Jonquerets-de-Livet
Part of Mesnil-en-Ouche
Former presshouse
Former presshouse
Coat of arms of Jonquerets-de-Livet
Coat of arms
Location of Jonquerets-de-Livet
Jonquerets-de-Livet is located in France
Jonquerets-de-Livet
Jonquerets-de-Livet
Jonquerets-de-Livet is located in Normandy
Jonquerets-de-Livet
Jonquerets-de-Livet
Coordinates: 49°01′20″N 0°36′33″E / 49.0222°N 0.6092°E / 49.0222; 0.6092
CountryFrance
RegionNormandy
DepartmentEure
ArrondissementBernay
CantonBernay
CommuneMesnil-en-Ouche
Area
1
10.28 km2 (3.97 sq mi)
Population
 (2019)[1]
337
 • Density33/km2 (85/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code
27410
Elevation163–181 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.

Jonquerets-de-Livet (French pronunciation: [ʒɔ̃kʁɛ də livɛ]), also Les Jonquerets-de-Livet ([le ʒɔ̃kʁɛ də livɛ]), is a former commune in the Eure department in Normandy, France.[2] On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Mesnil-en-Ouche.[3] 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).[4]

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[5] in France (de Livet de Barville).[6][7]

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),[8] 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) [9] chevalier banneret Jean de Livet (standard bearer to King Philip II of France in 1215) and early Crusaders.[10] Many de Livet family members were associated with the Knights Hospitallers, a medieval chivalric order 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.[11] The family's name appears in the earliest records of Normandy.[12] 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.[13]

Another branch of the family settled at Arentot in Ourville (now Arantot, hamlet at Ourville-en-Caux).[14] 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.[15]

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.[16] 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%

Sights

  • Thousand year old yew-tree in the former Churchyard, near the destroyed Saint-Martin church in the hamlet Livet. Statue of Saint Martin near the old yew. The church was demolished around 1835.
  • 16th-century Gothic Notre-Dame church in Les Jonquerets. Chancel rebuilt in the 19th century
  • Half-timbered manor, 16th and 18th centuries.
  • Presshouse 17th century (see above).

See also

References

  1. ↑ Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2019, INSEE
  2. ↑ Commune de Jonquerets-de-Livet (27356), INSEE
  3. ↑ Arrêté préfectoral 9 December 2015 (in French)
  4. ↑ François de Beaurepaire, Les noms des communes et anciennes paroisses de l'Eure, éditions Picard 1981. p. 136.
  5. ↑ de La Chesnaye des Bois, F.A.A. (1775). Dictionnaire de la noblesse, contenant les généalogies, l'histoire et la chronologie des familles nobles de France. Vol. 9. Vve Duchesne. p. 69. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
  6. ↑ The Norman People and Their Existing Descendants in the British Dominions and the United States of America. 1874. p. 310. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
  7. ↑ Prévost, A.L. (1849). Notes pour servir à la topographie et à l'histoire des communes du département de l'Eure au Moyen Age. A. Hérissey. p. 59. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
  8. ↑ Judges, Trial of Joan of Arc Archived 2006-01-02 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ↑ Kingsford, C.L. (1901). Henry V.: The Typical Mediaeval Hero. G.P. Putnam's Sons. p. 256. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
  10. ↑ Williams, A.; Mallett, W.H. (1899). Mansions and Country Seats of Staffordshire and Warwickshire: A Series of Descriptive Articles. F. Brown. pp. 1–62. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
  11. ↑ 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
  12. ↑ "Calvados: Part 1 | British History Online | Calendar of Documents Preserved in France, Calvados: Part 1, J. Horace Round (editor), 1899, Institute of Historical Research, British History Online". british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
  13. ↑ de Saint Allais, N.V. (1815). Nobiliare universel de France, ou recueil général des généalogies historiques des maisons nobles de ce royaume. pp. 1–145. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
  14. ↑ Société des antiquaires de Normandie (1859). "Mémoires de la Société des antiquaires de Normandie". Mémoires de la Société des Antiquaires de Normandie. 24: 1–444. ISSN 1279-6662. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
  15. ↑ "Histoire de quelques patronymes". pagesperso-orange.fr. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
  16. ↑ Loyd, L.C.; Clay, C.T.; Douglas, D.C. (1951). The Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families. Genealogical Publishing Company. p. 42. ISBN 9780806306490. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
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