Originally Merville takes its name from a Gallo-Roman site "the villa of Omer" which was replaced in the Middle Ages by a fortified village.
The village was destroyed first by the Black Prince in 1359 and then rebuilt on the site of the present castle.
But he was moved again in the eighteenth. Indeed, Henry Augustus Chalvet Rochemonteix, who owned a castle in Merville, then decided to build a new home. He made the people move, raze the village and the two castles that were there and fill the old moat! Thus was born the castle we know today.
