Ancy-the-franc

Ancy-the-Franc is a common French, located in the department of the Yonne and the area Burgundy.

Heraldic

Blasonnement: of mouths with two keys of money passed in saltire.
the weapons of the city are those of the dukes of Clermont-Thunder, first owners of the castle (the armorial bearings can be besides observed on the walls of the castle).

Geography

History

Antoine III of Clermont-Thunder inherited the grounds of Ancy-the-Franc by his mother, Anne de Husson, countess of Thunder. He decided to make there build a castle, under the direction of the Italian architect Sebastiano Serlio, which was completed towards 1550.
In 1683 François Joseph of Clermont-Thunder, ruined, Tonnerre sold, with the castle, with François Michel Tellier de Louvois. The castle returned however to the Clermont-Thunder in 1844 (with Gaspard Louis Aimé of Clermont-Thunder), then belonged to various owners.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Castle of Ancy-the-Franc , one of the first castles Rebirth of France.

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of Yonne
House of Clermont-Thunder
List of the counts de Tonnerre
Ancy, commune of the Canton of Winnowing machine in the the Ancy-the-Free Rhone
, commune of the Canton of Ancy-the-Franc in Yonne
the Ancy-on-Moselle, commune of the Canton of the Ars-on-Moselle in the Moselle

External bonds

Castle of Ancy-the-Franc
Ancy-the-Franc on the site of the national geographical Institute
Ancy-the-Franc on the site of INSEE
Ancy-the-Franc on the site of Quid
Localization of Ancy-the-Franc on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Ancy-the-Franc on Mapquest

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