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'Merey' is a commune in the Eure ''département'' in France.

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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.
In 1694 Francois Quesnay was born at Merey.

References

★ ''Encyclopaedia Britannica 1911: "Normandy"

★ MSS ''Notitia provinciarum ecclesiasticarum bulliae''