In Carteret is to be found a church built in the 11c,and enlarged and altered in modern times,the local Hospital is in the best preserved portions of the Castle founded in the 10c. Renaud went with the 1st Crusade 1096-99 .with Robert Duke of Normandy
at this time he was carring a shield with the Blazon of Gules en fess fusier argent etiqueter azure, which proves his father was still alive in 1099, donne l’eglise de St Germain de Carteret au Mont St Michel 1125.
Saint Ouens taken by Renaud by the sword and the Manor belived to be then at or by Le Eglise St Marie de Lecq fonded the establishment of the Jersey line of de Carteret.
Le Ville de Carteret
The Castle was given by Edward the iii to one of his most notable warriors,Sir John Chandos, in 1346 by whom it was enlarged, and the tower was built, Edward had landed on 12th July at the Cotentin peninsular to begin the Crecy Campaign .Outside the town is the abbey church of St Sauveur,fonded in 1088.21