County of Arques

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The county of Arques was a Norman territory that existed around Arques-la-Bataille Castle in the 11th century .

Count Wilhelm von Talou , illegitimate son of Duke Richard II of Normandy from the House of the Rollonids , built a mighty castle in Arques around 1037 . The county of Talou was named after the county of Arques.

Duke Wilhelm II had to conquer Arques for the first time in 1052 to subjugate his uncle, and again in 1054. Thereafter, the county of Arques was taken into ducal possession. It was from now on administered by vice counts and has since been known as the vice county of Arques .

The vice-county of Arques was written out to history in the 16th century.

A Norman unit of measure that was used in northern France until the French Revolution was the Pot d'Arques (1.829 liters). The name comes from the vice-county of Arques, since the vice-count was in charge of the weights and measures of the whole of Normandy.