Évreux is a commune in Haute-Normandie in northern France in the Eure department, of which it is the capital.
Its inhabitants are called the Ébroïcienne(s) (fem.) and Ébroïciens (mas.).
The city is on the Iton river.
In Late Antiquity, the town, attested in the fourth century CE, was named Mediolanum Aulercorum, "the central town of the Aulerci", the Gallic tribe that then inhabited the area. Mediolanum was a small regional center of Roman provin...
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Évreux is a commune in Haute-Normandie in northern France in the Eure department, of which it is the capital.
Its inhabitants are called the Ébroïcienne(s) (fem.) and Ébroïciens (mas.).
The city is on the Iton river.
In Late Antiquity, the town, attested in the fourth century CE, was named Mediolanum Aulercorum, "the central town of the Aulerci", the Gallic tribe that then inhabited the area. Mediolanum was a small regional center of Roman province of Gallia Lugdunensis.
The modern city name originates from the gallic tribe of Eburovices (literally Those who overcome by the yew?) (from Gaulish eburo-)
The first known members of the family of the counts of Évreux descended from an illegitimate son of Richard I, duke of Normandy; the comtes d'Évreux became extinct in the male line with the death of Count William in 1118.
The countship passed in right of Agnes, William's sister, wife of Simon de Montfort-l'Amaury (d. 1087) to the house of the lords of Montfort-l'Amaury. Amaury III of...
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