Meledunum began as a Gaulish town; Caesar noted Melun as "a town of the Senones, situated on an island in the Seine"; at the island there was a wooden bridge, which his men repaired.[3] Roman Meledunum was a mutatio where fresh horses were kept available for official couriers on the Roman road south-southeast of Paris, where it forded the Seine.[4] Around 500 A.D, Clovis I granted Melun to a Gallo-Roman magnate, Aurelianus, who had fought for Clovis several times and apparently influenced his conversion to Christianity.[5]
The Normans sacked it in 845. The castle of Melun became a royal residence of the Capetian kings. Hugh Capet (See also: House of Capet) gave Melun to Bouchard, his favorite. In the reign of Hugh's son, Robert II of France, Eudes, the count of Champagne, bought the city, but the king took it back for Bouchard in 999. The chatelain Gautier and his wife, who had sold the city, were hanged; Eudes escaped. Robert died there in July 1031.
Robert of Melun (c. 1100 – 27 February 1167) was an English scholastic Christian theologian who taught in France, and later became Bishop of Hereford in England. He studied under Peter Abelard in Paris before teaching there and at Melun, which gave him his surname.
The early viscounts of Melun were listed by 17th and 18th century genealogists, notably Père Anselme. Based on closer reading of the original documents, Adolphe Duchalais constructed this list of viscounts in 1844:[7]
Melun Shield dating from the 15th century – "Melun (Seine-et-Marne): Azure on a semy-de-lys or a castle with three towers argent. Melun was one of the original strongholds of the royal domain. Motto: fida muris usque ad mures, recalling the siege of 1420 when inhabitants had to eat rats." http://www.heraldica.org/topics/france/frcitdep.htm
Melun is served by the Gare de Melun, which is an interchange station on Paris RER line D, on the Transilien R suburban rail line, and on several national rail lines.
^Bachrach, Bernard S. (1972). Merovingian Military Organization, 481-751. U of Minnesota Press. p. 15. ISBN9780816657001.
^The Field of Mars: Being an Alphabetical Digestion of the Principal Naval and Military Engagements, in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. J. Macgowan. 1801. p. 226.
^Adolphe Duchalais, "Charte inedité de l’an 1138, relative à l’histoire des viscomtes de Melun" (Bibliothèque de l’école des chartes vol. 6 no. 6, 1845).
^Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Melun, EHESS. (in French)
Cawley, Charles, Paris Region Nobility - Vicomtes de Melun, Medieval Lands database, Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
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Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
May 11, 2023
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For other uses see Melun disambiguation Melun French pronunciation melœ listen is a commune in the Seine et Marne department in the Ile de France region north central France It is located on the southeastern outskirts of Paris about 41 kilometres 25 1 2 miles from the centre of the capital Melun is the prefecture of the Seine et Marne and the seat of one of its arrondissements Its inhabitants are called Melunais MelunPrefecture and communeTown hallCoat of armsLocation in red within Paris inner and outer suburbsLocation of MelunMelunShow map of FranceMelunShow map of Ile de France region Coordinates 48 32 26 N 2 39 36 E 48 5406 N 2 66 E 48 5406 2 66 Coordinates 48 32 26 N 2 39 36 E 48 5406 N 2 66 E 48 5406 2 66CountryFranceRegionIle de FranceDepartmentSeine et MarneArrondissementMelunCantonMelunIntercommunalityCA Melun Val de SeineGovernment Mayor 2020 2026 Louis Vogel 1 Agir Area18 04 km2 3 10 sq mi Population Jan 2020 2 41 609 Density5 200 km2 13 000 sq mi Time zoneUTC 01 00 CET Summer DST UTC 02 00 CEST INSEE Postal code77288 77000Elevation37 102 m 121 335 ft avg 54 m or 177 ft 1 French Land Register data which excludes lakes ponds glaciers gt 1 km2 0 386 sq mi or 247 acres and river estuaries Contents 1 History 1 1 Counts of Melun 1 2 Viscounts of Melun 2 Population 3 Climate 4 Transport 5 Main sights 6 Notable people 7 Education 8 Twin towns sister cities 9 See also 10 References 11 Sources 12 External linksHistory EditMeledunum began as a Gaulish town Caesar noted Melun as a town of the Senones situated on an island in the Seine at the island there was a wooden bridge which his men repaired 3 Roman Meledunum was a mutatio where fresh horses were kept available for official couriers on the Roman road south southeast of Paris where it forded the Seine 4 Around 500 A D Clovis I granted Melun to a Gallo Roman magnate Aurelianus who had fought for Clovis several times and apparently influenced his conversion to Christianity 5 The Normans sacked it in 845 The castle of Melun became a royal residence of the Capetian kings Hugh Capet See also House of Capet gave Melun to Bouchard his favorite In the reign of Hugh s son Robert II of France Eudes the count of Champagne bought the city but the king took it back for Bouchard in 999 The chatelain Gautier and his wife who had sold the city were hanged Eudes escaped Robert died there in July 1031 Robert of Melun c 1100 27 February 1167 was an English scholastic Christian theologian who taught in France and later became Bishop of Hereford in England He studied under Peter Abelard in Paris before teaching there and at Melun which gave him his surname In July 1415 Melun was besieged by King Henry V of England who had recently signed the Treaty of Troyes with King Charles VI of France The town was in the hands of the Dauphin later Charles VII of France who had been dispossessed by the treaty The defenders were led by Arnaud Guillaume seigneur de Barbazan and fought off the besiegers for fourteen weeks before capitulating 6 The town was liberated by Joan of Arc on 17 April 1430 Counts of Melun Edit Aurelianus c 500 Donatus 834 Bouchard I 956 967 1005 also Count of Vendome and Count of ParisViscounts of Melun Edit The early viscounts of Melun were listed by 17th and 18th century genealogists notably Pere Anselme Based on closer reading of the original documents Adolphe Duchalais constructed this list of viscounts in 1844 7 Salo c 993 possibly legendary Joscelin I c 998 William possibly c 1000 Ursio c 1067 1085 William the Carpenter c 1094 Hilduin Garin Ursio II Jean unknown dates possibly not viscounts Adam c 1138 1141 married Mahaut daughter of his predecessor Joscelin II c 1156 The title eventually became an honorary peerage Such viscounts include Honore Armand de Villars and Claude Louis Hector de Villars Watercolor postcard showing Melun in the 1920s and circa 1095 Population EditHistorical populationYearPop p a 17935 500 18006 111 1 52 18066 818 1 84 18216 992 0 17 18316 622 0 54 18366 846 0 67 18418 950 5 51 18469 151 0 45 185110 395 2 58 185610 312 0 16 186111 170 1 61 186611 408 0 42 187211 130 0 41 187611 241 0 25 188112 145 1 56 188612 564 0 68 189112 792 0 36 189613 641 1 29 YearPop p a 190113 059 0 87 190613 908 1 27 191114 861 1 33 192114 657 0 14 192615 928 1 68 193116 356 0 53 193617 499 1 36 194617 573 0 04 195420 219 1 77 196226 873 3 62 196834 518 4 26 197537 712 1 27 198235 005 1 06 199035 319 0 11 199935 695 0 12 200737 835 0 73 201240 503 1 37 201740 032 0 23 Graphs are temporarily unavailable due to technical issues Source EHESS 8 and INSEE 1968 2017 9 Climate EditClimate data for Melun 1981 2010 averages Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec YearRecord high C F 16 9 62 4 21 2 70 2 25 6 78 1 29 5 85 1 31 2 88 2 36 8 98 2 39 4 102 9 38 9 102 0 33 8 92 8 29 4 84 9 22 1 71 8 17 6 63 7 39 4 102 9 Average high C F 6 4 43 5 7 8 46 0 12 0 53 6 15 3 59 5 19 3 66 7 22 5 72 5 25 2 77 4 25 0 77 0 21 1 70 0 16 2 61 2 10 3 50 5 6 8 44 2 15 7 60 3 Average low C F 1 0 33 8 1 0 33 8 3 1 37 6 5 0 41 0 8 8 47 8 11 6 52 9 13 5 56 3 13 2 55 8 10 4 50 7 7 8 46 0 3 9 39 0 1 8 35 2 6 8 44 2 Record low C F 19 8 3 6 19 7 3 5 10 3 13 5 4 6 23 7 2 1 28 2 1 6 34 9 4 0 39 2 3 5 38 3 0 4 32 7 4 8 23 4 9 3 15 3 14 8 5 4 19 8 3 6 Average precipitation mm inches 55 1 2 17 47 6 1 87 51 0 2 01 53 7 2 11 64 6 2 54 53 9 2 12 61 3 2 41 53 4 2 10 56 1 2 21 63 6 2 50 55 2 2 17 61 4 2 42 676 9 26 65 Average precipitation days 11 0 9 9 10 6 9 8 10 8 8 7 8 2 7 8 8 4 9 9 10 6 11 4 117 2Average relative humidity 88 83 79 73 75 74 73 74 78 85 88 89 79 9Mean monthly sunshine hours 62 6 79 6 136 5 178 3 211 7 226 5 229 3 221 7 174 8 118 0 65 4 48 2 1 752 5Source 1 Meteo France 10 11 Source 2 Infoclimat fr humidity 1961 1990 12 Transport Edit Melun Shield dating from the 15th century Melun Seine et Marne Azure on a semy de lys or a castle with three towers argent Melun was one of the original strongholds of the royal domain Motto fida muris usque ad mures recalling the siege of 1420 when inhabitants had to eat rats http www heraldica org topics france frcitdep htm Melun is served by the Gare de Melun which is an interchange station on Paris RER line D on the Transilien R suburban rail line and on several national rail lines Main sights EditThe Collegiate Church of Notre Dame Melun was the original home of the Melun Diptych The nearby chateau of Vaux le Vicomte is considered a smaller predecessor of Palace of Versailles The officers school of the French Gendarmerie is located in Melun Notable people EditMelun is the birthplace of Morgan Cipres pair skater Jeremie Bela footballer Willy Boly footballer Pierre Certon c 1510 1520 1572 composer of the Renaissance probably born in Melun Jacques Amyot 1513 1593 writer Chimene Badi 1982 singer Samir Beloufa 1979 professional footballer Raphael Desroses basketball player Khamis Digol footballer Stephane Dondon basketball player Gregory Guilvert racing driver Judah of Melun 13th century French rabbi and tosafist Yvan Kibundu footballer Godson Kyeremeh footballer Edme Francois Mallet 1713 1755 theologian and encyclopediste Steven Mouyokolo footballer Granddi Ngoyi footballer Yretha Silete figure skater Oumar Solet footballer Bertrand Grospellier 1981 poker player William the Carpenter viscount of Melun in the 11th century Jean Baptiste Djebbari politician and former Minister of TransportEducation Edit Lycee Jacques Amyot A campus of the Ecole nationale de l aviation civile French civil aviation university is located in Melun Public high schools sixth form colleges 13 Lycee Leonard de Vinci Lycee Jacques Amyot Lycee Georges SandThere is one private high school sixth form college 13 Lycee Saint AspaisTwin towns sister cities EditSee also List of twin towns and sister cities in France Melun is twinned with 14 Crema Italy Spelthorne England United Kingdom Vaihingen Stuttgart GermanySee also EditCommunes of the Seine et Marne departmentReferences Edit Repertoire national des elus les maires in French data gouv fr Plateforme ouverte des donnees publiques francaises 13 September 2022 Populations legales 2020 The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies 29 December 2022 Gallic War vii 58 60 Meledunum appears in the Antonine Itinerary almost halfway between Lutetia Paris and Condate Rennes Meledunum Bachrach Bernard S 1972 Merovingian Military Organization 481 751 U of Minnesota Press p 15 ISBN 9780816657001 The Field of Mars Being an Alphabetical Digestion of the Principal Naval and Military Engagements in Europe Asia Africa and America J Macgowan 1801 p 226 Adolphe Duchalais Charte inedite de l an 1138 relative a l histoire des viscomtes de Melun Bibliotheque de l ecole des chartes vol 6 no 6 1845 Des villages de Cassini aux communes d aujourd hui Commune data sheet Melun EHESS in French Population en historique depuis 1968 INSEE Donnees climatiques de la station de Melun in French Meteo France Archived from the original on 12 January 2019 Retrieved 5 January 2015 Climat Ile de France in French Meteo France Archived from the original on 13 June 2019 Retrieved 5 January 2016 Normes et records 1961 1990 Melun Villaroche 77 altitude 91m in French Infoclimat Retrieved 5 January 2016 a b Liste des etablissements scolaires Archived 21 September 2016 at the Wayback Machine Melun Consulte le 29 aout 2016 Jumelage ville melun fr in French Melun Archived from the original on 22 October 2019 Retrieved 19 November 2019 Sources EditInitial text from the Carpenters Encyclopedia of Carpenters 2001 Compiled by John R Carpenter The Viscounts and Counts of Melun are listed in Detlev Schwennicke Europaische Stammtafeln Neue Folge Volume VII Tafels 55 amp 56 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Melun Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica article Melun Cawley Charles Paris Region Nobility Vicomtes de Melun Medieval Lands database Foundation for Medieval Genealogy Official website in French Tourist office website in French 1999 Land Use from IAURIF Institute for Urban Planning and Development of the Paris Ile de France region in English Base Merimee Search for heritage in the commune Ministere francais de la Culture in French Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Melun amp oldid 1144735095, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
