Venables

Venables is a common French, located in the department of the the Eure and the area High-Normandy.

Etymology

Several origins were proposed:

VENABELEN: by the word VENN which indicate a mountain and BELEN which designates the god sun of the Celtes
VENATIO: who in Latin indicates an hunting ground.
VENERIS: dedicated temple has Venus.
VENA: who indicates a vein (metal seam, filament of water)
VENABULUM: who indicates a spear of hunter.

At the 13th century the village is called VENABLIS and VENABULA.

Geography

Venables is located at the extreme northern point of the plate of Madrie. The village is built on a view-point whose culminating point is at 124 meters of altitude. The site dominates the meander which form the the Seine.
Hamlets: The Pond under Venables, the Bank, Lormais, the Windmill, the Valley of Ailly, and Fountain the Green one.

History

The origins of the village go certainly back to the Préhistoire by the occupation of the places around 7000 years before JC by wandering tribes. At the time Gallo-Roman, the place made great strides due to the passage of a way connecting Neubourg to south-west and Andelys to the North-East and which was to join the great Roman lane connecting Lutèce (Paris) to Rotomagus (Rouen).

1055 : the stronghold of Venables, which belonged to the bishop of Beauvais, became vacant with dead of Mauger de Venables. The bishop offered the grounds of Venables to his Gilbert nephew whom one says son of the count de Blois and Chartres. This young lord born between 1030 and 1035 will spend time little on his grounds. With the call of Guillaume duke of Normandy he will enlist in 1066 in the ost Norman in company of Guillaume and Hugues of the Pond small lords of the current hamlet. For their good and faithful services and according to the promises of the duke they will be equipped with grounds, in the county of the Cheshire allotted to Hugues d' Avranches. Gilbert there will make stock and become first baron de Kinderton. Hugues whose Guillaume brother dies during the Bataille of Hastings, will be named Hugh off Delamere. The parish gathering the four strongholds of Venables, the Pond, Fountain-the-Green and Bank goes back to this time.
At the 18th century, the vineyard develops and of the cultures out of rib stalls are established on the southern slope of the slopes of the the Seine.
At the 19th century the face of the village was reorganized by the construction of the railway of Paris in Le Havre by a British company .
1851: the construction of the dam between the hamlets of Lormais and of Bank will support the development of the arable lands along the the Seine.

Blazon: Of azure with two money faces.

Administration

Demography

Graph of the evolution of the population 1794-1999

Places and monuments

Feudal Mound probably former to 1042. Unspoilable view on the water level and the meander of the the Seine.
Notre-Dame Church of which the oldest parts go back to the 12th century. The tower square located at the south of the chorus goes back from the 16th century and the porch to 1722.

The cemetery which surrounded the church was unused in 1840 it remains only the war memorial.

Opposite the church was the priory of Venables whose monks and parish depended on the abbey of Cross-Saint-Leufroy. Confiscated like national good at the time of the Revolution, it was destroyed by the bombardment of 1940.

Personalities related to the commune

Etienne Mangin, wire of Louis Henri Mangin, last feudal lord of Valley-in Ailly, was rear-admiral at the 19th century.

See too

Common of the Eure

External bonds

Official site
Venables on the site of the national geographical Institute
Venables on the site of INSEE
Venables on the site of Quid
the communes closest to Venables
Venables on Mapquest
Venables on Viamichelin

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