Saint-Éloi-de-Fourques

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Saint-Éloi-de-Fourques
Saint-Éloi-de-Fourques (France)
Saint-Éloi-de-Fourques
region Normandy
Department Your
Arrondissement Bernay
Canton Brionne
Community association Intercom Bernay Terres de Normandie
Coordinates 49 ° 14 '  N , 0 ° 48'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 14 '  N , 0 ° 48'  E
height 115-159 m
surface 7.23 km 2
Residents 522 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 72 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 27800
INSEE code 27536
Website www.saint-eloi-de-fourques.net

Tithe barn

Saint-Eloi-de-Fourques is a French municipality with 522 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the Eure in the region of Normandy .

geography

Saint-Éloi-de-Fourques is located in the Roumois , 16 kilometers southwest of Elbeuf and 8.6 kilometers northeast of Brionne , between the hamlet of Saint-Taurin-des-Ifs, which belongs to Bosrobert and lies to the west, Saint-Paul-de -Fourques to the south and Le Bosc du Theil to the east on the E402 . The hamlets and lieux-dits (place that bears the name ...) Bosc-Yves, Le Mouchel, La Maison Rouge, Danèterie, La Cambe, La Devinerie, La Sente-aux-Prêtres, Le Moulin-de-Serville, La Roussière, Les Bouquets and La Noë belong to the municipality.

history

Originally, Fourques was a large town that was divided into two places, Saint-Éloi-de-Fourques and Saint-Paul-de-Fourques. Ordericus Vitalis (1075–1142) mentioned the capital Fourques as Furcas in his Historia Ecclesiastica , then later Furcis around 1240, Sanctus Eligius de Furcis 1318. Furcis is the Latinization (plural) of the old Norman word forque, furque (also forke )> Norman fourque '(Hay) fork' (French fourche ) in the meaning of a street crossing , a way of the cross. The Saint-Éloi refers to the Bishop Eligius of Noyon in the 7th century.

Establishing the Bec Abbey in the 11th century, the family Croc gave the Abbey everything they had in Fourques. At the beginning of the 13th century, Guillaume de Fourques donated land and money to the Abbey of Le Bec. In 1319 the separation of the districts had already been completed, with Saint-Éloi-de-Fourques being the original town center, and the town was mentioned in the copial book of Le Bec Abbey as Sanctus Éligius de Furcis . The Pope Clement VI. (1291-1352) officially set the Abbey Le Bec in 1348 as the owner of Saint-Éloi-de-Fourques. During the Middle Ages and the Ancien Régime, there were several fiefdoms in what is now the municipality , which were mentioned in the copial book of Le Bec Abbey.

Fourquette's fiefdom was first mentioned in 1253; it belonged to the barony of Bonneville-Aptot in the 16th century . The fiefdom of La Cambe was first mentioned in 1230, where Pierre de la Cambe was born, who was Abbot Le Bec from 1272 until his death on November 2, 1282. Cambe means beer brewery.

The Manoir d'Hermos is located northwest of the town center . Until the 17th century it was called Val-Cabot . It received its original name from Raoul Cabot, who was mentioned in 1209 in the copial book of Le Bec Abbey. In 1241 the fiefdom appears as Caboc in the copial book, in 1261 as des Cabots . In 1535 Robert de Thumary acquired the fief. He had the mansion built; when he died in 1540 it was not yet completed. He left no descendants and his widow Isabeau sold the fiefdom to Claude de Lorraine, duc de Guise (1496–1550). In 1659 Pierre Cousin (1637–1713) bought Val-Cabot, as a lawyer and secretary to Philippe I. de Bourbon, duc d'Orléans , he rose to society. In 1676 he was ennobled and in 1676 he had a chapel built on Val-Cabot, which was dedicated to Saint-Pierre and Saint-Paul . He restructured his lands, converted them into smaller parcels and renamed the manor Hermos . In 1680 he inherited Marais-Vernier from his father-in-law and moved there. His heiress Nicole married Nicolas de Grouchy the Seigneur of Sainte-Opportune-la-Mare . Her son wasted his possessions and had to sell Hermos. His brother-in-law Louis Planterose bought the property in 1754 for 56,000 livres . Planterose was ennobled in the same year. He lived in Hermos and his children were born there. In 1785, however, Hermos was sold to Robert de la Houssaye. In 1793, as a result of the French Revolution, he had to watch how the Hermos archives were burned by revolutionaries on the tree of freedom . In 1794 his possessions were confiscated, but he managed to keep Hermos, where he died in 1810. His son died in 1846 and bequeathed the property to his niece Eulalie Pillon, whose husband had the outbuildings torn down and the main building "simplified". In 1895 Pierre Windsor, an industrialist from Rouen , bought the property. It is still owned by his family today.

In 1793, during the French Revolution, Saint-Éloi-de-Fourques received the status of a municipality (as Saint Eloi de Fourques) and in 1801 the right to local self-government (as Saint-Eloi-de-Fourques).

Number of inhabitants
(source:)
year 1793 1821 1836 1846 1856 1881 1911 1975 1990 2006 2017
Residents 761 833 705 621 530 412 307 262 360 414 522

Attractions

The Saint-Éloi church

The Saint-Éloi church still contains the remains of a Romanesque building. The choir was built between 1260 and 1280. The Arc triomphal rests on columns whose capitals are adorned with acanthus leaves . The church was enlarged in the 15th and 16th centuries. The ensemble of church, church portal and the large yew tree in the cemetery is classified as a Site Inscrit (natural monument). In the church there is a gisant of Bishop Geoffroy III. de Faé († 1340) from the 14th century. In 1907 it was classified as a Monument historique .

The Manoir de Hermos was founded in 1540 and completed in 1675. It has moderate dimensions. It has a square ground floor and, since the 18th century, a first floor that is integrated in the roof structure. A chapel is located on the first floor above the entrance portal, this chapel was established before the rest of the first floor. Before the "simplifications" in the 19th century, the building had two side wings and a large rectangular courtyard , which was bordered by walls and two outbuildings. It was a stable and a servants' house. There was also a pigeon house . The terrace faced the tree-lined lawn that led to a semicircular pool. Today theatrical performances and other events take place in the manor house.

economy

Important occupations of the Eligiens (residents) are agriculture and feed production. Mainly cereals , sugar beets and flax are grown. In the municipality, there are controlled designations of origin (AOC) for Calvados and Pommeau (Pommeau de Normandie) and Protected Geographical Indications (IGP) for pork (Porc de Normandie) , poultry (Volailles de Normandie) and cider (Cidre de Normandie and Cidre normand) .

Web links

Commons : Saint-Éloi-de-Fourques  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ A b c Daniel Delattre, Emmanuel Delattre: L'Eure, les 675 communes . Editions Delattre, Grandvilliers 2000, pp. 228 (French).
  3. ↑ a b c Auguste Le Prévost , Léopold Delisle , Louis Paulin Passy, ​​Andrew Dickson White: Mémoires et notes de M. Auguste Le Prevost pour servir à l'histoire du département de l'Eure . Ed .: Société d'agriculture des belles-lettres, sciences et arts de L'Eure. tape 3 . Évreux 1869, p. 111 f . (French, from archive.org [accessed January 10, 2010]).
  4. ^ François de Beaurepaire: Les Noms des communes et anciennes paroisses de l'Eure . A. et J. Picard, Paris 1981, ISBN 2-7084-0067-3 , pp. 173-174 (French).
  5. ↑ a b Anatole Caresme Charpillon: Dictionnaire historique de toutes les communes du département de l'Eure: histoire, geographie, statistique . tape 2 . Delcroix, Les Andelys 1879, p. 775-777 (French, from archive.org [accessed January 16, 2010]).
  6. ↑ Historique du Manoir d'Hermos (French) Retrieved December 26, 2009.
  7. ^ A b Franck Beaumont, Philippe Seydoux: Gentilhommières des pays de l'Eure . Editions de la Morande, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-902091-31-2  ( formally incorrect ) , p. 294-296 (French).
  8. ↑ Saint-Éloi-de-Fourques on Cassini.ehess.fr (French) Retrieved December 25, 2009 + INSEE (2006).
  9. ↑ Saint-Éloi-de-Fourques, website of the CdCr Kanton Brionne (French) Retrieved on August 14, 2011.
  10. ↑ Saint-Éloi-de-Fourques in Base Palissy (French). Retrieved December 25, 2009.
  11. ↑ Hervé Rotrou-Langrenay: Brionne et ses environs . Editions Alan Sutton, Joué-lès-Tours 1996, ISBN 2-910444-71-6 , p. 110-112 (French).
  12. ↑ http://www.quid.fr/communes.html?mode=detail&id=16030&req=27&style=fiche Saint-Éloi-de-Fourques on quid.fr (French) Retrieved on December 25, 2009, since March 25 2010 no longer available.