The church has Imperial mausoleum which has the remains of Former Emperor D. Pedro II, Empress Teresa Cristina, Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil and Prince Gaston, Count of Eu, in addition to the tombs of Pedro de Alcântara, Prince of Grão-Pará and his wife Countess Elisabeth Dobržensky de Dobrženicz, were brought here in 1939.
The Norman architecture base to the current church, funded jointly by local landowners Edward of Salisbury of Lacock and William II, Count of Eu of Lackham, may have been built on the site of a previously established Saxon church.
Count | Count Basie | count | Count Dracula | The Count of Monte Cristo | Imperial Count | Count of Flanders | Count of Barcelona | Count Basie Orchestra | Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares | Count of Soissons | You Can Count on Me | Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas | Count Palatine | Count palatine | Count of Paris | John II, Count of Rietberg | Count of Nevers | count of Blois | William I, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg | Simon VI, Count of Lippe | Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona | Ramon Berenguer I, Count of Barcelona | Prince Gaston, Count of Eu | Peter II, Count of Savoy | Juan Vicente de Güemes, 2nd Count of Revillagigedo | Gustav Horn, Count of Pori | Gilbert, Count of Gravina | Gebhard, Count of the Lahngau | count palatine |
The Count of Eu held the castle for most of the Norman period, but King John ordered that the castle be destroyed to prevent it falling into the hands of the Dauphin Louis.
Stephen welcomed Ranulf’s support but some of the king's supporters, (especially William de Clerfeith, Gilbert de Gant, Alan, 1st Earl of Richmond, William Peverel the Younger, William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel and John, Count of Eu), did not.
Gilbert, Count of Brionne, who succeeded his father as Count of Eu & Brionne.