Brambert Manor

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Le château en bref

Brambert Manor (also spelled Bramber) stands at the locality of the same name, in the commune of Pénestin, in the Morbihan department, near the estuary of the Vilaine. It was the seat of the first seigneury of the parish, already mentioned in the fourteenth century, which gave its name to an old family of Brambert whose arms were "or, three bars sable". The de Sérent family also bore this name. The present residential building dates from the seventeenth century and was restored in the nineteenth century. In the seventeenth century, the estate belonged to the Le Bail family: Guillaume Le Bail (1617–1680) was its owner in 1645, and his son Gilles Le Bail succeeded him. Through the marriage of Anne-Marie Le Bail to Jean-Baptiste Masson, it passed to the Masson family. Their son Jean-Marie Masson (1755–1799), a lawyer and seneschal of the priory of Pénestin, later served as administrator of the Morbihan department and then as judge in the district of Guérande. The name Bramber also designated one of the frairies of the parish in the seventeenth century.