Ternois
The Ternois or Pays du Ternois ( Flemish : Ternaasland ) is a landscape in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region in northern France with the center of Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise on the Ternoise river .
history
In prehistory and ancient times, this region was inhabited by the Celtic Morin people and the place Terwaan was their settlement, which was the center. Terwaan later became the seat of the bishop of the Terwaan diocese.
When the Counts of Flanders expanded their territory to the south in the 9th century, Ternaasland and Terwaan also became part of the county. Ternaasland was a province that was part of Flanders, along with the counties of Bruges, Waas, Gent, Mepsegouw, Boonse and Artois . The Latin name was Pagus Taruanensis, Taroanensis or Tervanensis or Land van Terwaan in Dutch .
Prince Philip of Alsace became a tutor of Crown Prince Philip II Augustus , whom he married in 1180 to his niece Isabella of Hainaut , giving him the Artois as a dowry. The king separated his new territory from Flanders in 1191 and later incorporated it into the County of Artois. This meant that the Ternaasland fell to France.
When Countess Margaretha von Male married Philip the Bold , Duke of Burgundy , in 1369 , she brought Flanders with her as a dowry. The Duke himself inherited the county of Artois in 1384, so the two parts were reunited, now as two separate domains. When Duke Charles the Bold tried to expand his empire a century later and thus came into conflict with King Ludwig XI. fell by France, a number of skirmishes between them culminated in the Battle of Nancy in 1477, where Charles was killed in a personal duel with Louis. This was the immediate end of the Burgundian era and the duchy's independence aspirations.
Later the name Ternaasland was only used for the southeastern part of the county of Saint-Pol around Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise. This last area (Ternaasland in the narrower sense) had Hesdin (Heusden) and Montreuil-sur-Mer (Monsterole) as capitals. The area was dependent on the County of Flanders for a long time and remained in the hands of the Campdavaine family from the beginning of the 11th to the end of the 12th century, who then became the House of Châtillon and the House of Luxembourg.
language
Originally in Terna Asland Old Dutch spoken, but this area has long been Frenchified . You can find toponyms for the Germanic outcomes -inghem (e.g. Matringhem) and -hem (e.g. Dohem, Westrehem) or Gallo-Roman toponyms with a Germanic (Dutch) sound development, e.g. B. place names on -ecq (ues), which go back to -acum, and in a Roman sound development -ai or -igny, z. B. Ecquedecques, Coyecques.
Coordinates: 50 ° 22 ′ 45 ″ N , 2 ° 20 ′ 5 ″ E