ANDELOT-BLANCHEVILLE

'Andelot-Blancheville' is a commune in the Haute-Marne ''département'', on the river Rognon (a tributary of the Marne).

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Treaty (587)

People linked to Andelot

Sources and references

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Andelot is the capital of the canton of Andelot-Blancheville, in the arrondissement of Chaumont.
Circa 1950 it had a population of 770, of which 687 in its tiny 'agglomération'.

Treaty (587)

It was the site of an important pact, known as the 'treaty of Andelot', by which king Guntram of Burgundy and queen Brunehaut agreed that Guntram was to adopt her and Sigebert I of Austrasia's son Childebert II as his successor, and ally himself with Childebert against the revolted leudes.
It also brought about the cession of Tours by Guntram to Childebert.

People linked to Andelot

★ François de Coligny, the younger brother of the huguenots admiral Coligny and cardinal Coligny, born in 1521 at Châtillon-sur-Loing, was styled 'seigneur d'Andelot'; but the castle of Andelot was not in the Andelot-Blancheville city, but at Andelot village (now called Andelot-Morval, in the Jura department).

★ the composer Michel Pignolet de Montéclair was born in Andelot

Sources and references

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★ ''Nouveau Petit Larousse Illustré'' (1952, in French)