Quierzy-sur-Oise
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| Commune of Quierzy | |
| Location | |
| Longitude | 3° 08' 39" E |
| Latitude | 49° 34' 17" N |
| Administration | |
|---|---|
| Country | France |
| Region | Picardie |
| Department | Aisne |
| Arrondissement | Laon |
| Canton | Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique |
| Intercommunality | none |
| Mayor | Olivier Timmerman (2001-2008) |
| Statistics | |
| Altitude | 38 m–73 m (avg. 45 m) |
| Land area¹ | 8.09 km² |
| Population² (1999) |
335 |
| - Density (1999) | 41/km² |
| Miscellaneous | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 02631/ 02300 |
| ¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 mi² or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| ² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel). | |
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Quierzy-sur-Oise is a French commune in the département of Aisne, in the région of Picardie, straddling the Oise River between Noyon and Chauny.
[edit] History
The peaceful village was the site of a major villa or palatium in the Merovingian and Carolingian eras, and the site of assemblies of the Frankish nobles, of synods of bishops and abbots and other important events. Here Charles Martel died, 22 October 741, and it was probably at Quierzy that Charlemagne was born the following 2 April.
The name of the place appears in documents as Cariciacum, Carisiacum, Charisagum, Karisiacum. Of the royal residence of the Merovingians and the house of Pepin, only traces of earthworks remain, in fields outside Quierzy, in the direction of Manicamp. The Château de Quierzy on the bank of the Oise, rebuilt in the fifteenth century as the fortress of the bishops of Noyon, survives as a single tower.
Quierzy was already a significant stronghold of Neustria at the opening of the seventh century. In events recorded in the Chronicle of Fredegar, when Protadius, the mayor of the palace of Burgundy and the noble lover of Brunhilda, the grandmother of and regent for King Theuderic II. Brunhilda pressured her grandson to go to war against her other grandson, Theudebert II of Austrasia, but when at Quierzy in 606, Theuderic assembled the army, the men did not want to fight their fellow Franks: Protadius was promptly killed by the warriors and the king forced to sign a treaty.
In January 754 Pepin the Short received Pope Stephen II at Quierzy, and his decision was taken to adopt the Roman liturgy and Gregorian chant in his domaines. The Donation of Pippin is alleged to have been made at Quierzy to Pope Stephen II, granting him the Exarchate of Ravenna. For his part the pope legitimized the Carolingians. Charlemagne confirmed this donation in 774, in Rome.
Pepin spent the winter of 762 at Quierzy. Charlemagne convoked an assembly of the nobles in January 775, in preparation of his invasion of Saxony. In 804 Pope Leo III met Charlemagne at Quierzy before proceeding to Aachen. In December 842 Charles the Bald married Ermentrude d'Orléans at Quierzy.
In the ninth century several councils of Quierzy debated contentious issues. At the synod of 853, the famous four decrees or chapters (capitula) drawn up by Hincmar, archbishop of Reims, on the questions of predestination were published, and Gottschalk condemned.
The Capitulary of Quierzy was promulgated in June 877[1] by the emperor Charles the Bald, comprising a series of measures for safeguarding the administration of his realm during his second Italian expedition, as well as directions for his son Louis the Stammerer, who was entrusted with the government during his father's absence. A great concourse of lords was assembled to hear it read. In this document Charles took elaborate precautions against Louis the German, whom he had every reason to distrust. He forbids him to sojourn in certain palaces and in certain forests, and compels him to swear not to despoil his stepmother Richilde of her allodial lands and benefices.
At the same time Charles refuses to allow Louis to nominate his candidates to the countships left vacant in the emperor's absence. The capitulary thus served as a guarantee to the aristocracy that the general usage would be followed in the existing circumstances, and also as a means of reassuring the counts who had accompanied the emperor into Italy as to the fate of their benefices.
In the following century, however, Viking raids destroyed the palatium and Hugh Capet gave his lands at Quierzy to the bishop of Noyon, who built a fortress to serve in confrontations with the powerful lords of Coucy.In ensuing centuries, the lands of Quierzy passed successively to the Chérisy, the Montmorency, the Roye, the Halluin, the Brûlart and Bussy-Rabutin families, until the French Revolution.
[edit] Notes
- ^ A former capitulary of Charles the Bald was promulgated at Quierzy on February 14, 857, and aimed especially at the repression of brigandage.
