Saint-Pierre-of-Cormeilles is a common French, located in the department of the the Eure and the area High-Normandy. Its inhabitants name Saint-Corpierais.

Geography

The commune is crossed by the Calonne.

The commune surrounds with the 3/4 its chief towns of canton (Cormeilles).

The commune is at the end is Pays of Trough.

Localities

• Bréards

• the Ditch
• the Fountains
• the Thickets
• Cléranville
• Cavicourt
• the Canton
• the Fairground
• the Ash plantation
• Limes it
• Catterie
• Hêtrots
• Mont Blanc
• Tormellier
• the Valley with the Hare
• the Valley Hébert
• Quesnerie
• the Valley Vata
• the Meadows Cateaux
• Malou
• the Fields Bars
• the Coast in Juliens
• the Mole
• the Place of Love
• the Brickyard
• Câtelets
• Boulay
• Mousseaux
• Bourgai

Agriculture

Saint-Pierre-of-Cormeilles is a commune very agriciole. Among the cultures, one finds corn, beet, colza, corn… but also of many fields of apple trees feeding the distellery of Cormeilles (one of oldest of Normandy, created in 1910). The pastures also occupy an important place, one there high of porcine, bovines, sheep.

History

The origin of the name of the commune comes from Beati $petri de Cormeliis (1171). Saint-Pierre-of-Cormeilles is crossed by an old Roman way which joined Lisieux. This way passes in particular by the locality Limes it which sheltered the Vault St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, being used as leper-house.

The history of the commune really begins in 1055 when Guillaume FitzOsbern founds the Notre-Dame Abbey occupied until the French revolution by monks Benedictines. The majority of this building were destroyed in 1778, only remain the manor of the abbey, the enclosing walls and the dovecote. However a counterpart of this abbey is in England in the small village of Shirehampton.

The castle of Malou, whose presence in the form of fortress is already notified on the current grounds of Saint-Pierre-of-Cormeilles to the XIe century, was destroyed in 1374 during the Guerre One hundred Year old by English, the lord being remained faithful to king de France. The king Charles VI authorized his rebuilding in 1385. At the end of the XVIe century, the lord Jean Feret will acquerra the castle and made it rebuild. Its drawbridge was destroyed not very front 1789. Its current aspect definitively is acquired at the time of its restoration by the architect Henri Jacquelin at the beginning of the XXe century.

Formerly attached to the commune of Cormeilles, the parish of Saint-Pierre-of-Cormeilles (just like that of Saint-Sylvestre-of-Cormeilles) became a commune with whole share after the French revolution

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

• Castle of Malou.
• Manor of the Valley Hébert of the 17th century.
• Manor of the Abbey of the monks - Notre-Dame Abbey of the 11th century.
• the Mill of Bréards.
• the church Saint-Pierre of the 12th century and 19th century.

Personalities related to the commune

• Danny Servant boy, singer of rock'n'roll, born in the commune in 1936.
• Michel Vastel, journalist-chronicler and writer, born in the commune the May 20th 1940.

See too

• Common of the Eure

External bonds

• Saint-Pierre-of-Cormeilles (the Eure) on the site of the national geographical Institute
• Saint-Pierre-of-Cormeilles (the Eure) on the site of INSEE
• Saint-Pierre-of-Cormeilles (the Eure) on the site of Quid
• Localization of Saint-Pierre-of-Cormeilles (the Eure) on a chart of France and communes bordering
• Plane on Saint-Pierre-of-Cormeilles (the Eure) on Mapquest

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