Geographic Characteristics:
Space: 1483
Population: 814
Census: 1999
Population: the Blarusiens
Origin of name: Latin barrulus the "land of wheat."
Blaru History:
City Blaru is a French town founded in 1044, in any case is the first time that the name is mentioned. The city is rich with artifacts from the Neolithic and the Bronze Age human occupation attested ancient on this fertile land on the border of Normandy.
The situation of the parish on the edge of the Ile de France makes it strategically important.
are the lords of the fief of Norman origin and accompanied William the Conqueror in England during the conquest in 1066. A castle belonging to Blaru, a church and priory were built in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
But the wars that devastated the country forced the monks to leave Blaru. Since the fourteenth century until the Revolution, Sacquainville and Tilly are successively lords of this land.
The village has several water sources and has the famous ferruginous Fountain St. Adjutor .
Adjutor was born around 1070 in Vernon. His date of birth is not very accurate. It seems he actually born between 1069 and 1075, or Vernon, or Blaru where his mother was a field, where the legend of the miraculous fountain Blaru where his nurse would wash its diapers. (Albert Anne "pages on the new Township Bonnières). He died Pressagny l'Orgueilleux-April 30, 1131.
Cutting Administrative revolutionary Blaru place in Canton Bonnières.
