Tancarville Explained

Tancarville
Commune Status:Commune
Image Coat Of Arms:Blason ville fr Tancarville (Seine-Maritime).svg
Arrondissement:Le Havre
Canton:Bolbec
Insee:76684
Postal Code:76430
Mayor:Frédéric Rabby-Demaison[1]
Term:2020 - 2026
Intercommunality:Caux Seine Agglo
Coordinates:49.4878°N 0.4544°W
Elevation M:90
Elevation Min M:0
Elevation Max M:117
Area Km2:7.42

Tancarville (in French pronounced as /tɑ̃kaʁvil/) 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 14miles 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; Tankrads 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.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Répertoire national des élus: les maires. data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 2 December 2020. fr.