• Source: Tancarville

      • Tancarville (French pronunciation: [tɑ̃kaʁvil]) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region of northern France.


      Geography


      Tancarville is a farming village surrounded by woodland, by the banks of the river Seine in the Pays de Caux, some 14 miles (23 km) east of Le Havre and near the junction of the D39, D982 and D910 roads at the eastern end of the A131 autoroute. The canal de Tancarville to le Havre starts here and it is also the site of the 125 m high Tancarville Bridge.


      History


      Tancarvilla 1103; Tancardi villae 1114; Tankrad's farm. Germanic male given name Tankrad > Tancred, common in the duchy of Normandy. The first lords of Tancarville were the chamberlains of the Norman dukes, and then of the King of England too. William de Tancarville, a grandson of Stephen, Count of Tréguier, trained William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, whom he knighted in 1166. The title Earl of Tankerville was created in the Peerage of England for John Grey by King Henry V, during the Hundred Years' War and still exists, albeit in a later creation.


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      Population




      Places of interest



      The 19th-century church of St. Michel
      The 12th-century Château de Tancarville and chapel
      An 18th-century château
      The château of Drumare
      The Tancarville Bridge
      Vivier de Tancarville, a large natural reserve


      See also


      Tancarville Bridge
      Communes of the Seine-Maritime department


      References




      External links



      History of Chateau de Tancarville with images

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