Pérignat-sur-Allier (, literally ''Pérignat on Allier''; oc, Pairinhat) is a
commune
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in the
Puy-de-Dôme
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Auvergne
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in central
France
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Clermont-Ferrand
Clermont-Ferrand (, ; ; oc, label=Auvergnat, Clarmont-Ferrand or Clharmou ; la, Augustonemetum) is a city and commune of France, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, with a population of 146,734 (2018). Its metropolitan area (''aire d'attract ...
and belongs to the community of communes of Billom Communauté. Its
inhabitants
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are called ''Pérignatois'' in French.
History
The first name of Pérignat was "Patrinoacum." An early hamlet evolved around the
villa
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of a certain Patrinius, an important landholder.Histoire du village, Mairie de de Pérignat-ès-Allier /ref> Under the
Romans
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a villa was the center of an estate dedicated to agricultural production, often extending hundreds of
hectare
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ceramic
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dated to the second century.
In the
Middle Ages
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the village had become a
fief
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of the family of the lords of
Cournon-d'Auvergne
Cournon-d'Auvergne (; Auvergnat: ''Cornon d'Auvèrnhe'') is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in central France. It lies southeast of Clermont-Ferrand, the prefecture and largest city of Puy-de-Dôme.
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by the eleventh century. The village's name evolved to "Payrinhac," as attested in an
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manuscript from 1240. By the fifteenth century, the village's name was extended to "Pérignat oultre l'Allier" ("Pérignat on the other side of the Allier") and had become a possession of the lords of Montmorin. The village still has vestiges of the medieval
fortified town
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.
By the end of the
Ancien Régime
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the name had become "Grand Pérignat," and later in the nineteenth century, "Pérignat-ès-Allier. There is controversy around the current name, Pérignat-sur-Allier," which resulted from a mistake in the registration of the name of the village at the end of the nineteenth century. In the town hall register one also finds the variant "Pérignat-s-Allier."
Monuments
The village's fortified Church of
Saint Agatha
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, which dates from the twelfth century, has been listed in the supplementary inventory of historic monuments since 1968. The church was remodeled in the 16th and 17th century and has a bell dated 1678.