Amiénois

The Amiénois is the name of part of High the Picardy, which occupies today the medium of the department of the Somme.

Amiénois formed under the Carolingiens a county which contained Amiens, Conty, Pitch-of-Picardy, Doullens, Picquigny, Rubempré.

The counts of Amiens were vassal of the bishop until 1185. Philippe-Auguste links the county with the crown then, but Charles VII yielded it by treaty to Philippe the Good, duke of Burgundy in 1435. The death of Charles Bold the returned it to Louis XI in 1477, and it was ensured to him by the Traité of Arras of 1482.

Communes comprising Amiénois in their name

Currently, 4 communes of the department of the Sum are concerned:

This denomination does not have other particular reason only that to avoid any confusion with other communes, including same department, like Acheux-in-Vimeu and Be worth-on-Nap. It is not therefore advisable to see in this “suffix” a common point particular to these 4 localities, not besides to seek any of them reason in the report (mere chance) that 3d' between them just forms practically a perfect straight line according to a South-western/North-eastern axis crossing the river Somme downstream from Amiens.

See too

Amiens

Sources

P. Lami - “ (Summarized) history of Picardy ”, 326 pages (1825, reprint Editions of the Bastion 1998)

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