Les Jonquerets-de-Livet

Les Jonquerets-de-Livet

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Les Jonquerets-de-Livet

Coordinates: 49°01′20″N 0°36′33″E / 49.0222°N 0.6092°E / 49.0222; 0.6092Coordinates: 49°01′20″N 0°36′33″E / 49.0222°N 0.6092°E / 49.0222; 0.6092
Country France
Region Normandy
Department Eure
Arrondissement Bernay
Canton Beaumesnil
Government
 • Mayor (2008–2014) Michèle Benard
Area1 10.28 km2 (3.97 sq mi)
Population (2008)2 285
 • Density 28/km2 (72/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code 27356 / 27410
Elevation 163–181 m (535–594 ft)
(avg. 134 m or 440 ft)

1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Les Jonquerets-de-Livet is a commune in the Eure department in Haute-Normandie, France. It incorporates the village of Livet-en-Ouche, once known simply as Livet.

Etymology

Mentioned as Lived in the 11th century.

For "L'ivet" with article agglutination. (Northern) French if (Yew-tree) and suffixe -etu(m) > -ey / -oy /-ay > -aie, used to mean "collection of trees", so that Livet means "yew grove" (l'ivaie in modern French).[1]

The qualificative of the former name -en-Ouche, means "in the Pays d'Ouche", a traditional region of Normandy, to make the difference with other Livets, like Livet-sur-Authou.

In 1845, the commune was incorporated in a new one, together with Les Jonquerets (Les Junchereiz 1209 "The brooms place"), called Les Jonquerets de Livet.

History

The de Livet family, feudal under-tenants of the barony of the de Ferrières family (centered on that family's seat at Ferrières-Saint-Hilaire, located a scant four miles from Jonquerets-de-Livet), originated in Livet-en-Ouche. Descendants of one branch of this family became the Marquises of Barville [2] in France (de Livet de Barville).[3][4]

Louis-François de Livet, Chevalier, Marquis de Barville, 1766. Buried at Bazoques in 1789.

The Norman French branch of the de Livet family counts among its members early knights (chevaliers), church officials (including Guillaume de Livet, a judge at the trial of Joan of Arc),[5] Canon of Rouen Robert de Livet (who excommunicated King Henry V of England during his siege of Rouen, after which de Livet was imprisoned for five years in England) [6] chevalier banneret Jean de Livet (standard bearer to King Philip II of France in 1215) and early Crusaders.[7] Many de Livet family members were associated with the Knights Hospitallers, a medieval chivalric order originally founded to protect pilgrims to the Holy Land.

The de Livets were among the ancient noble families (noblesse ancienne, or Noblesse d'épée) of France.[8] The family's name appears in the earliest records of Normandy.[9] One branch of the family later became the Marquis de Livet de Barville. Another branch was named the hereditary controllers of the rivers and waterways of Normandy in the 13th century, reflected in the use of an anchor on that branch of the family's French coat of arms. The family traditionally bore as their coat of arms three molettes d'or (gold) on a blue (azure) background.[10]

Another branch of the family settled at Arentot in Ourville (now Arantot, hamlet at Ourville-en-Caux).[11] Georges de Livet, a member of this branch of the de Livet family, was killed at the battle of Agincourt in 1415. The last member of this branch of the family, who died without descendants, was comte Constantin Augustin Robert de Lyvet, mayor of Ourville, who died in 1924.[12]

During the Norman Conquest of England, a branch of the de Livet family followed the de Ferrers (later the Earls of Derby) to England, along with the Curzons (Notre-Dame-de-Courson) and the Baskervilles (Basqueville, now Bacqueville-en-Caux), who were also under-tenants of the old Ferrieres fiefdom in Normandy.[13] The name of this branch of the de Livet family was anglicized into the name Levett, Levet, Lyvet, Livett, Leavett and its variants.

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±%
1962172—    
1968225+30.8%
1975213−5.3%
1982220+3.3%
1990221+0.5%
1999264+19.5%
2008285+8.0%

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See also

References

  1. ↑ François de Beaurepaire, Les noms des communes et anciennes paroisses de l'Eure, éditions Picard 1981. p. 136.
  2. ↑ Dictionnaire de la Noblesse, Contenant les généalogies, l'histoire, la Chronologie des Familles Nobles de France, Francois Alexandre Aubert de La Chesnaye-Desbois, 1786
  3. ↑ The Norman People and Their Existing Descendants in the British Dominions and the United States of America, Henry S. King & Co., London, 1874
  4. ↑ Notes pour Servir à la Topographie et à l'Histoire du département de l'Eure, Auguste le Prevost, Impr. de A. Herissey, Evreux, 1849
  5. ↑ Judges, Trial of Joan of Arc
  6. ↑ Henry V (King of England), Charles Lethbridge Kingsford, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1901
  7. ↑ Mansions and Country Seats of Staffordshire and Warwickshire, Alfred Williams, Walter Henry Mallett, F. Brown, 1889
  8. ↑ Role Normands, Nobiliaire universel de France: ou Recueil général des généalogies historiques des maisons nobles de ce royaume, Volume 6, Nicolas Viton de Saint-Allais, Réimprimé à la Librairie Bachelin-Deflorenne, Paris, 1874
  9. ↑ Calendar of Documents Preserved in France, Calvados: Part 1, J. Horace Round (editor), 1899, Institute of Historical Research, British History Online
  10. ↑ Nobiliaire Universel de France, M. de Saint-Allais, Paris, 1815
  11. ↑ Memoires, Societe des antiquaire de Normandie, 1859
  12. ↑ Histoire de quelques patronymes
  13. ↑ The Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families, Lewis Christopher Loyd, The Harleian Society, Leeds, 1951, vol. 103

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