Château Saint Georges Côte Pavie: Guillaume-Ignace
The estate was passed down through the generations, Joseph marrying Marie de Sauvanelle, producing another son Pierre César de Rabar, Baron de Baumelle. It seems that one of their daughters may have married Guillaume-Ignace Bouchereau de Saint Georges (born 1731). He was président trésorier of France for the Guyenne region, the trésorier system having been established by Henri de Navarre’s predecessor, Henry III of France (1551 – 1589) in 1577. Each region of France had five trésoriers, their role being to collect taxes and thereby ensure the royal coffers were kept well topped up. In doing so, there was potential to establish considerable wealth for themselves. Guillaume-Ignace is a character who has cropped up on these pages before, as with Louis de Maillet he was also co-seigneur of Corbin, his land there the forerunner of numerous modern-day estates including Château Grand Corbin and Château Grand Corbin-Despagne.
The Revolution saw the end of this system, the end of the old province of Guyenne itself, and Bordeaux also waved goodbye to Guillaume-Ignace who promptly emigrated. As was also the case with his other possessions, the Saint-Georges estate was sold off as a bien national, which explains how at this time it came into the hands of the Malet-Roquefort family. In the 1850 Cocks et Féret the Malet-Roquefort family appear as the proprietors of a number of estates, one of which was referred to as Peygenoustous et Saint Georges, this being the forerunner of the modern-day Château Saint Georges Côte Pavie. The owner at the time was Louis-Alexandre de Malet-Roquefort (1782 – 1862), and the vineyard was giving him on average 14 tonneaux per annum.
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