Castelmayran (; ) is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Occitanie region in southern France.
Name According to Ernest Nègre,Toponymie générale de la France, p. 685. Castelmayran comes from the Occitan castèl (from the Latin castellum) and a Latin personal name, Marianus.
History Lordship of Castelmayran In the 12th century, the lordship belonged to a branch of the family of Argombat which founded the Cistercian abbey of Belleperche. And by 1143 the final transfer of the abbey was discussed at a meeting held in Castelmayran.
Castelmayran had several co-seigneurs over time, among whose Nicolas de Gourgues, the last one before the French Revolution.
Lectoure and Lomagne Before 1789, Castelmayran was a city of Gascony, in the diocese of Lectoure, and election of Lomagne.
Administration
The mayor of Castelmayran is Thierry Jamain, re-elected in 2020.
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See also Communes of the Tarn-et-Garonne department
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