Hauteville-la-Guichard

Hauteville-la-Guichard

The church of Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption
Hauteville-la-Guichard

Coordinates: 49°07′38″N 1°18′02″W / 49.1272°N 1.3006°W / 49.1272; -1.3006Coordinates: 49°07′38″N 1°18′02″W / 49.1272°N 1.3006°W / 49.1272; -1.3006
Country France
Region Normandy
Department Manche
Arrondissement Coutances
Canton Saint-Sauveur-Lendelin
Intercommunality Communauté de communes du canton de Saint-Sauveur-Lendelin
Government
 • Mayor (2008–2014) François Eude
Area1 11.98 km2 (4.63 sq mi)
Population (2006)2 425
 • Density 35/km2 (92/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code 50232 / 50570
Elevation 11–111 m (36–364 ft)
(avg. 75 m or 246 ft)

1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Hauteville-la-Guichard is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France (population: 425 in 2006).

It is famous as the original stronghold of the Hauteville family who made their fortunes in southern Italy and Sicily as the Norman kings of Sicily, beginning with the modest Norman seigneur Tancred of Hauteville, who is commemorated by a simple exhibit housed in the former presbytère.

Origins

The Hauteville family is said to descend from Hiallt, a Norseman who is said to have settled in the Cotentin and founded the village of Hialtus Villa (Hauteville) in 920, the later family's toponym coming from this town.[1][2] From just which village of Hauteville the family drew its name is hard to identify with certainty, though modern scholarship favours Hauteville-la-Guichard.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Hill, James S. The place-names of Somerset. St. Stephen's printing works, 1914, Princeton University. Page 256
  2. ↑ Revue de l'Avranchin et du pays de Granville, Volume 31, Issue 174, Parts 3-4. Société d'archéologie, de littérature, sciences et arts d'Avranches, Mortain, Granville. the University of Michigan.

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