Sillé-le-Guillaume

Commune in Pays de la Loire, France

(2020–2026) Gérard Galpin^[1]Area12.90 km² (4.98 sq mi)Population2,195 • Density170/km² (440/sq mi)DemonymSilléensTime zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal codeElevation115–260 m (377–853 ft)Websitewww.sille-le-guillaume.fr¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Sillé-le-Guillaume (French pronunciation: [sije lə ɡijom]) is a commune in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays de la Loire in north-western France, named after Guillaume de Sillé.

In the fifteenth century the lord of the manor was Sir John Fastolf of Caister in Norfolk (1380–1459), following the English conquest of Normandy and Maine.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	2,528	—
1975	2,777	+1.35%
1982	2,863	+0.44%
1990	2,583	−1.28%
1999	2,585	+0.01%
2007	2,358	−1.14%
2012	2,375	+0.14%
2017	2,305	−0.60%
Source: INSEE[3]

See also

• Communes of the Sarthe department
• Parc naturel régional Normandie-Maine

References

Bibliography

• Barker, Juliet (2009). Conquest: The English Kingdom of France 1417–1450. London: Little, Brown.
• Cooper, Stephen (2010). The Real Falstaff, Sir John Fastolf and the Hundred Years War. Barnsley: Pen and Sword.