Brignancourt

Brignancourt is a common French, located in the department Val-d'Oise and the area Île-de-France.
Its inhabitants is Brignancourtois.

Geography

Brignancourt is located at 23 km in the North-West of Pontoise and at 21 km in the south-east of Gisors, in the perimeter of the Regional natural park of French Vexin. Rural village of the valley of the Viosne, Brignancourt is bordering on:

  • Marine in the east;
  • Tanks in north;
  • Moussy in the west;
  • Santeuil in the south.

Brignancourt is on the layout of the Sentier of great excursion GR. 1.

History

Founded in 775 under the name of Beranecurte , of the Germanic patronym will bera and the Latin cortern (field), its name will change once at the 12th century for Brinencourt , to become Breancourt at the 18th century before taking its current name in 1796.

Field of the Crown at the time franque, Brignancourt became property of the Abbaye of Saint-Denis at the 12th century. Seigniory of Gisors at the 11th century, the Ferry of Aumont at the 16th century, François de Créquy, marquis de Marines, Marshal of France at the 17th century.

Administration

Demography

Graph of the evolution of the population 1794-1999

Culture

The Saint-Pierre-with-Bond-and-Saint-Etienne church of the 12th century has a Nef dated fine from the 11th century. It is one of the oldest Romance churches of the Vexin. The building presents a Roman gate decorated with posts to capital and a tympanum carried out in a single block of stone.

Economy

  • Agriculture

  • Industry: Raclot company of elastomer transformation

See too

Internal bonds

Notes, sources and references

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