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Pouldergat (Municipality, Finistère, France)

by Arnaud Leroy

Presentation of Pouldergat
Municipal flag of Pouldergat

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Presentation of Pouldergat

The small city of Pouldergat (3,000 inhabitants, 2,995 ha) is located in the southwesternmost part of Brittany (Cornouaille), sixth kilometers south of the port of Douarnenez, once the French capital city of sardine and the first city in France to have elected a Communist mayor.

The name of the city of Pouldergat (known in 1126 in Latin as Plebe Sancti Ergadi, St. Ergat's parish, and in Breton as Plodergat) recalls its founder St. Ergat. According to Mr de la Villemarque (in Revue de Bretagne et de Vendée, 1887), Ergat (aka Argad) belonged to the tribe of Corisopites, who lived in Northern Brittany; he was the son of the bard Loumarc'h, King of the small state of Argouët, and he was himself a bard. The local tradition in Ploudergat claims that Ergad lived in the village of Kerdergat, located one km southwest of Ploudergat. There are, however, no historical nor hagiographical details on St. Ergat's life, whose name has only survived in a few place names, such as Pouldergat, Tréouergat (the churches of the two villages share the saint's relics), Pouégat and Plouégat.
Ergad and his fellows probably settled in the V-VIth century in the sout