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° Chateau de Sommesnil in Sommesnil. Château du Taillis in Duclair; Château de Tancarville in Tancarville; Château du Val des Leux in Mauny; Château du Vaudroc in Limpiville; Manoir de Villers in Saint-Pierre-de-Manneville; Château d'Yville in Yville-sur-Seine
This list of castles in Normandy is a list of medieval castles or château forts in the regions of Lower Normandy and Upper Normandy in northern France.
Richard the Lionheart inherited Normandy from his father, Henry II, in 1189 when he ascended the throne of England.There was a rivalry between the Capetians and the Plantagenets, Richard as the Plantagenet king of England was more powerful than the Capetian king of France, despite the fact that Richard was a vassal of the French king and paid homage for his lands in the country. [1]
Several placenames exclusively found in Normandy come from this same origin: probably all the Trouville, Bourgtheroulde, Thérouldeville, Turretot, etc. place names are related. The surname is also very common in the Channel Island of Guernsey, spelt variously as above and currently as mine, Torode.
Garden of the château. The Château du Champ-de-Bataille, is a château located in the Eure department of the French region of Upper Normandy.It's a Baroque château lying between the communes of Neubourg and Sainte-Opportune-du-Bosc, and in the Campagne du Neubourg, between the river Risle to the west and the river Iton to the east.
the Musée de Normandie (Museum of Normandy) along with many periodical exhibitions about arts and history, in the castle residence; Saint George's church; the Échiquier de Normandie (Exchequer of Normandy), used as a temporary hall of exhibitions, which seated the Court of Normandy; a garden showing plants cultivated in the Middle Ages.