After the Norman Conquest in 1066, monks from Grestain Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in Normandy, took possession of the land around the village of Wilmington.
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After purchasing the area around modern Sedan, Ardennes from his brother-in-law Louis de Braquemont, in 1424, he expelled the monks of the Benedictine Abbey of Mouzon and began construction on the Château de Sedan.