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LEVIS'S JEANS
Louis de Panat having no children made(did) of his nephew, Jean de Lévis, the heir of all his possessions. Jean was a son of his sister Catherine de Panat, married in 1408 to Gaston de Lévis Lord of Léran.
Louis put as condition in his donation the obligation for his nephew to carry(wear) the name and Panat's weapons. It explains that Panat's name continued through families in the different names: Lévis, Castelpers, Brunet.
THE CASTELPERS
Raymond de Castelpers-Panat
Being Jean de Lévis too without children, it(he) made(did) his heir, Marguerite de Narbonne, his niece, bride in 1513 to Raymond de Castelpers, to which she(it) brought all the possessions of Panat's house
Jean de Castelpers-Panat
He had married en1550 Jeanne de Clermont-Lodève, fervent Protestant and authoritarian woman. She raised(brought up) her three children: Jean, Jacques and Anne in the reformed religion.
Jean de Castelpers-Panat and the religious wars
Jean and his brother jacques played an important role during the religious wars. Governor of Millau, Jean III was elected, in 1572 , by the Protestants to command(order) them in Rouergue and in Cevennes. With his(her) brother, they wared against the Catholics in the regions of Millau and Saint-Affrique, to Sommières, in Castrate and in Vigan, Jacques was killed in 1577.
Jean did not participate in Saint-Sernin's grip on March 9, 1573 by the captain protesting Dupuy who made knife 180 Catholics.
It(he) did not intervene in the fight than Catholics were engaged(surrendered) in Sailing, in February, 1587, and Protestant for the ownership of the hook on which was the castle, in the northeast of the church.
No document states an intervention of the Protestants to Coupiac. It seems curious, given that their leader was a Lord of Coupiac. It is necessary to believe that Jean III wanted to avoid carrying(wearing) the war and his devastations his own lands.
He died, in 1598. In his will, drafted in 1597, in Thouels's castle, he asks that " his body is buried in the shape of the reformed religion, in the grave of his(her) father, in Notre-Dame-de-Massiliergues's church ".
David de Castelpers-Panat
He had only a girl, Anne, married to Louis de Brunet, his cousin, in 1631. David was very good and charitable if one judges it by the important legacies that he made(did) for the different persons in his service. He would have should die towards 1661. In his will, drafted to Thouels in 1653, he asks that " his body is buried in Notre-Dame-de-Massiliergues's church, in the grave of his(her) predecessors ". As it(he) appeals to the intercession of the Virgo Marie and saints, we are certain that he was catholic, contrary to his father.
THE BRUNET
Louis de Brunet Castelpers-Panat
By its(his) marriage with Anne, unique(only) girl of David, it(he) inherited possessions of Panat, Lévis, Castelpers, on the condition of carrying(wearing) the name of these families.
Seriously hurt(damaged) on May 16, 1649 in the last war of Guyenne, it(he) made out a was and died the same day to Libourne. He left three girls and three boys among whom Jean Samuel, his heir. His wife died also before her father, David, before 1661.
Jean Samuel Brunet de Castelpers, viscount of Panat
Grandson of David and son(thread) of Louis de Brunet, he married, on February 25, 1660, Jacqueline d' Epinchal. In 1674, the marshal of Albret wrote to him(her): " as to one of his(her) most considerable friends and on whom it(he) counted to defend(forbid) the threatened coasts of Guyenne. "
In two indicated documents, but which we were not able to find, Jean Samuel made(did), in the one, in 1671 , the enumeration of his multiple possessions, in 50 pages; in the other one, it(he) indicated(appointed) all the backs - vassals and backs - fiefs situated on the seigneury of Coupiac and Beaver.
On November 19, 1704, he is carried(worn) as inhabitant of Coupiac, in the church book, on the occasion of the marriage of his daughter Louise, with Félix Saussol de Connac.
Joseph Brunet Castelpers, called a marquees of Panat
Son(thread) of Jean Samuel, he married Marie de Toulouse-Lautrec on January 27, 1700; one of its threads was baptized to Coupiac on October 20, 1703; other one of its threads, been born on October 12, 1704, was baptized in the church Coupiac's John Dory by Vernhet, archiprêtre. The godfather and the godmother were two beggars of the place: Antoine Rouquette and Angélique Fabre.
Joseph died in 1739 and his wife in 1745.
Joseph Brunet Castelpers-Panat
Fourth new children of Joseph Ier, he succeeded his father as count of Panat, viscount of Peyrebrune and Cadars, baron of Pujols, Lord of Coupiac, Beaver, Thouels...
In 1750, he married Françoise de La Rochefoucauld-Langeac, sister of the cardinal of The Rochefoucauld-Langeac, sister of the cardinal of The Rochefoucauld, archbishop of Rouen.
He was a knight of the order of Saint Louis, captain and was leader of squadron of the naval armies of France.
Given the rank and its role on the national plan, one should often not see him(it) in the different castles, already doubtless well damaged.
It is he, nevertheless, who asked, in 1753 , for the construction of a church in Coupiac to replace that of Massiliergues and the chapel John Dory, too small to contain the crowd of the believers(regular customers) coming to worship the "Saint veil".
In a document of 1760, it(he) raised(drew up) the inventory of all its(his) possessions in the seigneury of Coupiac: castle, stables, attics, garden, meadow, wood, more censives, champarts and the other rights on lands were granted to lease to private individuals. He died in 1776, dean of the general officers of the navy.
Dominique, François de Brunet, count of Panat
Been born on August 3, 1752, he succeeded his father in 1776. He was the last one of the de Panat, an owner of the castle and the seigneury of Coupiac.
Indeed, it(he) sold quite, in 1778 , to Izarn de Méjanel, governor of Saint-Sernin.
The biggest part(party) of the selling price, which was fixed to 75 000 books(pounds), was used to pay the debts of the count of Panat. Once these were deducted, there were to the salesman 30 000 books(pounds).
On the other hand, if one judges it by the important repairs made(done) by the buyer, the castle should be for the better bad state and practically uninhabitable.
The sale of the castle by Panat, a little bit before the Revolution of 1789, was doubtless worth him(her) the luck(chance) not to have been destroyed(annulled) or at least to very damaged, contrary to so many other castles in France, either demolished, or transformed into "stony careers".