County of Fagnolle

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The county of Fagnolle (also often Fagnolles ) in the east of Hainaut was a small area in the Ardennes at the end of the 18th century , consisting of the place Fagnolle (now part of Philippeville ) and 25 square kilometers of surrounding area, an enclave within the diocese of Liège .

history

The ruins of the medieval castle (12th century)

Around 1215 Fagnolle belonged to a Jacques, a little later to the Rumigny family , without any relatives being identified. The fiefdom was inherited in different families until it finally came to the House of Ligne in the 17th century . One of the most important owners of Fagnolle at this time was the heiress Marie d'Enghien, who married Aubert Le Flamenc ( Le Flamenc house ) and was the mistress of Louis de Valois, duc d'Orléans : Marie and Louis are the parents of Jean de Dunois , the bastard of Orléans .

On July 20, 1770, the barony of Fagnolle was made an imperial countship by Emperor Joseph II and the owner, Prince Claude Lamoral von Ligne, immediately applied for his admission to the seat and vote because of this imperial direct possession in the Lower Rhine-Westphalian Empire , which was due to the clumsiness political decision-making was only approved with a document dated October 31, 1786, after the matricular contribution for the imperial county of Fagnolle to the imperial and district needs was set at a simplum of 12 guilders and the contribution to the maintenance of the imperial court at 13 Reichstaler 77 kreuzer. The prince was assigned the rank between the last (1715) included counties Kerpen and Lommersum and the imperial city of Cologne.

After this clarification of membership in the district, admission to the Westphalian Imperial Counts' College - applied for as early as 1772 - made progress; In 1787/1788, Prince Ligne's admission to the college of the Westphalian imperial counts was approved by both parties - the Protestant and the Catholic. With an imperial decree of March 21, 1789, the admission of the prince to the Reichstag was ordered , but the necessary resolution of the three colleges of the Reichstag on this was suspended because of the death of Emperor Joseph II and the brief reign of Emperor Leopold II. The two imperial elections and also the outbreak of the French Revolution prevented the decree from being implemented at short notice; The Count of Fagnolle is then included in the membership list from 1792.

In the same year France occupied the southern Netherlands. The county was withdrawn from the House of Ligne, dissolved and the area was added to the Ardennes department . The Prince of Ligne was compensated with the Edelstetten Monastery in the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of February 25, 1803 . In addition, he now even received a virile vote in the Imperial Council of Princes , but the penultimate one, and thus received the 126th rank, ahead of the Duke of Looz , because of Rheina-Wolbeck . On May 22, 1804, Prince Charles Joseph de Ligne († 1814) sold the county to Prince Esterházy von Galantha, but remained a personal member of the Imperial College of Counts.

Through the Second Peace of Paris (1815) Fagnolle came to the Netherlands and was added to the province of Namur (county), and finally became part of Belgium in 1830, when the Netherlands was again divided.

The lords of Fagnolle

  • Jacques I, Sire de Fagnolle, around 1215

Rumigny house

  • Hugues I. de Rumigny, attested in 1218/49, in 1249 Seigneur de Fagnolle; ∞ Marie, attested in 1235
  • Hugues II. De Rumigny, 1235/68 attested, his son, Seigneur de Fagnolle; ∞ Marie, attested in 1268
  • Robert de Fagnolle, 1279/1305 attested, his son, Seigneur de Fagnolle, de Wiège et de Rieu  ; ∞ Guyotte Pelicornes, attested in 1279
  • Hugues III. de Fagnolle, 1312/18 attested, his son, Seigneur de Fagnolle et de Wiège
  • Hugues IV. De Fagnolle, 1331/51 attested, † before 1357, his son, Seigneur de Fagnolle; ∞ Jeanne de Villers-le-Ville
  • Jacques de Fagnolle, † before 1357, his son, Seigneur de Villers-le-Ville; ∞ Marie d'Enghien, attested in 1357/70, probably daughter of Gilles d'Enghien
  • Marie de Fagnolle; his daughter, heiress of Fagnolle, Wiège and Villers-le-Ville; ∞ Aubert de Cany, 1428 attested
  • Jacquemin de Rumigny, 1313/27 attested, † after 1327, brother of Hugues III., To Ranwez and ¼ Mirwart ; ∞ Margareta von Mirwart, attested to Sorcy, 1282/1315, daughter of Heinrich von Mirwart and Beatrix de Houffalize
  • Marie de Rumigny, † 1333, to Fagnolle; ∞ Gérard I. d'Enghien, Châtelain de Mons , Seigneur d ' Havré , † 1361

House Enghien

  • Gérard II. D'Enghien, † after 1385, their son, Châtelain de Mons, Seigneur d'Havré, de Fagnolle etc.; ∞ Jeanne de Barbançon, daughter of Nicolas and Marguerite d'Agimont
  • Gérard III. d'Enghien, † 1423/27, his son, Châtelain de Mons, Seigneur d'Havré etc.; ∞ Jeanne de Seraing, zu Seraing , Château Warfusée , Walhain etc., attested in 1382/1413, daughter of Thierry IV. And Maria von Looz zu Walhain
  • Gérard IV. D'Enghien, † 1420, his son, Seigneur de Warfusée, Seraing, Presles , Walhain etc.,
  • Jacques d'Enghien, † 1427, his uncle, Châtelain de Mons, Seigneur d'Havré, de Fagnolle etc.; ∞ I Jacqueline de Saint-Aubert, † 1427; ∞ II Marie de Roucy, † 1416, daughter of Simon , Count von Roucy ( House of Pierrepont ), and Marie de Châtillon
  • Marie (Yolande) d'Enghien, heiress of Fagnolle; ∞ Aubert Le Flamenc, attested in 1396 - Marie d'Enghien is the mistress of Louis de Valois, duc d'Orléans and the mother of Jean de Dunois , the "Bastard of Orléans"
  • Jeanne Le Flamenc, † 1470, heiress of Canny-sur-Matz , Fagnolle etc., daughter of Aubert Le Flamenc and Yolande d'Enghien; ∞
  • Jean III de Barbançon, † 1470, Seigneur de Jeumont , La Longueville et Werchin , Seneschal of Hainaut

House Barbançon

  • Jacques de Werchin, † before 1473, their son, Seigneur de Walincourt , de Blaregnies et de Fagnolle; ∞ Jacqueline de Moy, † after 1481, daughter of Colart
  • Nicolas de Werchin, † 1513, their son, Baron de Werchin et de Cysoing , Seigneur de Roubaix  ; ∞ Jolande of Luxemburg, Dame de Roubaix, † 1534, daughter of Jacques, Seigneur de Richebourg , Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece ( House Luxemburg-Ligny )
  • Jean de Werchin, † 1518, their son, Seigneur de Fagnolle
  • Pierre de Werchin, † 1556, his brother, Seigneur de Roubaix, Baron de Werchin, Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece (there: Pierre de Barbançon); ∞ Hélène de Vergy, † after 1551, daughter of Guillaume IV. And Anne de Rochechouart
  • Yolande, † 1593, her daughter, Dame de Werchin, de Roubaix, de Cysoing et d'Herzelles, Souveraine de Fagnolle; ∞ Hugues de Melun, 1st Prince d'Épinoy, X 1553
  • Charlotte, † 1571, Dame de Jeumont et de Fagnolle, their sister; ∞ I Charles de Henin; ∞ II Maximilien de Hénin-Liétard , † 1578, Seigneur de Beuvry , 1562 2nd Comte de Boussu

House Hénin

House Melun

  • Marie de Melun, † 1634, daughter of Yolande, heiress of Cysoing, Roubaix, Antoing, Burgraviate Gent; ∞ Lamoral Prince of Ligne, † 1624 (see below)

House Ligne

  • Lamoral, † 1624, 1st Prince of Ligne etc., Souverain de Fagnolle; ∞ Marie de Melun, † 1634 (see above)
  • Florent, † 1622, his son, 1st Prince d'Amblise
  • Albert Henri, † 1641, his son, 2nd Prince of Ligne, 2nd Prince d'Amblise et d'Épinoy, Souverain de Fagnolle etc.
  • Claude Lamoral I, † 1679, his brother, 3rd Prince of Ligne, 3rd Prince d'Amblise et d'Épinoy, Souverain de Fagnolle etc.
  • Henri Ernest, † 1702, his son, 4th Prince of Ligne, 4th Prince d'Amblise et d'Épinoy, Souverain de Fagnolle etc.
  • Antoine II. Joseph, † 1750, his son, 5th Prince of Ligne, 5th Prince d'Amblise et d'Épinoy, Souverain de Fagnolle etc.
  • Claude Lamoral II, † 1766, his brother, 6th Prince of Ligne, 6th Prince d'Amblise et d'Épinoy, Souverain de Fagnolle etc.
  • Charles Joseph de Ligne , † 1814, his son, July 22, 1770 Elevation of the rule of Fagnolle to an imperial county, March 8, 1789 Transfer of the name Ligne to the County of Fagnolle

literature

  • Gerhard Köbler : Historical lexicon of the German countries. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 7th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1 (keyword Fagnolle).
  • Detlev Schwennicke, European Family Tables Volume VII (1979) Plate 77 (Rumigny), Plate 78 (Enghien), Volume XIII (1990) Plate 32 (Barbançon), Volume 18 (1998) Plate 120 (Henin), Plate 98 (Ligne)

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