{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2023}} {{Expand French|topic=geo|date=February 2010|Saint-Maudez}} {{Infobox French commune |name = Saint-Maudez |native name = Sant-Maodez |commune status = [[Communes of France|Commune]] |image = Saint-Maudez-rue-Peignehel-eglise-Saint-Maudez-byRundvald.jpg |caption = A general view of Saint-Maudez |image coat of arms = Blason ville fr St Maudez.svg |coordinates = {{coord|48.4533|-2.1811|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |INSEE = 22315 |postal code = 22980 |arrondissement = Dinan |canton = Plancoët |mayor = Fabrice Rivallan<ref>{{cite web|title=Répertoire national des élus: les maires|url=https://www.data.gouv.fr/en/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e503|website=data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises|date=9 August 2021|language=fr}}</ref> |term = 2020&ndash;2026 |intercommunality = [[Dinan Agglomération]] |elevation min m = 39 |elevation max m = 104 |area km2 = 5.09 |population = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}} |population date = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}} |population footnotes = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}} }}

'''Saint-Maudez''' ({{IPA|fr|sɛ̃ mode}}; {{langx|br|Sant-Maodez}}) is a [[Communes of France|commune]] in the [[Côtes-d'Armor]] [[Departments of France|department]] of [[Brittany (administrative region)|Brittany]] in northwestern [[France]]. It is named after the Breton [[Saint Maudez]].

==History== St. Maudez is the tenth son of the King of Ireland Erelus (or Erelea or Ardea) and Gentuse or Getive, his wife. Saint-Maudez landed in Brittany, around 528, not far from Dol, with his sister Saint Juvette and two disciples, Saint Botmel and Saint Tudy.

== Heraldic == Blazon = Carved: 1st of silver sown with shadows of ermine speckles with a line of azure, a lion gules crowned with gold debruising, 2nd of azure sown shadows of ermine speckles and at Saint Maudet bypassed halo issuant from the point and holding his episcopal crozier, all in shadow with the silver line.

==Population==

{{Historical populations |align=left| 1962|184| 1968|236| 1975|229| 1982|207| 1990|222| 1999|226| 2008|281| 2011|307| 2016|293| }}

Inhabitants of Saint-Maudez are called ''maudéziens'' in French.

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==Places and monuments== <gallery> File:Eglise-Saint-Maudez-de-Saint-Maudez-Croix-des-Templiers-enclos-paroissial-cimetiere-byRundvald.jpg </gallery> * The church Saint-Maudez, the millennial yew,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://krapooarboricole.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/lif-millenaire-de-saint-maudez-cotes-darmor/|title = L'If millénaire de Saint-Maudez (Côtes d'Armor)|date = 18 November 2010}}</ref> its parish enclosure and the cross of the [[Templar Knights]] (registered in the inventory of historical monuments on 28/10/1926 under the reference PA000896446) * The Orrhins Crosses (see below) * The Gouyon fountain <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fontainesdefrance.info/fontaines/la-fontaine-de-lheurmel-ou-fontaine-de-gouyon/|title = Fontaines de France}}</ref> * The Thaumatz Castle (private) * Many old remarkable houses

<gallery> Image:Saint-Maudez-Croix-monumentale-Calvaire-des-Templiers-face-nord-ouest-byRundvald.jpg|Croix St Maudez Image:Croix St Maudez 2.png|Croix St Maudez Image:Croix St Maudez 3.png|Croix St Maudez Image:Croix St Maudez 4.png|Croix St Maudez Image:Croix St Maudez 5.png|Croix St Maudez Image:Croix St Maudez 7.png|Croix St Maudez Image:Croix St Maudez 6.png|Croix St Maudez </gallery>

==See also== * [[Communes of the Côtes-d'Armor department]]

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==External links== {{commons category}} * {{Search Mérimée|22315}} * [https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20210711104815/http://www.ign.fr/affiche_rubrique.asp?rbr_id=1087 Saint Maudez on the French National Institute of Geography] * [https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb15251313n Saint Maudez on the French National Library website] * [https://data.bnf.fr/fr/12250991/15251313/saint-maudez__cotes-d_armor__france_/ Saint Maudez - BNF]

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