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Esmonts

Canton of Fribourg · District: Glâne · 157 inhabitants (2000, former municipality of Esmonts, last figure before the merger)
Part of the municipality of Ursy
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Origin of the name Esmonts

The place is called « villa de Mont » in 996, later « dîme de Mont », « bailliage des Monts » and « Les Monts ». The form « ès Monts », which gave the present name, is recorded in 1832.[1][2]

Founding of Esmonts

Esmonts appears in 996 in a charter of King Rudolph III of Burgundy, who granted the knight Balfred and his wife Willerma, as a precarium, property of the abbey of Saint-Maurice d'Agaune at Mont that the couple had earlier given to the abbey. The village then probably belonged to the lords of Prez and came under the Vaud castellany of Moudon. It lives from crops (barley, wheat, beet), livestock and dairying. Esmonts is now part of the municipality of Ursy (merger of 2012), having joined Vuarmarens in 2006.[1][2]

History of Esmonts

996. Rudolph III of Burgundy grants the knight Balfred and his wife Willerma, as a precarium, property of Saint-Maurice d'Agaune in the « villa de Mont ».[1][2]

Middle Ages. The lords of Prez probably hold the place.[1][2]

1344. Richard de Prez gives the tithe « de Mont » to the hospital of Moudon.[1][2]

1536 (or 1636). Esmonts leaves the castellany of Moudon, in the bailiwick of Vaud, for the Fribourg bailiwick of Rue.[1][2]

1544. The hospital of Moudon sells the tithe to the government of Fribourg.[1][2]

1745. The village adopts municipal statutes.[1][2]

1798. The municipality passes to the district of Rue.[1][2]

1832. The name is written « ès Monts ».[1]

1834. The cantonal road regulations oblige Esmonts to haul 96 cartloads of stone a year.[2]

1848. Esmonts joins the district of the Glâne.[1][2]

1869. The parish of Morlens, to which the village belongs, becomes the parish of Ursy-Morlens.[1]

2006. Esmonts merges with Vuarmarens, under a decree of 16 March 2005.[1][3]

2012. Together with Vuarmarens, Esmonts joins the municipality of Ursy.[1][3]

Population of Esmonts

Sources and references: [1]

Population of Esmonts
181168
1850118
1900168
1930203
1950182
2000157

Sources

  1. Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse, « Esmonts » (Evelyne Maradan, version du 27.09.2016)
  2. Commune d'Ursy, « Historique »
  3. État de Fribourg, Recueil systématique (RSF 141.1.2), « Liste chronologique des fusions, divisions et changements de nom des communes »

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