Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise

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Coordinates: 50°22′47″N 2°20′06″E / 50.37972, 2.335

Commune of Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise
Location
Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise (France)
Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise
Administration
Country France
Region Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Department Pas-de-Calais
Arrondissement Arras
Canton Canton of Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise
(chef-lieu)
Intercommunality Communauté de communes du Saint-Polois
Mayor Maurice Louf
(2001-2008)
Statistics
Elevation 82 m–149 m
(avg. 87 m)
Land area¹ 8.24 km²
Population²
(1999)		 5,220
 - Density 633/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code 62767/ 62130
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.
France

Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise is a commune of northern France, chief town of the canton of Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise, arrondissement of Arras, in the of Pas-de-Calais département. Population (1999): 5,548 in the commune, and 14,939 in the canton.

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[edit] History

The county of Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise, usually referred to as just Saint-Pol, was originally a stronghold of the Counts of Flanders and was established as a county in the late 9th century. When the county passed out of the family of the Flemish counts, it remained subject to the Count of Flanders as his vassals until 1180. It became subjects to France, then Artois (1237 -1329), then France again until it ceased to exist as a county and was annexed to France in 1702.

Saint-Pol was first controlled by the Flemish counts, then by the family known as Candavne from early in the 11th century. In 1205 the county passed to the seigneurs of Châtillon through marriage, and remained with this dynasty until 1360 when it passed to the Luxembourg dynasty. Around 1487 the county passed to the Capetian-Bourbon-Vendôme dynasty through marriage, then to the Longueville-Neuchâtel dynasty from around 1563. In 1702 it came under direct rule of France.

In the Middle Ages, several of the Counts of Saint-Pol were active in the Crusades.

[edit] List of counts

[edit] Flanders dynasty

[edit] Unknown dynasty

  • Rudolf (883-?)

[edit] Flanders dynasty (restored)

[edit] Candavne dynasty

  • Roger I (c. 1023 - 1067)
  • Hughes I (1067 - 1070)
  • Guy I (1070 - 1083)
  • Hugues II (1083 - 1130)
  • Hugues III (1130 - 1141)
  • Enguerrand (1141 - 1150)
  • Anselme (1150 - 1174), son of Hugues III
  • Hugues IV (1174 - 1205)
Coat of arms of the Châtillon family

[edit] Châtillon dynasty

  • Gauchier (1205–1219), married Elisabeth, daughter of Hugues IV
  • Guy II (1219–1226), son of Gauchier
  • Hugues V (1226–1249), son of Gauchier. Count of Blois (1230–1241)
  • Guy III (1249–1289), son of Hugues V
  • Hugues VI (1289–1292), son of Guy III. Count of Blois (1283–1307)
  • Guy IV (1292–1317), son of Guy III
  • Jean I (1317–1344), son of Guy IV
  • Guy V (1344–1360), son of Jean I

[edit] Luxembourg dynasty

  • Guy VI (1360–1371), married Mahaut, daughter of Jean I
  • Waleran (1371–1415)
  • Philip (1415–1430)
  • Jeanne (1430)
  • Pierre I (1430–1433)
  • Louis I (1433–1475)
  • Jean II (1475–1476)
  • Pierre II (1476–1482)
  • Marie (1482–1547)

[edit] Capet-Bourbon-Vendome dynasty

  • Francois I (1487–1495) jure uxoris
  • Francois II (1495–1545)
  • Francois III (1545–1546)
  • Marie II (1546–1601), succession disputed by the following:
    • John III (1557)
    • Francois IV (1560–1563)
    • Eleonore (1563–1573)
  • Francois V (1601–1631)
  • Henry (1631–1663)
  • Jean Louis (1663–1668) and (1672–1694)
  • Charles-Paris (1668–1672)
  • Marie III (1694–1705)

[edit] Miscellaneous

Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise was the birthplace of Pierre Repp (1909-1986), humorist and actor.

Coordinates: 50°23′N, 2°20′E

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