Merey

Merey
Commune
Coat of arms
Merey Location within Normandy region Merey
Coordinates: 48°58′00″N 1°24′30″E / 48.9667°N 1.4083°E / 48.9667; 1.4083Coordinates: 48°58′00″N 1°24′30″E / 48.9667°N 1.4083°E / 48.9667; 1.4083
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Eure
Arrondissement	Les Andelys
Canton	Pacy-sur-Eure
Intercommunality	Portes de l'Eure
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Lucien Tesquet
Area1	8.66 km2 (3.34 sq mi)
Population (2008)2	303
• Density	35/km2 (91/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	27400 /27640
Elevation	45–133 m (148–436 ft) (avg. 50 m or 160 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.

Merey is a commune in the Eure department of the Normandy region in northern France.

History

As Madrie (Pagus Madriensis, later pays de Merey) it was a pagus in the north of Gaul lying between the Seine river and the rivers Eure and Iton. At the beginning of the fifth century, when the Notitia provinciarum was compiled, it was a Roman administrative division or pagus of Provincia Lugdunensis Secunda.

In the ninth-century Carolingian Empire. In 822, Pepin, king of Aquitaine married Ingeltrude (also called Engelberga, Hringard, or Ringart), daughter of Theodobert, count of Madrie (c. 800-after 876), who was a son of Nibelung (Nivelan) of the royal house of the Burgundians.

It became part of Normandy in the 10th century (EB 1911) and is now in the region called Normandie.

Population

Personalities

In 1694 Francois Quesnay was born at Merey.

See also

• Communes of the Eure department

References

• INSEE

• Encyclopædia Britannica 1911: "Normandy"
• MSS Notitia provinciarum ecclesiasticarum bulliae

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