Mount-Saint-Aignan

Mount-Saint-Aignan is a common French, located in the department of the Seine-Maritime and the area High-Normandy.

Near to Rouen, it includes/understands the largest part of the university pole of the urban community.

Geography

Chief town of canton, the commune is located on a hill in overhang and is joined with Rouen. Déville-the-Rouen is the other commune of the canton.

History

Commune formed at the 19th century by the fusion of the two old parishes of Saint-Aignan ( Sanctum Anianum quoted at the 12th century) and of the Mount-with-Patients ( Monte Infirmorum towards 1251 which draws its name from a founded hospital at the 12th century). A Léproserie was founded towards 1119 pennies the guard of a priory of regular canons, by nineteen parishes of Rouen on the Saint-Jacob mount. It took the name of Mount-of-Leprous or Mount-of-Patients. The priory, fallen in commende in 1518, was devastated by the Protestants in 1562 and its destroyed files. Henri II associated in 1176 there a church dedicated to Saint Thomas of Canterbury from which he hoped for expier thus the murder. This priory became parish church in 1790 and was used for the Révolution with the meetings of the “popular and republican Company of Mount-Free”.

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