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Avranches
Avranches (; ) is a commune in the Manche department, and the region of Normandy, northwestern France. It is a subprefecture of the department. The inhabitants are called ''Avranchinais''. History Middle Ages By the end of the Roman period, the settlement of ''Ingena'', capital of the Abrincatui tribe, had taken the name of the tribe itself. This was the origin of the name ''Avranches''. In 511 the town became the seat of a diocese (suppressed in 1790) and subsequently of a major Romanesque cathedral dedicated to Saint Andrew, Avranches Cathedral, which was dismantled during the French revolutionary period. As the region of Brittany emerged from the Roman region of Armorica, Avranchin was briefly held by Alan I, King of Brittany as part of the Kingdom of Brittany at the turn of the 10th century. The regions that later became the Duchies of Normandy and Brittany each experienced devastating Viking raids, with Brittany occupied by Vikings from 907 to 937. In 933 Avranches and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Hugh D'Avranches, 1st Earl Of Chester
Hugh d'Avranches ( 1047 – 27 July 1101), nicknamed ''le Gros'' (the Large) or ''Lupus'' (the Wolf), was from 1071 the second Norman Earl of Chester and one of the great magnates of early Norman England. Early life and career Hugh d'Avranches was born around 1047 as the son of Richard le Goz, Viscount of Avranches. His mother was traditionally said to have been Emma de Conteville, half-sister of William the Conqueror, but Lewis (2014) states that the identification was made "on the basis of unsatisfactory evidence" and that his mother is unknown. Katharine Keats-Rohan, Keats-Rohan (1999), while accepting the poor quality of the evidence for the traditional account, has nonetheless argued in favour of some relationship existing between Hugh and William. Earl of Chester In 1071, Gerbod the Fleming, 1st Earl of Chester was taken prisoner at the Battle of Cassel (1071), Battle of Cassel in France and held in captivity. Taking advantage of the circumstances, the king decla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Avranches Cathedral
Avranches Cathedral (''Cathédrale Saint-André d'Avranches'') was once a Roman Catholic cathedral in Avranches in Normandy. The seat of the Bishop of Avranches, it was a Gothic construction, notable as the place of the penance of Henry II of England in 1172 for the murder of Thomas Becket. It was destroyed completely during the French Revolution and the site remains unbuilt on. The Diocese of Avranches was not reinstated after the revolution but under the Concordat of 1801 The Concordat of 1801 was an agreement between the First French Republic and the Holy See, signed by First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII on 15 July 1801 in Paris. It remained in effect until 1905, except in Alsace–Lorraine, ... was instead amalgamated with that of Coutances to form the Diocese of Coutances and Avranches. Sources * Ch.-A. de Beaurepaire, 1936: ''L'ancienne cathédrale d'Avranches'' (14pp). Bayeux: R.-P. Colas * Daniel Levalet: "La cathédrale Saint-André et les ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Canton Of Avranches
The canton of Avranches is an administrative division of the Manche department, northwestern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Avranches. It consists of the following communes: #Avranches (partly) # Bacilly # Carolles # Champeaux #Chavoy #Dragey-Ronthon # Genêts #Jullouville Jullouville () is a commune in the Manche department in north-western France. Population Heraldry Gallery File:JullouPlage.jpg File:PlageJullouville.JPG File:ChâteauMareJullouville.JPG File:CasinoJullouvilleAncien.jpg File:MairieJullouv ... # Lolif # Marcey-les-Grèves # Le Parc # Ponts # Saint-Jean-de-la-Haize # Saint-Jean-le-Thomas # Saint-Pierre-Langers # Sartilly-Baie-Bocage # Vains References Cantons of Manche {{Manche-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Communauté D'agglomération Mont-Saint-Michel-Normandie
Communauté d'agglomération Mont-Saint-Michel-Normandie is a ''communauté d'agglomération'', an intercommunal structure. It covers the southern part of the Manche department, in the Normandy region, northwestern France. Created in 2017, its seat is in Avranches.CA Mont-Saint-Michel-Normandie (N° SIREN : 200069425) BANATIC. Retrieved 11 November 2024. Its area is 1,543.9 km2. Its population was 87,613 in 2019.Comparateur de territoire [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Manche
Manche (, ; Norman language, Norman: ) is a coastal Departments of France, French ''département'' in Normandy (administrative region), Normandy on the English Channel, which is known as , literally "the sleeve", in French. Manche is bordered by Ille-et-Vilaine and Mayenne to the south, Orne and Calvados (department), Calvados to the east, the English Channel to the west and north and by sharing maritime borders with the Crown Dependencies of Bailiwick of Jersey and Bailiwick of Guernsey of the United Kingdom to the west. It had a population of 495,045 in 2019.Populations légales 2019: 50 Hérault INSEE History Manche is one of the original 83 Departments of France, established during the French Revolution on 26 February 1790. It was created from part of the province of ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Avranchin
Avranchin is an area in Normandy, France corresponding to the territory of the Abrincatui, a tribe of Celts from whom the city of Avranches, the main town of the Avranchin, takes its name. In 867, by the Treaty of Compiègne, Charles the Bald gave the Avranchin to Salomon, King of Brittany. In 933, it was reunited with the Duchy of Normandy by William I of Normandy. Geography Avranchin is located in the Armorican Massif south of Cotentin in the department of Manche in western or lower Normandy. The Thar river forms the northern border. The eastern border is formed by the Égrenne, a tributary of the Mayenne. To the north west lies the bay of Mont-Saint-Michel. The south west was once marked by the Couesnon river, however due to canal building in the 18th century the river now flows 4 km to the west of the region. The largest town in the area is Avranches. The village of Mortain is traditionally included as part of Avranchin. History Avranchin was once the territory of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Abrincatui
The Abrincatui were a Gallic tribe dwelling in the south of the Cotentin Peninsula during the Roman period. Name They are mentioned as ''Abrincatuos'' by Pliny (1st c. AD), ''’Abrinkátouoi'' (’Aβρινκάτουοι) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD), and as ''Abrincatis'' and ''Abrincateni'' in the ''Notitia Dignitatum'' (5th c. AD)., s.v. ''Abrincatui''. The city of Avranches, attested in the 6th c. AD as ''civitas'' ''Abrincatum'' ('civitas of the Abrincatui', ''Abrincae'' ca. 550, ''de Avrenchis'' in 1055–66), and the region of Avranchin, are named after the Gallic tribe. Geography The territory of the Abrincatui mostly corresponded the later regions of Avranchin and Mortainais. It was inherited with only slight border changes by the ''civitas'' ''Abrincatum'' and, later, by the diocese of Avranches. However, the area of Mortainais was mostly uninhabited until the Roman period, and remained sparsely populated at the turn of the first millennium AD. Two pre-Roman oppida ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Canton Of Isigny-le-Buat
The canton of Isigny-le-Buat is an administrative division of the Manche department, northwestern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Isigny-le-Buat. It consists of the following communes: #Avranches (partly) #Brécey # La Chaise-Baudouin # La Chapelle-Urée #Les Cresnays # Cuves # La Godefroy # Le Grand-Celland # Isigny-le-Buat #Juvigny les Vallées # Lingeard #Les Loges-sur-Brécey Les Loges-sur-Brécey (, literally ''Les Loges on Brécey'') is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. A small, very rural commune some 5 km North of the small town of Brecey. With no centre to the commun ... # Le Mesnil-Adelée # Le Mesnil-Gilbert # Notre-Dame-de-Livoye # Le Petit-Celland # Reffuveille # Saint-Brice # Saint-Georges-de-Livoye # Saint-Jean-du-Corail-des-Bois # Saint-Laurent-de-Cuves # Saint-Loup # Saint-Michel-de-Montjoie # Saint-Nicolas-des-Bois # Saint-S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Compromise Of Avranches
The Compromise of Avranches in 1172 marked the reconciliation of Henry II of England with the Catholic Church after the Becket controversy from 1163, which culminated with the murder in 1170 of Thomas Becket. Henry was purged of any guilt in Becket's murder, and swore to go on crusade. He agreed to allow appeals to the papacy in Rome, and to eliminate all customs to which the Church objected. He also agreed that the secular courts had no jurisdiction over the clergy, with the exceptions of high treason, highway robbery and arson: the benefit of clergy In English law, the benefit of clergy ( Law Latin: ''privilegium clericale'') was originally a provision by which clergymen accused of a crime could claim that they were outside the jurisdiction of the secular courts and be tried instead in an ec ... provision in English law.A. Dugaan, ‘Henry II, the English Church and the Papacy’, in C. Harper-Bill and N. Vincent (eds.), ''Henry II New Interpretations'' (Woodbridge, 2007), pp. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Henry II Of England
Henry II () was King of England The monarchy of the United Kingdom, commonly referred to as the British monarchy, is the form of government used by the United Kingdom by which a hereditary monarch reigns as the head of state, with their powers Constitutional monarchy, regula ... from 1154 until his death in 1189. During his reign he controlled Kingdom of England, England, substantial parts of Wales in the High Middle Ages, Wales and Lordship of Ireland, Ireland, and much of Kingdom of France, France (including Duchy of Normandy, Normandy, County of Anjou, Anjou, and Duchy of Aquitaine, Aquitaine), an area that altogether was later called the Angevin Empire, and also held power over Kingdom of Scotland, Scotland and the Duchy of Brittany. Henry was the eldest son of Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, and Empress Matilda, Matilda, daughter of Henry I of England. By the age of fourteen, he became politically and militarily involved in The Anarchy, his mother's efforts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Álvaro Vaz De Almada
Álvaro or Álvar (, , ) is a Spanish, Galician and Portuguese male given name and surname of Germanic Visigothic origin. The patronymic surname derived from this name is Álvarez. Given name Artists *Álvaro Carrillo, Afro-Mexican songwriter. *Alvaro (DJ), a DJ *Álvaro Díaz González (born 1972), Chilean screenwriter, producer and director *Álvaro Guerrero, Mexican film actor * Álvaro Guevara, Chilean painter * Álvaro López, British drummer *Álvaro Morte, Spanish film actor *Álvaro Mutis, Colombian poet, novelist, and essayist *Álvaro Pierri, Uruguayan classical guitarist *Álvaro Pombo, Spanish poet and novelist *Álvaro Soler, Spanish singer and songwriter *Álvaro Torres, Salvadoran singer and songwriter Politicians and statesmen *Álvaro Alsogaray (1913 - 2005), Argentine liberal politician. *Álvaro Arzú (1946–2018), President of Guatemala from 1996 to 2000 *Álvaro Antonio, Filipino politician *Álvaro Araújo Castro, Colombian politician *Álvaro Caminha (), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Alan I, King Of Brittany
Alan I (; died 907), called the Great,F. McNair (2015), "Vikings and Bretons? The Language of Factional Politics in Late Carolingian Brittany", ''Viking and Medieval Scandinavia'' 11: 183–202. was the Count of Vannes and Duke of Brittany (''dux Brittonium'') from 876 until his death. He was probably also the only King of Brittany (''rex Brittaniæ'') to hold that title by a grant of the Holy Roman Emperor, Emperor. Expulsion of Vikings Alan was the second son of Rivallo IV of Brittany, Count Ridoredh of Vannes. He succeeded his brother Pasquitan, Duke of Brittany, Pascweten in Vannes when the latter died, probably in the middle of 876, and contended for leadership of Brittany with Judicael, Duke of Brittany, Judicael of Poher. Alan represented the power bloc of southeastern Brittany while Judicael, Duke of Brittany, Judicael represented western Breton interests. Eventually he and Judicael made peace in order to fight the Vikings. Judicael died in the Battle of Questembert in 8 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
