Reuilly in the 13éme century spelt. Notary's practice of Pierres before 1789 belonged in under - bailliage of Tinchebray
In 1789 the representatives were: J. Valley, priest - G. Pigault, notary and Mr Lefèvre, ploughman.
Situation 1865
Surface: 957 ha 13 has 56 ca
Population: 737 inhabitants
Taxes: 5.021 Frcs
Mayor: Lelouvel
Priest: Lechonnaux
Schoolteacher: François
Schoolteacher: Fournerie
997 Ha - 212 Inhabitants - 31 in Km2 ( 1990 ) - 203 in 1999
Situation 2001:
Voters : 145
Mayor :
Quillard
Councillors : Boudonnet, Durand, Feillet, Guérin, Leteinturier, Ollivier, Chevalier, Borel, Durand, Gilbert.
Secretary :
Esnault
City hall : open Thursday 15h30 / 17h30 - Phone . 02 31 67 81 67
List Marriages 1631/1792
The first known Lord was Guillaume de Bray who took part in the conquest of England in 1066.
In 1356, Guillaume de Bray was a Lord of Rully, his daughter married Thomas de Rouvencestre, Lord of Pierre, her son Jean who took an active part in the fight against the English, was one of
the knights who defended the Mont St Michel. His daughter Chardine married towards 1420 Guillaume de la Bigne. In 1463 the Lord was Bertrand de la Bigne. Then Robert de la Bigne, died without
children, Rully's earth returned to his sister Péronne of the Bigne married to Jehan III Doulcet. Their son Robert left a son Jacques, a knight of the order of king.
In 1661 the Lord was Rolland Doulcet, captain chief warrant officer of a regiment of cavalry, his daughter married Pierre de Collardin whose son Jean Baptist was a boss of Rully in 1735.
In 1785 François Aimable de la Roque, marshal of the armies of king, was the last Lord of Rully.
The primitive church was built right by the castle, a hedge separated this one of the cemetery, dedicated to Saint Martin it was burned by the Huguenots in 1570, and repaired temporarily, the
cemetery had no more fence, horses and the other cattle passed there. The pourceaux of the local residents circulated in it freely. It was necessary to wait for 1625 so that the prosecutor of
king orders the necessary works.
In the review Our bell towers of 1914, it is noted that since 1856 there were three bells named Clémentine, Elisa and Caution, and in the nef several clothes, Raphael's old copies and
Rubens. The patronage belonged to the Lords of St Christophe de Rully and the tithes collected by the priest.
In 1304 Nicolas de Bray Lord of Moncy was cleaned out by Rully, another Nicolas de Bray was him in 1364. From 1495 till 1523 Marguarin de la Bigne was the priest, a doctor in theology, the
professor and the vice-chancellor of the university of Caen in 1504, he was cleaned out at the same time by Tallevendes, canon in Bayeux's cathedral. he made serve Rully's cure by a vicar. His
successor was Guillaume de Saint Manvieu. In 1700, François Loysel was the priest and got 1200 livres of income for 700 inhabitants, he succeeded Jullien Collardin, doctor in Sorbonne.
Lands belonged to the president of Boisollivier (Pierre Collardin).
On November 4, 1795,
Jacques Vallée, priest of Rully having refused to take oath in the civil constitution of the clergy, was surprised by the revolutionaries and shot in the
place or is the sacristy. His vicar native of Bernières Patry succeeded in running away. A registration on the girder of the door reminds its sad end, and the following death
certificate:.
Today fourteenth day of the month of brumère fourth year of the French republic one and inseparable, at three o'clock of later - midy, along the front of us Jean Angué general
member of ruilly department of the Calvados district of Vire, elected on December 9 thousand seven hundred ninety two, old man stille, to draft acts intended to notice the births marriages and
death of the citizens appeared in the Town Hall of ruilly, the citizen gilles anne, 65-year-old, the carpenter, the native of the municipality of Prêlle, took up residence in this
municipality in Bully's village, Bully's section, which assisted of the citizen charles leperdrieux 48-year-old, weaver, native and taken up residence in this municipality, and of the citizen
Baptist Jean 27-year-old anne, turner, both taken up residence in the village of bully, friends of dead, the nômé jacques valley cy in front of priest of ruilly, who was
assasiné at night of the twelve in the thirteen of the present month of brumère in the cemetery of ruilly, Ayncy that the witnesses cy above and other we onts declared that it(he)
avet received two gunshots in the poiterine, which luy had pâsé through the body and a blow of sabre or ball which luy avet cut the right hand half. According to this statement. I
transported myself in the cemetery of this place where I made sure of the death of says jacques valley this in front of priest of ruilly, having received a letter from prémisson of the
citizen Jean Baptist Dumont magistrate of Vassy's canton on the fourteen brumère fourth republican annèe, I drafted the present act by virtue of the powers which are delegated to
me by the loy that gilles anne, leperdrieux charles, Baptist jeans anne witnesses and several others signed with moy. Made in ruilly, in daytimes, month and the year when above. It was omitted
that the dead cy-above was 68-year-old. - J. Angué notary-
Style and spelling origin of the death certificate
Guillaume Boivin de la Martinière or of Sonnardière the grave of which is in the cemetery, was born in Vire on January 10, 1745 of Philippe Boyvin and Jeanne Asselin,
died to Rully on July 7, 1820 in the manor house of Sonnardière which it had inherited from its father, this manor house, for lack of maintenance is now in ruins. He was a leader of the
artillery to the army of the North in the war for independence in America under the orders of the Count de Rochambeau, the colonel of artillery during the Revolution, was promoted brigadier the
12 ventôse the Year 12. He was a mayor of Rully, baron of Martinière, brigadier of the armies of retired king, knight of the royal and military order of St Louis, commander of the
Legion of Honour in his death. (declaration made by Pierre Anger, George Mauduit farmer and domestic of the deceased.)
Unique in Bass - Normandy, the war memorial of the war 1914/1918, is replaced by a chapel called Our Lady of Consolation to the memory of the twelve soldiers of the municipality
died for France.
April 15, 1895 took place the inauguration between Moncy's village and Vaucornet's village of the stations of the Cross, called Moncy's Calvaries. This work due to the abbot Duval, the priest
of Moncy, contained 14 crosses of oak and a statue of Our Lady of the Pity surrounded with 2 emblems representing checks and bad thieves. Victims of insects, these crosses should disappear one
after the other, without being replaced, their creator having died in 1900. This station of the Cross was near the ancient Roman way connecting Aunay on Odon with Tinchebray. Below what remains
of the work of the abbot Duval.
In the village of Mercou, the name of the saint having evangelized places, existed a fountain with a gigantic oak and a hawthorn, a statue of the Virgo was in a niche of the trunk. This statue
was the object of a pélerinage every spring. The fountain does not exist any more and trees were destroyed(annulled) for a long time.
Brooks: (state of 1855)
- The brook of Getrière, pass on Vassy where it throws itself into the Tortillon. Length 1.300 m.
- The brook Bidault which separates with Bernières where it throws itself into Diane. Length 1.500 m.
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