Bauptois

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The Bauptois (pronounced: botoa) is a landscape in the Norman Cotentin . The villages of the Bauptois all belong to the Manche department . The former main town of the Bauptois is named after Baupte , today it is Carentan .

The Bauptois is a swampy landscape that can be submerged in winter and is drained by the Douve River. In addition, the forest of Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte is noteworthy.

The Bauptois was one of four archdeaconates of the diocese of Coutances in the Middle Ages (the other three are: La Hague , Val de Saire and Valognes ). The archdeacon des Bauptois was under ecclesiastical jurisdiction for the islands of Jersey and Guernsey until the 15th century .

Saint Adelheid, Adela of France († 1079), daughter of King Robert the Pious and wife of Duke Richard III. of Normandy , carried the title of "Countess of Contenance", and thus a county that is not identifiable. David C. Douglas writes about this in “William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy”: “… at the beginning of the second quarter of the 11th century, Duke Richard III, the conqueror's uncle, gave his wife Adela all the pagi of Saire , La Hague and Bauptois in the far north of the Cotentin ”.

Coordinates: 49 ° 18 ′ 21.9 ″  N , 1 ° 21 ′ 29 ″  W.