- Source: French Hainaut
French Hainaut (French: Hainaut français [ɛno fʁɑ̃sɛ]) is one of two areas in France that form the département du Nord, making up its eastern part. It corresponds roughly with the Arrondissement of Avesnes-sur-Helpe (east), the Arrondissement of Cambrai (south-west) and the Arrondissement of Valenciennes (north-west).
Until the 17th century, it was an integral part of the County of Hainaut, ruled by the House of Valois-Burgundy and later by the House of Habsburg. In a series of wars between France and Spain, this southern part of Hainaut was conquered by France, together with the adjacent Cambrésis, or Bishopric of Cambrai, to its south-west, and southern Flanders, which borders the English Channel, to its west. Together, these formed the French province of Flanders which, following the French Revolution, became the new Nord département.
References
Gilbert of Mons, Chronicle of Hainaut, Boydell Press, 2005.
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- Philippa dari Hainaut
- Cuesmes
- Tournai
- Franck Ribéry
- Guido de Bres
- Raoul I dari Vermandois
- Elisabeth dari Vermandois
- Société Franco-Belge
- Jan van Eyck
- Richard dari Bourgogne
- French Hainaut
- Hainaut
- County of Hainaut
- Hainaut Province
- French Flanders
- Count of Hainaut
- Nord (French department)
- Philippa of Hainault
- Leuze-en-Hainaut
- Seventeen Provinces
