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11 unusual facts about Evreux


Charles d'Évreux

He married Maria de La Cerda y Lara, the daughter of Fernando de la Cerda, in April 1335 at Poissy.

Dominique Bénard

Bénard was also counseling young people on their learning and vocational choices, in Évreux, France.

Évreux Cathedral

Évreux Cathedral (Cathédrale Notre-Dame d'Évreux) is a Roman Catholic cathedral, and national monument of France, in Évreux, Normandy.

Évreux-Fauville Air Base

At present, the base is home of two French tactical transport squadrons flying mostly Transall C-160 transportation planes.

Jacques Duphly

As a boy, he studied the harpsichord and organ, and was employed as organist at the cathedral in Évreux.

Jacques-Nompar II de Caumont, duc de La Force

He died 19 April 1699 at Château de la Boulaye, near Évreux in Normandy.

Jean-Baptiste Eugène Bellier de la Chavignerie

Jean-Baptiste Eugène Bellier de la Chavignerie (28 January, 1844, Chartres-25 September 1888, Évreux) was a French entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.

Judith d'Évreux

Judith bore Roger a daughter, who married Hugh of Jarzé ( 1076).

Jules de Clérambault

Jules de Clérambault (ca. 1660 – August 17, 1714) was a French ecclesiastic and Abbot of Saint-Taurin d’Évreux.

Opération 14 juillet

On 8 July Pierre-Henri Guignard and an 11-person team of Direction Générale de la Securité Exterieure (DGSE) personnel boarded a C-130 Hercules transport in Évreux for the Brazilian city Manaus, landing the next day.

Puy d'Arras

Other puys under her patronage were founded at Amiens, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Caen, Évreux, and Rouen.


Amaury de Montfort

Amaury III of Montfort (died 1137), seigneur de Montfort and comte d'Évreux

Blanche of France

Blanche of France (1328–1382), daughter of Charles IV of France and Jeanne d'Évreux; wife of Philip of Valois, Duke of Orléans

Canton of Évreux-Ouest

The canton of Évreux-Ouest includes a part of Évreux and the communes of: Arnières-sur-Iton, Aulnay-sur-Iton, Caugé, Claville and Saint-Sébastien-de-Morsent (pop: 18,123)

Charles d'Orléans

Prince Charles Philippe, Duke of Anjou, Duke of Anjou (b. 1973) son of Prince Michel, Count of Evreux

Château de Beaumesnil

The château, which is an official historical monument of France, is located on a 60 hectare estate to the north-east of the village of Beaumesnil, 140 km west of Paris and midway between the towns of Lisieux and Évreux.

Colmar – Meyenheim Air Base

The air base hosts a meteorological station maintained by Météo-France; the station is the sixth driest in France (after MarignaneMarseille Provence Airport, Perpignan, Clermont-Ferrand, Chartres and Évreux) of the French meterorological service network.

Hawise of Chester, 1st Countess of Lincoln

Hawise was born in 1180 in Chester, Cheshire, England, the youngest child of Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester and Bertrade de Montfort of Évreux, a cousin of King Henry II of England.

House of La Tour d'Auvergne

The Hôtel d'Évreux was subsequently renamed the Élysée Palace and currently serves as the official residence of the President of France.

Isabelle de Meulan

Her paternal grandparents were Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester and Elisabeth de Vermandois, and her maternal grandparents were Amaury III de Montfort, Count of Evreux, and Agnès de Garlande, daughter of Anseau de Garlande, Count of Rochefort, and Beatrice de Montlhery.

Joan I, Countess of Auvergne

Joan I of Auvergne (8 May 1326 – 29 September 1360, Chateau d'Argilly) was the daughter of William XII, Count of Auvergne and Boulogne, by his wife Marguerite d'Évreux (the sister of Philip III of Navarre).

Joan of Valois, Queen of Navarre

Joan of France, also known as Joan or Joanna of Valois (June 24, 1343, Châteauneuf-sur-Loire – November 3, 1373, Évreux), was the daughter of John II of France (called The Good), and his first wife, Bonne of Luxembourg.

Louis Marie Turreau

Louis Marie Turreau (4 July 1756, Évreux, Eure – 10 December 1816, Conches), also known as Turreau de Garambouville or Turreau de Linières, was a French general officer of the French Revolutionary Wars.

Louis, Count of Évreux

#Charles (1305–1336), Count of Étampes married Maria de la Cerda, Lady of Lunel, daughter of Fernando de la Cerda.

Marie d'Alençon

She married firstly in 1411, Peter d' Évreux, Infante of Navarre, Count of Mortain, and secondly on 1 October 1413, Louis VII, Duke of BavariaIngolstadt.

Maud of Gloucester, Countess of Chester

Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester (1147- 30 June 1181), married Bertrade de Montfort of Évreux, by whom he had five children, including Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester, Maud of Chester, and Hawise of Chester, 1st Countess of Lincoln.

Pierre II, Count of Alençon

# Catherine (1380, Verneuil – 25 June 1462, Paris), married 1411 in Alençon Peter d'Évreux, Infante of Navarre and Count of Mortain (1366–1412), married 1 October 1413 in Paris Louis VII, Duke of Bavaria-Ingolstadt (1365–1447)

Princess Blanche

Blanche of France, Duchess of Orléans (1328–1382), daughter of Charles IV of France and Jeanne d'Évreux; wife of Philip of Valois, Duke of Orléans

Raoul I of Brienne, Count of Eu

# Jeanne (d. 1389, Sens), Lady of Château-Chinon, married first in 1342/3 Walter VI of Brienne, married second in 1357 Louis II d'Évreux, Count of Étampes (1336–1400)

Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter

In 1418 he went back to Normandy with a large force, taking part in the sieges of Evreux, Ivry, and Rouen.

William XII, Count of Auvergne

He married Margaret of Évreux (1307-1350), daughter of Louis, Count of Évreux and Margaret of Artois.