Château de Saint-Clair was a castle in

Saint-Clair-sur-Epte Saint-Clair-sur-Epte (, literally ''Saint-Clair on Epte'') is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department in Île-de-France in northern France. It is situated on the river Epte, 10 km southwest of Gisors. The treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte in 9 ...

Val-d'Oise Val-d'Oise (, "Vale of the Oise") is a department in the Île-de-France region, Northern France. It was created in 1968 following the split of the Seine-et-Oise department. In 2019, Val-d'Oise had a population of 1,249,674.

History

The remains of an ancient castle dating from the 10th century exist to the west of the town. During 1118,

Henry I of England Henry I (c. 1068 – 1 December 1135), also known as Henry Beauclerc, was King of England from 1100 to his death in 1135. He was the fourth son of William the Conqueror and was educated in Latin and the liberal arts. On William's death in ...

seized the castle of Saint-Clair.

Ordericus Vitalis Orderic Vitalis ( la, Ordericus Vitalis; 16 February 1075 – ) was an English chronicler and Benedictine monk who wrote one of the great contemporary chronicles of 11th- and 12th-century Normandy and Anglo-Norman England. Modern historia ...

, ''The Ecclesiastical History'', Book XII. (The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis: Books XI, XII and XIII, Translated and edited by

Marjorie Chibnall Marjorie McCallum Chibnall (27 September 1915 – 23 June 2012) was an English historian, medievalist and Latin translator. She edited the ''Historia Ecclesiastica'' by Orderic Vitalis, with whom she shared the same birthplace of Atcham in Shro ...

, Oxford University Press, 2002. )

References

*The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Volume 21. Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain). C. Knight, 1841. page 200.] {{DEFAULTSORT:Saint-Clair Châteaux in Val-d'Oise