Mortain

The County of Mortain was a Norman fief centred on Mortain above the River Cance. In 1337 it belonged to Joan II of Navarre and her husband Philip of Évreux.

Joan died of the Black Death in 1349. During the Hundred Years’ War Peter of Évreux held Mortain from 1401, and it later passed to Charles of Le Maine in 1449, and entered the royal domain in 1481.