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2 unusual facts about Longueville, Calvados


Newton Longville

The affix "Longville" was added in the 13th century after the Cluniac priory of Longueville, Calvados, in Normandy, France, that held the manor of Newton at that time, and to distinguish this village from other places called Newton, particularly nearby Newton Blossomville.

Newton Longville Priory

The priory of Newton Longville was founded by Walter Giffard as a cell to St. Faith's at Longueville near Rouen.


Agglomeration community of Caen la Mer

In this context, the community is associated with the General Council of Calvados in a joint union called Viacités, the transport organizing authority of the agglomeration, to whom it delegates its public transport network - the bus and tram network Twisto.

Anne Louise Boyvin d'Hardancourt Brillon de Jouy

Anne Louise Brillon de Jouy (née Boyvin d'Hardancourt, 13 December 1744 Paris – 5 December 1824 Villers-sur-Mer, Calvados) was a French musician and composer.

Banville

Banville, Calvados, a commune in the Calvados department in the Basse-Normandie region in north-western France

Beurre d'Isigny

Beurre d'Isigny is a type of cow's milk butter made in the Veys Bay area and the valleys of the rivers running into it, comprising several French communes surrounding Isigny-sur-Mer and straddling the Manche and Calvados departments of northern France.

Bikala

Bikala was retired from racing to become a breeding stallion at the Haras du Val Henry near Tortisambert, Calvados.

Boscobel House

Also, the many branches of the Giffard family all claim ancestry from the lords of Bolbec or Bolebec and Longueville in Upper Normandy: Osbern de Bolebec became lord of Longueville in the early 11th century and his sons, Osbern Giffard and Gautier or Walter Giffard of Bolbec, were companions of William the Conqueror.

Buddleja dysophylla

dysophylla is only known to be in cultivation in Australia, at Longueville, and at the Brisbane City Botanic Gardens, where it flowers in August.

Bus Verts du Calvados

Bus Verts du Calvados is a network of interurban buses in the département of Calvados, France.

Calvados

The Conseil General of Calvados and Devon County Council signed a Twinning Charter in 1971 to develop links with the English county of Devon.

Its etymology is most likely derived from the Salvador, a ship from the Spanish Armada that sank by the rocks near Arromanches-les-bains in 1588.

The Bayeux Tapestry is on display in Bayeux and makes the city one of the most-visited tourist destinations in Normandy.

Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes

Charles d'Albert, Duke of Luynes (5 August 1578 – Longueville, 15 December 1621), was a favourite of Louis XIII who was made a Peer of France and Constable of France before dying at the height of his influence.

Château de Creully

The Château de Creully is an 11th- and 12th-century castle located in the town of Creully in the Calvados département of France.

Chateau de Guernon-Ranville

The château de Guernon-Ranville is located in Le Bas de Ranville in the village of Ranville, in the Calvados region Calvados of Lower Normandy in France.

County of Longueville

On the death of Isabelle de Clare, his son William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke gave his brother Richard his land in Normandy or the honours of Longueville and Orbec.

Ellen Whitaker

Royal Rose (*1998), Dutch Warmblood, Stallion, Father: Calvados, Owner: Steven Whitaker

Equimax Ocolado (* 1996), Dutch Warmblood, Gelding, Father: Habsburg, Mother's Father: Calvados, Owners: Dawn Makin & Steven Whitaker

État 42-001 to 42-020

One locomotive has been preserved: 42-019, later SNCF 3-141.TC.19 (Fives-Lille 4328 of 1923) is preserved by AJECTA at the Musée vivant du chemin de fer in Longueville, Seine-et-Marne, and has been designated a Monument historique.

George de Lawedre of Haltoun

Like his father, who had been Constable of Tantallon Castle, he was a Douglas adherent, and with others, is a witness to a charter of reconfirmation by Archibald Douglas Earl of Wigtoun & Longueville of a previous charter by Archibald Douglas, 3rd Earl of Douglas to the monastery of Melrose of the Regality of Eskdalemuir, on 16 January 1418.

Haras d'Ouilly

The Haras d'Ouilly is a renowned horse breeding farm in Pont-d'Ouilly, Calvados in the Basse-Normandie region of France established in the 19th century.

Haras de Saint Pair du Mont

Haras de Saint Pair du Mont is a Thoroughbred horse breeding farm at Le Cadran near Cambremer in Calvados, Normandy.

Henri de Régnier

He was born at Honfleur (Calvados) on the 28th of December 1864, and was educated in Paris for law.

Henri I d'Orléans, duc de Longueville

Longueville died of wounds received by a musket salvo, celebrating his entry in Dourlers.

Henri II d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville

After the Peace of Rueil (11 March 1649) had ended the first phase of the civil war, Mazarin's sudden arrest of the Grand Condé, his brother the prince de Conti and their brother-in-law the duc de Longueville, on January 14, 1650 precipitated the next phase of the Fronde, the Fronde des nobles.

Henri-Benjamin Rainville

Born in Sainte-Marie-de-Monnoir, Quebec, the son of Felix Rainville, a farmer of French descent from Touques (Calvados), and Marie Daignault, Rainville obtained his elementary and classical education at the colleges of St. Hyacinthe and Ste.

Honfleur, Quebec

The name comes from the archbishop of Quebec, cardinal Louis-Nazaire Bégin, (1840-1925) whose ancestor came from Saint-Léonard-de-Honfleur, archdiocise of Lisieux, also situated in Calvados.

Jean d'Orléans-Longueville

Jean d’Orléans-Longueville was born in Parthenay in 1484, the third son of François I d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville and Agnes of Savoy.

Jean-Pierre Jaussaud

Jean-Pierre Jaussaud (born June 3, 1937 in Caen, Calvados) is a French former racing driver, more famous for winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1978 and 1980.

La Bluette

The house is located in Hermanville-sur-Mer, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, a seaside hamlet of 2,661 (at the 1999 census) in north-western France.

Longueville-sur-Scie

The village was formerly known as Longueville-le-Giffard, one of its sons was Osbern Giffard, who gave his name to Stoke Gifford, South Gloucestershire, England.

Louis N. Parker

He was born in Calvados, France, the son of the American Charles Albert Parker, who was a grandson of American congressman and judge Isaac Parker, and the Englishwoman Elizabeth Moray.

Louis-Karim Nébati

Louis-Karim Nébati (born August 25, 1971) is a French actor, born in Bénouville (Calvados).

Philippe Duron

Philippe Duron has also been the mayor of Louvigny (Calvados), and was elected mayor of Caen on 16 March 2008.

Repentigny

Repentigny, Calvados, a commune of the département of Calvados, in France

Robert Fitzhamon

Robert Fitzhamon (died March 1107), or Robert FitzHamon, Sieur de Creully in the Calvados region and Torigny in the Manche region of Normandy, was Lord of Gloucester and the Norman conqueror of Glamorgan, southern Wales.

Saint-Pierre-du-Mont Airfield

Saint-Pierre-du-Mont Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield which is located in the Calvados department in the Basse-Normandie region in northern France.

Sidney Bates

Sidney Bates grave can be found in the Bayeux Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, Calvados, France.

Villers-Bocage

Villers-Bocage, Calvados, in the Calvados département, and the site of the Battle of Villers-Bocage

William de Falaise

William de Falaise (11th century), also called William of Falaise, was a Norman from Falaise, Normandy, today in the Calvados department in the Lower Normandy region of north-western France.

William of St. Barbara

From William's name, it is presumed that he was a native of Sainte-Barbe-en-Auge in Calvados in Normandy.


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