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unusual facts about Guiry-en-Vexin


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Guiry-en-Vexin, a commune in the Val-d'Oise department in Île-de-France in northern France


Counts and dukes of Valois

It was, along with the counties of Beauvais, the Vexin, Vermandois, and Laon, part of the "Oise line" of fiefdom which were held often by one individual or by an individual family as a string of defences against Viking assault on Paris.

Joan II of Navarre

Later on she exchanged Angoulême for three estates in Vexin:- Pontoise, Beaumont-sur-Oise, and Asnière-sur-Oise.

Millet Lagarde ML-10

Only the prototype F-WEPK was completed and by 1957 it was in storage at Pontoise/Cormeilles-en-Vexin airfield to the west of Paris.

Nicolas de Neufville, seigneur de Villeroy

Villeroy died in 1617 and was buried in the church of Magny-en-Vexin.

RAF Stansted Mountfitchet

On 30 September the 344th moved to their Advanced Landing Ground at Cormeilles-en-Vexin, France.

Walter D'Aincourt

His surname is said to have had its origin in the village of Aincourt in Normandy on the River Seine between Mantes and Magny.


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