Melleville

Melleville
region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Dieppe
Canton	Eu
Community association	Villes Sœurs
Coordinates	49 ° 46 '  N , 1 ° 38'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 46 '  N , 1 ° 38'  E
height	153-227 m
surface	5.65 km 2
Residents	264 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	47 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	76260
INSEE code	76422
Mairie of Melleville

Melville is a French municipality with 264 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Seine-Maritime in the region Normandy . It belongs to the Arrondissement Dieppe , the canton Eu and is part of the municipal association Villes Sœurs . Agnès Join has been mayor since March 2008.

geography

Melleville is a farming village in the Pays de Bray natural area . It is 32 kilometers east of Dieppe .

Neighboring communities

Le Mesnil-Réaume	Monchy-sur-Eu	Millebosc
Cuverville-sur-Yères		Guerville
Sept-Meules	Villy-sur-Yères	Grandcourt

etymology

The first mention of Melleville comes from medieval manuscripts and appears in 1107 in the forms Merlevilla and Mellevilla , at the beginning of the 12th century as Merulevilla and later as Merula Villa .

The name ends in "-ville", which is a "rural area" (from Gallo-Roman ), the first part of the word is an anthroponym , as it is most common with this type of name. In this case it is Merulus or Merlus , quoted by Marie-Thérèse Morlet , based on the merle . In addition, Merolus was Bishop of Le Mans in the eighth century . The same name can be found in Melleville ( Département Eure , Merleville , 1254) or Marlemont ( Département Ardennes , Merlemont , 1248).

A variant with its ending -o (influence of Germanic names) Merlo / Merlinus , like Mélamare ( Melonmare , 1337), can be found in the family names Merlin , Meslin and Mellin .

history

The names of the Lords of Melleville have been known since the beginning of the twelfth century. The Norman knight Galfridus de Melville went with William the Conqueror to the British Isles in the 11th century , his descendants settled in the Scottish Midlothian in the 12th century under King David I and founded the Scottish clan Melville . George Melville, 3rd Baron Melville, was born in 1690 by William III. elevated to 1st Earl of Melville. The Scottish family later became extinct.

One of the lords of Mellville, Nicolas de Saint-Ouen, was mayor of Eu from 1482 to 1487 . In the church there, a high relief adorns the chapel that he owned there

In the 17th century Melleville consisted of two fiefdoms: the fiefdom or lordship of Melleville and the stronghold of Caudecotte (from Anglo-Saxon - Old Norse Kaldkot , which means "cold dwelling"). At the same time, the windmill disappeared , forcing residents to grind their grain in neighboring villages. It will be rebuilt before disappearing again around 1727.

Population development

The population is known from censuses since 1793. The population up to 2005 is published on the website of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales .

year	Population
1962	324
1968	280
1975	277
1982	274
1990	281
1999	294
2006	287
2015	272

Attractions

The Saint-Martin church dates from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. The church and cemetery are isolated on the edge of the road that leads to Villy. They were built on a rectangular floor plan in the 16th and 17th centuries. It owes its current form of the Latin cross to the addition of two chapels. The north-facing church, dedicated to Mary, mother of Jesus , was built by the Boissel family around 1678. It is made of bricks mixed with rubble. The Saint Joseph chapel in the south dates from 1873. The nave was built of limestone in the 17th century .

Since the French Revolution , only two of the original three church bells have survived. One bears the year 1526 and was named after Abbot von Tréport . The memorial inscription of a foundation (1548) can be found above in the choir . Under the pavement of the sanctuary there is a vault in which the pastors are buried. The altarpiece in the style of Louis XIV dates from 1749. It shows a painting by Deshayes depicting the Virgin holding the holy rosary in her hand. There's a castle in Melville .

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  Saint Martin Church

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  Multipurpose hall

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  War memorial (First World War)

Web links

Commons : Melleville  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Melleville. Le nombre d'habitants. In: cassini.ehess.fr. École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales , p. 2 , accessed on July 15, 2018 (French).  
2. ↑ Populations légales 2006. Commune de Melleville (76422). In: insee.fr. Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, p. 2 , accessed on July 15, 2018 (French).  
3. ↑ Populations légales 2015. Commune de Melleville (76422). In: insee.fr. Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, p. 2 , accessed on July 15, 2018 (French).