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Source: Wikiwand: Tancarville

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Titre	Wikiwand: Tancarville

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Urse d'Abitot 1st Baron de Salwarpe
Seigneur ALMERICUS de la Ville Tancrède Seigneur d’Abbetot
Lady HELISENDE de Normandie

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Tancarville 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. Heraldry The arms of Tancarville are blazoned : "Gules, an escutcheon argent between 8 angennes (roses) in orle." (Note: this "angenne" is very rose-like, not the highly stylized cinqfoil.) Population Historical population of Tancarville Year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 Population 938 921 1026 1139 1326 1236 1246 From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once. 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.

Tancarville 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.

Heraldry
The arms of Tancarville are blazoned : "Gules, an escutcheon argent between 8 angennes (roses) in orle." (Note: this "angenne" is very rose-like, not the highly stylized cinqfoil.)

Population
Historical population of Tancarville

Year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006
Population 938 921 1026 1139 1326 1236 1246

From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

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.