Baisieux (Belgium)
See also: Baisieux
Baisieux is a section of the common Belgian of Quiévrain, located in Wallonia in the Province of Hainaut.
It was a common to whole share before the fusion of the communes of 1977.
Its inhabitants are not of Basiliens as in common the homonym Frenchwoman of Baisieux, it also on the Franco-Belgian border, but of Basigomiens.
Localization
Commune of Quiévrain, canton of Dour, district of Mons, Province of Hainaut, Walloon region, diocese of Turned, in the past Cambric archdiocese (F), crossed by the Smallone and the Largeone, while a third river, Aunelle, is used as border since 1779 with France.
History
The oldest mentions of the village of Baisieux in the form of " Basiacum" find themselves in a charter of 965. A Roman roadway, the Chaussée Brunehaut of Bavay to Turned, crosses is village.A good beautiful country village, grouping farms which reign on 750 hectares of meadows and grounds, about halfway between Quiévrain and Angre.
On the road of Quiévrain, a main forest, " The Wood of Deduit" , an oasis of heat greenery, breaks a little the monotony of the landscape.
the Seigniory of Baisieux, sprinkled by both Honnelles, was held initially by a family of this name before passing to the family of Quiévrain and the other lines which had then the ground deQuiévrain (Aspremont, Lalaing, Brittany, Croy, Arenberg). Part of the territory of the village was part moreover of the Seigniory of Hensies.
The site which it occupied calls the pre one of Maugré (bad liking).
The history of the village abounds in rather dramatic and calamitous facts. In 1364, the castle of Maugré sheltered Siger II of Enghien, one of the principal Lords of Hainaut. The Duke Albert of Bavaria, regent of the County of Hainaut, made there stop on March 18th of this year, to lead to the palate of Quesnoy where it had the distinct head.
The fortress of Maugré was besieged and taken in 1396 by the same Duke Albert and in 1423 by his Jacqueline little girl of Bavaria.
The Duke of Alençon made it shave in 1578.
August 26th, 1649, Baisieux was invaded by the troops of Louis XIV which plundered it and there reflect fire: two houses only escaped the disaster.
The village in photographs
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