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Châtellerault is a commune in the Vienne département, in the Poitou-Charentes région of France. It is located north of Poitou in Touraine. The commune is an administrative division of France. ...
This article is about the French département. ...
The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France, roughly analogous to British counties and are now grouped into 22 metropolitan and four overseas régions. ...
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France is divided into 26 régions: 21 of these are in the continental part of metropolitan France, one is Corse on the island of Corsica (although strictly speaking Corse is in fact a territorial collectivity, not a région, but is referred to as a région in common...
The French Republic or France (French: République française or France) is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents. ...
Poitou was a province of France whose capital city was Poitiers. ...
Touraine was a province of France. ...
History
It was an important stronghold on the northern March of Poitou, established by the Count of Poitiers to secure his borders in the early 10th century. The count's local representative, the Vicomte de Chatellerhault was established as a hereditary appointment by the time of Airaud who was probably a kinsman of the counts of Auvergne and dukes of Aquitaine; his heirs were vicomtes until the mid 11th century. For alternative meanings, see March (disambiguation). ...
Among the men who have borne the title of Count of Poitiers (or Poitou, in what is now France but in the Middle Ages became part of the Aquitaine) are: Guerin (or Warin[us]) (638-677) Renaud (795-843) Bernard I (815-844) Ranulph I (835-875) Ranulph II (855...
[Note : The Roman numerals after the names indicate which duke of that name they were and are not necessarily the same as their ordinals for their other titles. ...
The daughter of Aymeric I, Aenor de Chatellerault (ca 1103 - ca 1130), whose mother had been the "mistress" in the new courtly love poetry of the troubadour lord William, sixth Count of Poitiers and ninth Duke of Aquitaine, who lodged in his tower the "dangereuse de Chatellerault," married his son, William X of Aquitaine, and was mother of Eleanor of Aquitaine. William IX of Aquitaine (October 22, 1071 - February 10, 1126, also Guillaume dAquitaine), nicknamed the Troubador was Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony and Count of Poitiers as William VII of Poitiers between 1086 and 1126. ...
Among the men who have borne the title of Count of Poitiers (or Poitou, in what is now France but in the Middle Ages became part of the Aquitaine) are: Guerin (or Warin[us]) (638-677) Renaud (795-843) Bernard I (815-844) Ranulph I (835-875) Ranulph II (855...
William X of Aquitaine (1099 – April 9, 1137), nicknamed the Saint was Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony and Count of Poitiers as William VIII of Poitiers between 1126 and 1137. ...
Eleanor of Aquitaine (Bordeaux, France, about 1122/1124 – March 31, 1204 in Fontevrault, Anjou) was one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in Europe during the Middle Ages. ...
The title, Vicomte de Chatellerault, passed in turn to each of three great French noble families: La Rochefoucauld, Lusignan and, from the 13th century until the French Revolution, to the family of Harcourt. La Rochefoucauld can refer to: François de La Rochefoucauld La Rochefoucauld, Charente, a commune in the Charente département in France This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
The Lusignan family originated in Poitou in western France, and in the late 12th century came to rule the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Kingdom of Cyprus. ...
The period of the French Revolution in the history of France covers the years between 1789 and 1799, in which democrats and republicans overthrew the absolute monarchy and the Roman Catholic Church was forced to undergo radical restructuring. ...
Harcourt is also a surname Harcourt (pronunciation: AHR-koor) is a commune and a canton of the Eure département, in the Haute-Normandie (Upper Normandy) région, in France. ...
From 1816 to 1968, Chatellerault was a center of sword and arms manufacture for the French government.
Coat of arms 1°) D'argent, au lion de sable, lit. with the sand lion. (Malte-Brun, La France illustrée, volume V, 1884) Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun (b. ...
1884 is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar). ...
2°) D'argent, au lion de gueules, à la bordure de sable chargée de besants d'or, lit. with the lion of mouths, the sand border charged with the golden beasts. (Malta-Brown, la France illustrée, volume V, 1884)
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External links - City council website (http://www.ville-chatellerault.fr/) (in French)
- Tourist office website (http://www.tourisme-chatellerault.com/)
- Brief history of the manufacture de Chatellerault (http://users.skynet.be/euro-swords/chatellerault.htm)
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