Tréguier
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region | Brittany | |
Department | Cotes-d'Armor | |
Arrondissement | Lannion | |
Canton | Tréguier (main town) | |
Community association | Lannion-Trégor Communauté | |
Coordinates | 48 ° 47 ′ N , 3 ° 14 ′ W | |
height | 0-66 m | |
surface | 1.52 km 2 | |
Residents | 2,419 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 1,591 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 22220 | |
INSEE code | 22362 | |
Website | http://www.ville-treguier.fr | |
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Tréguier ( Breton Landreger ) is a commune with 2,419 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in Côtes-d'Armor in the region of Brittany ; it belongs to the arrondissement of Lannion and the canton of Tréguier . Tréguier is the historic capital of the Trégor . The place is on the estuary of the river Jaudy , at the confluence of its tributary Guindy .
history
"Val Trécor" was first mentioned in 535 with the Gallic monk Tugdual von Tréguier , who founded a monastery here. Since then, Tréguier has become an obligatory stage of Tro-Breizh , the pilgrimage to seven Breton founder saints.
Tugdual was ordained bishop of Tréguier around 542 . It seems that an important settlement soon developed around his monastery. In 848 Nominoë , Prince of Brittany, made the monastery diocese into a regular diocese. A little later, Tréguier was destroyed by the Normans and given up by the population.
In 970 Gratien built a new cathedral, which he dedicated to Tugdual. A tower remained of this structure, the Tour Hasting, the name of the leader of the Normans who destroyed Tréguier a century earlier. The Cité was called Saint Pabu from the 11th to the 13th centuries. The current cathedral was built from 1339 and was dedicated to Ivo Hélory as a patron saint, the patron saint of lawyers who died in 1303 and comes from Minihy-Tréguier.
In 1412 Tréguier received city rights. From 1450 to 1479, a Gothic monastery was built around the cathedral , in which Duke Johann V and Ivo Hélory, among others , were buried.
During the French Revolution , the Diocese of Tréguier was dissolved. The cathedral was rededicated as a horse stable. After losing his diocesan status, Tréguier went downhill. Before the revolution, the city had more inhabitants than Saint-Brieuc , which is now 18 times larger.
Population development
year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2016 |
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Residents | 2885 | 3059 | 3257 | 3130 | 2799 | 2679 | 2668 | 2437 |
Sources: Cassini and INSEE |
Attractions
- Ernest Renan's birth house
- Saint-Tugdual Cathedral
- Cloister of the Cathedral (1468)
- Ernest-Renan Museum
Hôtel de ville (town hall)
Personalities
- Anatole Le Braz (1859-1926), writer
- Paul Le Flem (1881–1984), composer
- Ernest Hello (1828–1885), writer and critic
- Ivo Hélory (1253–1303), lawyer and priest, canonized on May 9, 1347 (Saint Yves)
- Ernest Renan (1823-1892), writer and philologist
- Henri Pollès (1909–1994), writer
- Paul Ralon , poet
- Charles Lindbergh (1902–1974) owned a house in Tréguier.
See also
literature
- Michel Chauou: Une cité médiévale: Lantriguier au XVe , mémoire de maîtrise de 1969, ( Archives départementales d'Ille-et-Vilaine - Mémoire 2 J 8 )
- Le Patrimoine des Communes des Côtes-d'Armor. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-017-5 , pp. 1290-1302.