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St Ouen, Jersey

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St Ouen (Jèrriais: Saint Ouën, French: Saint-Ouen) is one of the twelve parishes of Jersey in the Channel Islands. It is around 8.8 kilometres (5.5 mi) north-west of St Helier. It has a population of 4,097. The parish is the largest parish by surface area, covering 8,525 vergées (15 km2), and is located in part on a peninsula. The parish is largely agricultural. There is no single centre, for the church, parish hall, and school are separated; St Ouen's Village is the most significant settlement in the parish. The parish hosts the northernmost section of its namesake bay, which sweeps from the north to the south of the island. It is a distinct parish culturally. Being the farthest from St Helier, it has many differences from the rest of the island, for example having its own dialect of Jèrriais. Its manor, St Ouen's Manor — the seat of the de Carteret family for over eight centuries — is the senior fief in the island, and the influence of that family has also been a factor in the parish's independent-minded approach to its affairs.

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Grosnez Castle
Grosnez Castle

Grosnez Castle is a ruined 14th-century castle in Saint Ouen, situated on the Grosnez headland in the north-west corner of the island of Jersey in the Channel Islands. None of the castle's history was known before the late nineteenth century when archaeological excavations were carried out to remove large quantities of rubble which covered all of the present ruins other than the top of the gatehouse. There are extremely few documentary records relating to the castle and as a result, following the archaeological excavations, various theories were put forward by archaeologists and historians as to the castle's origins and history. Many have been repeated so often in the last ninety years that they have been regarded as the authoritative truth rather than possible theories as originally made. A review and further research of the archaeology and history of the castle have recently been published which puts forward a different and alternative plausible history. That recent research suggests that the castle had an extremely short life immediately before it was captured by the Duc de Bourbon, who had opportunistically invaded the Channel Islands with Bertrand du Guesclin, Marshall of France, in 1373 hoping to capture rich booty and extract tributes and ransoms from islanders. The research suggests that construction of the castle was started by Sir Renaud de Carteret, Seigneur of St. Ouen in about 1369–70 at the time warfare was renewed in the Hundred Years' War following the Treaty of Brétigny of 1360, and it was probably not even complete at the time of its capture three or four years later. Following the common practice of warfare at the time, as there was no intention of occupying it longer term, the Grosnez Castle was sufficiently destroyed by Bourbon and du Guesclin to prevent its reoccupation and use by the inhabitants of Jersey, who would have been required to pay ransoms and tributes to the invaders in future years as agreed, and which the invaders would have little hesitation in brutally enforcing. In the case of De Guesclin and Bourbon, the island paid tributes until the end of 1375.