Auvillars (French pronunciation: [ovilaʁ] ⓘ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of north-western France.
Mr Floquet told of a curious trial that argued that Robert de Tournebu, lord of Auvillars, maltreated a cleric of the priory of Beaumont-en-Auge in the year 1342.
He was sentenced to a fine of 400 livres, a huge sum for that time (see History of the Parliament of Normandy).
A century later Richard de Tournebu more usefully employed his vigour to support a heroic siege against the captains of the invader Henry V. His capitulation on 7 August 1417 was devised on condition that showed the Norman barons, despite the lack of organization where the invasion had landed, had not made a capable resistance that could be respected.
Just as the castle was to be evacuated Henry hastened to donate it to the Earl of Salisbury, his cousin, to be sure of its conservation (25 September 1417).
The head of this family was one of the principal officers of the Duke of Lorraine and his daughter, Louise Marie de Miou, married Pierre Dauvet of Tréguy.
The Dauvet family were nobility from Picardy who were allied to Breze, Montmorency, Saint-Simon, Bethune, Chabannes, etc.
Its door was lined with gold and silver in 6 pieces: the first charged with a black lion passant in bend.
In 1700 Sir Peter Dauvet de Tréguy gave grassland to the poor of Auvillars which was located at Druval and Rumesnil.
The children of the two parishes of Auvillars and Repentigny were educated there free by a sister of Providence from the Lisieux house.
The side walls each have two flat buttresses inside which is a newly built gallery leading to the sacristy placed behind the choir.
The fourth is a little less wide and lined with a simple bevel and dates from first half of the 16th century when the nave was extended by one bay.
The portal, which protrudes toward the middle, is pierced by a semi-circular door flanked by two columns and topped with two windows, now blocked, and decorated with prismatic mouldings.
The curved form is pierced at the same time by an oculus and surmounted by a square tower built in timber and covered with slate.
Several parts of this tombstone have been mutilated but the statue is well preserved and perfectly sculpted, it was once under an arched arcade on the southern wall.
When the foundations of the sacristy were dug a sword was found at a depth of 2.5 metres that appears to date back to ancient times.
The pouillé' (Ecclesiastical register) of Lisieux shows that the Lord in the 14th century was dominus Robertus de Tournebut.
The chevet on the right is flanked by two buttresses and finishes, as with the portal, with a very sloping curve surmounted by an antefix cross.