Champtoceaux
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| local community | Orée d'Anjou | |
| region | Pays de la Loire | |
| Department | Maine-et-Loire | |
| Arrondissement | Cholet | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 20 ′ N , 1 ° 16 ′ W | |
| Post Code | 49270 | |
| Former INSEE code | 49069 | |
| Incorporation | December 15, 2015 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
Champtoceaux is a small town and a commune Déléguée in the French community Orée d'Anjou with 2,504 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Maine-et-Loire in the region of Pays de la Loire .
geography
The place is located on the south bank of the Loire west of Tours , about 50 kilometers downriver from Angers and about 30 kilometers upriver from Nantes .
history
Champtoceaux, formerly Châteauceaux, was one of the most important fortresses in France in the Middle Ages, especially the Anjou opposite Brittany . In Carolingian times it belonged to the Breton Mark . A rock spur that rises 70 meters above the river was the underground of the fortress.
Gregory of Tours calls Champtoceaux ( Latin "Castrum Sellense") one of the 25 most important fortresses of the Gauls . The associated port, "Portus selus", secured supplies. Around 560 a Duke Austrapius was ordained bishop in Châteauceaux, which then briefly became the seat of a subdiocese of the Diocese of Poitiers . In the 8th century, Pippin the Little received the ambassadors of the Caliph of Baghdad here .
Until 942 Châteauceaux belonged to the Poitou and then changed into the possession of Alain II. Barbetorte , Duke of Brittany . After his death, his widow married the Count of Anjou, whereby Châteauceaux changed hands again. In 988 , Count Fulko Nerra of Anjou ordered the construction of a fortress from which the road toll was also collected.
The castle has been besieged several times over the years:
- 1141 by Gottfried Plantagenet , Count of Anjou,
- 1173 by Heinrich Plantagenet , King of England ,
- 1224 by Peter Mauclerc , Duke of Brittany .
- 1230 and 1234 by King Ludwig IX. ;
- 1341 by the Duke of Normandy , later King John II ;
In 1420 the castle was finally destroyed. During the War of the Breton Succession , Duke Johann V was imprisoned in Châmptoceaux. After its liberation by the English, he ordered the castle to be destroyed. After that, Champtoceaux no longer played a political role.
With effect from December 15, 2015, the municipalities of Bouzillé , Champtoceaux , Drain , Landemont , Liré , Saint-Christophe-la-Couperie , Saint-Laurent-des-Autels , Saint-Sauveur-de-Landemont and La Varenne were removed from the former Communauté de communes du Canton de Champtoceaux amalgamated into a Commune nouvelle with the name Orée d'Anjou. The municipality of Champtoceaux belonged to the arrondissement of Cholet and the canton of La Pommeraye (until 2015: canton of Champtoceaux ).
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| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2009 | |
| Residents | 1100 | 1169 | 1252 | 1384 | 1524 | 1748 | 2342 | |
Personalities
- Johann III. , Duke of Brittany, was born here in 1286
- Hippolyte Maindron , sculptor, was born here in 1801.
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de Maine-et-Loire . Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-117-1 , pp. 389-397.
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert Favreau: Histoire du Poitou et des Pays charentais, page 126
