Merey

Merey
Coat of arms of Merey Coat of arms
Merey
Location within Upper Normandy region Merey
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Eure
Arrondissement	Évreux
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)
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 Upper 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 Haute-Normandie.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1962	98	—
1968	127	+29.6%
1975	138	+8.7%
1982	192	+39.1%
1990	185	−3.6%
1999	260	+40.5%
2008	303	+16.5%

Personalities

In 1694 Francois Quesnay was born at Merey.

See also

• Communes of the Eure department

References

• INSEE

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