Outreval manor 16th century
The name d’Outreval was first mentioned in 1474. The d’Outreval fief was then held by a squire named Jehan Cordhomme.
A century later, Jacques I of Baillehache acquired it either by purchase or through a dowry. As Seigneur of Rubercy and d’Outreval, he commanded the construction of this seignorial manor along the road towards Caen then called ‘the King’s Road’, with the building sitting ‘upon a plot of land within the Ten Acres Woods, with a dovecote, the whole property enclosed by high walls and double moats.’
The manor remained a Baillehache family property until its purchase by Nicolas-François Le Cocq, Seigneur of Beuville, in 1752. Upon his father’s death in 1770, the youngest son, Jacques-Nicolas Le Cocq, inherited the domain of Biéville. He then ordered another château to be built only a few dozen meters away from the manor of d’Outreval. His son, the Chevalier de Rubercy, sold the entirety of the Biéville domain to the Count of Sourdeval five years later.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the manor was turned into a farm with the addition of servants’ quarters surrounding the yard. The Vogt family acquired the estate (which included both the manor and the château) in 1917 and lived within its walls until its requisition by the German occupying troops during World War II. After severe damage in 1944, the château underwent a restoration process by the owners, who preferred the comfort of the manor.
