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Before Year K1
A small village with a few shepherds and a few fishermen, sheltered under the cliff
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1000
A Viking Chief, Gran is supposed to have settled. Giving his name to Granville.
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1439
Granville real birth act. The Englishman sir Thomas Scales, was commanding our region for English King Henry V . The country was fully pacified except the undomptable Mont Saint Michel.
Scales was looking for a place near Mt St Michel to start big operations. He settled in Granville, raised the first wall, dig a trench, still called "la Tranchée des anglais". Then he starts building the first walls of Notre-Dame church.
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1442
Mt St Michel soldiers, got hold, by surprise of the English fortress
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1445
Charles VI of France signed a charter of freedom. The Saturday market still in use un the town centre was one of the liberties awarded.
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1695, 1803
The English fleet bombed Granville. The fortress walls are still stuffed with English iron bullets.
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Granville was a corsair nest : Beaubriand Lévesque, Hautmesnil -Hugon and Pléville-Lepelley whose statue overlooks the port.
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