Burgraviate of Lille

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The Burgraviate of Lille ( French : Châtellenie de Lille , Dutch : Kasselrij Rijsel ) was a former administrative district of the feudal county of Flanders . The area of ​​the Burgrave of Lille was ruled by a so-called burgrave or castellan (French: châtelain ), who was originally appointed to this office by the Counts of Flanders as a kind of administrative officer . However, this office was hereditary from the start.

The eponymous capital of the burgraviate was the city ​​of Lille , which is now in northern France . The city of Lille developed around a castle that was built in the middle of the 11th century by Count Baldwin V of Flanders and replaced a small building from the century before. This castle was placed under the command of a burgrave (French: Châtelains ) by Baldwin . The French King Philip II conquered Lille in 1214, but returned the city to the Count of Flanders. After the war of 1297 it remained under the administration of a royal bailiff (French: Bailli ) until 1369 . The burgraviate was sold in 1305 to the Duke of Burgundy , who got the city back in 1369 (as Count of Flanders).

The area of ​​the Burgraviate of Lille corresponds roughly to today's Arrondissement of Lille . Since the French-Dutch language border in the region ran a little further south in the Middle Ages than it is today, the territory of the Burgraviate of Lille originally extended into the Dutch- speaking area .

Burgrave of Lille

  • Roger I, † 1098, Châtelain de Lille
  • Roger II, 1096/1130 attests, his son
  • Robert I, 1127/43 attested, his son
  • Renaud I, Châtelain de Lille, testified in 1133, probably his brother
  • Roger III, Châtelain de Lille, testified in 1145, probably his brother
  • Robert II, Châtelain de Lille 1146/47, his son
  • Renaud II, Châtelain de Lille 1149/63, his brother
  • Hugo, Châtelain de Lille 1166/69, his brother
  • Jean I, † probably 1200, Châtelain de Lille 1174, his son
  • Roger IV, † before 1230, Châtelain de Lille, his son
  • Guillaume Le Plouich, † 1235, Châtelain de Lille, his brother
  • Jean II, † 1244, his nephew, Châtelain de Péronne et de Lille
  • Jean III, † probably 1276, Châtelain de Lille, his son, sold the Châtellenie Péronne to Guillaume de Longuval, who sold it to King Louis IX. resold
  • Jean IV., † 1291/92, Châtelain de Lille, his son
  • Roger V, Châtelain de Lille 1299/1302, his brother
  • Jean V., X 1302, Châtelain de Lille, son of Jeans IV.
  • Guyotte, † 1338, his sister, Châtelaine de Lille until 1305, sold the Châtellenie Lille to the Duke of Burgundy ; ∞ Waléran II , Seigneur de Ligny, de Roussy et de Beauvoir, † 1354 ( House Luxemburg-Ligny )
  • Guy , † 1371, whose grandson, Comte de Ligny, Seigneur de Roussy et de Beauvoir;
  • Waléran III. , † 1415, his son, Comte de Ligny et de Saint-Pol, Connétable of France
  • Johanna von Luxemburg, † 1407, whose daughter, Châtelaine de Lille, daughter of Walram III. of Luxembourg , Count of Saint-Pol and Ligny; ∞ Antoine de Bourgogne († 1415), Duke of Brabant and Limburg ( House of Burgundy )

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