The mother of St. Vincent de Paul, Bertrand de Moras was a family of lawyers, the Moras, De Moras, or at Morar.

They had houses in Dax, a mansion in Pouy, not far from the church, which still exists, very little restored it must be noted that while in France and Savoy, in all circles, married women kept their maiden name, never the husband.

The mother of Saint Vincent was not called Bertrande Paul. The Moras were mainly from an area about twenty miles south of Dax, on the parish Orthevielle the Caverie Peyrous and adjacent to the farms of the district Moras.

The term "Caverie" has nothing to do with a "cave"; cavier, "cabier" is, according to a plausible hypothesis, a derivative of "caballero", "knight", "cavalier".

That is to say, the lowest degree of nobility, not a vassal or, in principle, the right to levy "hundred" or royalties, but which function as the guarantor of order and Security gave the right to have a horse.

This part of the Landes was attached to Bearn since 1240, but also Albret and through them to Navarre and Aragon, even in the mainstream English and law, as in Navarre, Aragon and Béarn gave the nobility land, not people:

A Caverie was a noble, free, no penalty in charge, but only became its owner "cavier", not the rest of the family, and he lost that status if he sold the land as the new buyer became cavier.

The grandfather of Vincent, and his uncle Jacques, were cavier of Peyroux, not his grandmother nor his mother nor his uncles. They stood together near the farm, Moras (remember the Moors who occupied much of southern France), hence the name of De Moras, or at Morar.

The de Moras were also home to the village of Moras Pouy.

Bertrande de Moras has been living his childhood Peyrous, with stays at home to Pouy Moras, who was perhaps a legacy bequeathed. Once married, she lived Ranquine owned by her husband. Once widow and Vincent in the distance, we do not know anything about her, the letter that Vincent wrote to him February 17, 1610 is more than copy.

As for Vincent, residing primarily with her parents, everything suggests that he was making trips with the grandparents at Peyrous where he could learn to read and learn the law and procedures, which he was expert in his youth and his life.

There's also learned to ride, farmers had oxen that he was an excellent horseman, and told in his letters throughout his journey from Paris to Richelieu, in the winter of February-March 1649.

He went to Mass with his grandparents in the church Orthevielle, about a mile and a half. This church still exists, just modified. On Orthevielle he descended join Barthes Gaves Meeting, where he was grazing herds the family, the castle Montgaillard, "I know him well, I retained the cattle in my youth and I was leading this side. "

Parish Orthevielle

It was the parish of grandparents, it was thus also that of Vincent during his visits.

It fell as Bidache, the Diocese of Dax, and was part of the Vicomte Orthe element of the Principality - Comte de Gramont, to Bidache.

During childhood and youth of Vincent, the Count was a wife, Diane of Andouins, nicknamed "the beautiful Corisande" widow at 26 years of Philibert de Gramont in 1580, one of the mistresses of Henry IV, she let County to his son Anthony II in 1601.

By his grandfather and uncles, the young Vincent certainly heard about these great nobles, and was perhaps the chance to meet or attend, how else to explain that when 16 he was tonsured to Bidache by the Bishop of Tarbes, linked to Gramont? and late 1608 - 1609, once in Paris, in conjunction with Henry IV and named among the chaplains, distributors of alms, Queen Margot.

 
The church Saint-Pierre (like Pouy) was the sixteenth century, unlike that of Pouy is still one where Vincent came to pray. One can notice a very rare statue of Vincent is a little poor, certainly, but it tends bread.

The Caveri of Orthevielle called "Castle Montgaillard.