Tréguier

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Tréguier
Coat of arms of Tréguier
Tréguier (France)
Tréguier
region Brittany
Department Cotes-d'Armor
Arrondissement Lannion
Canton Tréguier (main town)
Community association Lannion-Trégor Communauté
Coordinates 48 ° 47 ′  N , 3 ° 14 ′  W 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
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
Residents 2885 3059 3257 3130 2799 2679 2668 2437
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

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