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Pagus Lomacensis
The gau or pagus of Lomme, often referred to using Latin, Pagus Lomacensis, or German Lommegau, was an early Austrasian Frankish territorial division, which included the fort of Namur, and evolved into the later County of Namur. The oldest Latin spellings were Laumensis or Lomensis.
In modern terms Lomme lay in what is now central Wallonia in French-speaking Belgium. It corresponds roughly with the part of the modern Province of Namur which is west of the Meuse. It also stretched into what is now Walloon Brabant in the north, the Belgian Province of Hainaut in the west, and to the south, into what is now France.
The pagus Lomacensis had two major subpagi: the pagus Darnuensis, and the pagus Sambriensis. Today, both of these are in the Belgian province of Hainaut. Records show that places within these sub-divisions of Lomme could also be described as being in Lomme, and they might not have had exact definitions.
These two subpagi overlapped near what is now Charleroi, which was not an important city in the Middle Ages, and was known as Charnoy.
Léon Vanderkindere proposed that these were older, and that the pagus Lomacensis represents a fusion of several such older pagi. However more recent writers such as Roland and Nonn see no evidence for this.
There was also one mention of a pagus of Namur in the Lomme area in 832, but Namur was not mentioned again as an important jurisdiction until the late tenth century when it started to be referred to as a county.
Before the counts of Namur, there is very little clear information about early counts with counties in the Lommegau. However, many of the 9th and 10th century documents which mention Lomme simply describe it as the county of Lomme (comitatus Laumensis), often mentioning no other pagus. This implies strongly that Lomme was considered to be one single county. Nonn lists 11 such records between 862 and 979. Some notable examples show the way in which the mentions of the strategic fort at Namur increased:
After the 10th century, the title of Count of Namur was used, making the gau names less useful.
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Pagus Lomacensis
The gau or pagus of Lomme, often referred to using Latin, Pagus Lomacensis, or German Lommegau, was an early Austrasian Frankish territorial division, which included the fort of Namur, and evolved into the later County of Namur. The oldest Latin spellings were Laumensis or Lomensis.
In modern terms Lomme lay in what is now central Wallonia in French-speaking Belgium. It corresponds roughly with the part of the modern Province of Namur which is west of the Meuse. It also stretched into what is now Walloon Brabant in the north, the Belgian Province of Hainaut in the west, and to the south, into what is now France.
The pagus Lomacensis had two major subpagi: the pagus Darnuensis, and the pagus Sambriensis. Today, both of these are in the Belgian province of Hainaut. Records show that places within these sub-divisions of Lomme could also be described as being in Lomme, and they might not have had exact definitions.
These two subpagi overlapped near what is now Charleroi, which was not an important city in the Middle Ages, and was known as Charnoy.
Léon Vanderkindere proposed that these were older, and that the pagus Lomacensis represents a fusion of several such older pagi. However more recent writers such as Roland and Nonn see no evidence for this.
There was also one mention of a pagus of Namur in the Lomme area in 832, but Namur was not mentioned again as an important jurisdiction until the late tenth century when it started to be referred to as a county.
Before the counts of Namur, there is very little clear information about early counts with counties in the Lommegau. However, many of the 9th and 10th century documents which mention Lomme simply describe it as the county of Lomme (comitatus Laumensis), often mentioning no other pagus. This implies strongly that Lomme was considered to be one single county. Nonn lists 11 such records between 862 and 979. Some notable examples show the way in which the mentions of the strategic fort at Namur increased:
After the 10th century, the title of Count of Namur was used, making the gau names less useful.