portztrévenon
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Guillaume de Goudelin and Marie de Portztrevenon lier in the Notre-Dame de l'Isle chapel in Goudelin, a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany, France, is a 15th-century layr. It was classified as a historical monument as an object on 11 April 1911.

This granite lying by Guillaume de Goudelin (decapted in 1420 for having participated in the conspiracy of the Penthièvres against the Duke of Brittany Jean V), Viscount of Pléhédel, and his wife Marie, lady of Portztrevenon (known as Marie de Goudelin), is found after the Revolution under a confessional of Saint Peter's Church. At the beginning of the 20th century the layr was abandoned: "This tomb, which was to occupy in the old church of Goudelin the middle of the choir, is today relegated to a corner of the cemetery under the sewer of the roof of the church, littered with slate debris and slats thrown from the top of the roof by the roofers. It takes to get to the monument to cross piles of infected worldliness. Such a lack of understanding cannot be understood by the Rector and the municipality of Goudelin. Nothing would be simpler than keeping this...