Marbeuf
Marbeuf is a common French, located in the department of the the Eure and the area High-Normandy.
Geography
History
Its typically Norman name wants to say in language Scandinavian (the Norois), the village (beuf) of the horse (mar).
The beuf term is found fréquenment in the names of agglomeation Norman. The mar term gave the word marshal in French.
The village of Marbeuf was under 3 different authorities, testimony surely of a certain richness.
One thus finds in Marbeuf an old presbytery (depend on évêché), a priory (attached to large the Abbaye Notre-Dame of the Nozzle, and a castle for the noble one of the village (attached to the powerful family of the duke of Harcourt).
The church Saint Christophe, whose frontage was remade at the beginning of the XXeme century, has very beautiful Renaissance frescos telling the life of St Christophe.
These frescos were redécouvertes at the time of the mass of Christmas 1975 when traces of painting levelled under the plaster.
Unfortunately, half of the frescos were lost at the time of the restoration of with dimensions north of the nave.
One also finds in this church, the lying one of Guy d' Achey, noble of the village, soldier of Henri IV, wounded at the time of a seat and died a few years afterwards.
Administration
Demography
Places and monuments
Personalities related to the commune
- Charles Louis de Marbeuf (1712 - 1786), count de Marbeuf, marquis of Cargèse, governor of the Corsica .
See too
- Common of the Eure
External bonds
- Marbeuf on the site of the national geographical Institute
- Marbeuf on the site of INSEE
- Marbeuf on the site of Quid
- Localization of Marbeuf on a chart of France and communes bordering
- Plane on Marbeuf on Mapquest