Tournebu

French commune
nomcommune=Tournebu
région=Basse-Normandie
département=Calvados
arrondissement=Caen
canton=Thury-Harcourt
insee=14703
cp=14220
maire=Jean Vanryckeghem
mandat=2001-2008
intercomm=
longitude=-0.339444444444
latitude=48.9697222222
alt moy=150 m
alt mini=109 m
alt maxi=188 m
hectares=1,140
km²=11.4
sans=295
date-sans=1,999
dens=25
date-dens=1999

Tournebu is a commune in the "département" of Calvados in the Basse-Normandie region of France. The de Tournebu family, in medieval times one of the most powerful of the noblesse ancienne, counting among its members chevaliers, seigneurs, crusaders, deans and bishops, derived its name from the lordship of this village. In 1958 in a precedent-setting case, descendants of the de Tournebu family brought suit against another French noble family, the de Foucaults, to prevent them using the de Tournebu name in their title. [ [http://www.heraldica.org/topics/france/titlesale.htm Buying Titles of Nobility in France, heraldica.org] ]

ites of interest

*donjon (the keep)

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