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Château de Montreuil-Bellay

The Château de Montreuil-Bellay is a historical building in the town of Montreuil-Bellay, département of Maine-et-Loire, France, first built on the site of a Gallo-Roman village high on a hill on the banks of the Thouet River.


Giraud II of Montreuil-Berlay

Giraud II of Montreuil-Berlay (died c. 1155) was a twelfth-century feudal lord of Montreuil-Bellay, near Saumur in France.

Guillaume du Bellay

Guillaume du Bellay, seigneur de Langey (1491, Glatigny - 9 January 1543, Saint-Symphorien-de-Lay), from a notable Angevin family was a French diplomat and general under King Francis I.

Guillaume IV de Melun

Guillaume IV de Melun, Count of Tancarville, Lord of Montreuil-Bellay, was a French politician, chamberlain and advisor to King Charles VI of France.

Jean du Bellay

Jean du Bellay (c. 1493 – 16 February 1560) was a French cardinal and diplomat, younger brother of Guillaume du Bellay, and bishop of Bayonne in 1526, member of the privy council in 1530, and bishop of Paris in 1532.

Joachim du Bellay

Joachim Du Bellay was born at the Castle of La Turmelière, not far from Liré, near Angers, being the son of Jean du Bellay, Lord of Gonnor, first cousin of the cardinal Jean du Bellay and of Guillaume du Bellay.

Place Joachim-du-Bellay

Place Joachim-du-Bellay is square near the center of Paris, France, in the 1st arrondissement, near Les Halles and the Pompidou Center.

Renaud du Bellay

Renaud du Bellay was the treasurer of Tours cathedral, and Archbishop of Reims from 1083 to 1096 AD.

Sé O'Hanlon

In 1966 O'Hanlon rode against a French team which included Jean Bellay, who rode the 1954 Tour de France Bellay finished second to O'Hanlon.


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