Falvy

Falvy is a common French, located in the department of the Somme and the area Picardy.

History

Some information is given by chronological order.

Apparently Falvy, like Nesle, finds its origins like Gallic village (certainty for Nesle, to check for Falvy).

About the year 1000 lived Yves, lord of Nesle, father of Ives and Dreux, lord of Nesle and Falvy. He was distinguished with the crusade and is qualified to vir fortis and princeps terrœ Galliarum Dogo de Nahella , father of Raoul, 1119, combined with the girl of Guillaume II, count de Soissons, and of Ade, heiress of this county, descended from the former counts de Vermandois, resulting from Charlemagne; from where Yves, lord of Nesle and Falvy, count de Soissons, without children of Yolande de Hainaut; Dreux, without children; Raoul, lord of the manor of Bruges, in Flanders; Thierry, archdeacon of CAMBRAY… Gertrude, heiress of Nesle, married Raoul de Clermony, which gave place to the second house of Nesle, known as of Clermont.

In general, the lords of Nesle and Falvy, with the XII and XIIIe centuries, are also tales of Soissons. One at that time notes also the occasional use of the name Néelle instead of Nesle.

Principal dates:

Roman Presence (turn of wood ordering the passage of the Somme)
Xe century: keep hones some on pile
Tenure of the counts de Vermandois
1097: Drogon lord of Nesle
11?? : Raoul I of Nesle, lord of Nesle and Falvy, gave in 1119 the mill of Falvy-on-Nap to the church of Saint-Quentin.
1135-1153: Raoul II of Nesle, lord of the manor of Bruges, appeared at the court of the count de Flandre. Had apparently died in 1157 since it is not made to mention of him in the will of the count his brother.
1146: Yves III of Soissons
1157: Yves de Nesle
1175: Church of Prémontrés
1177: Jean de Nesle, lord of the manor of Bruges after the death of his father, inherited the seigniories of Nesle, Falvy and Herelle this year. He was a large lord in the court of Flanders, from where he left dissatisfied in 1212. He withdrew himself in his grounds of Picardy, there died in 1214 and was buried in the abbey of Orcamp.
1214 (?) : Jean II of Nesle, that Ci probably died without descent, because it is his/her brother Raoul de Nesle (deceased before February 1225) who was the father of Jean III (of Nesle, of course). Note: this point remains to be confirmed.
1231: Jean de Nesle intervenes in March 1231 in a charter of Jean of Béthencourt, under lord dominating of a ground belonging to fire Symon de Coquerel over the way of Nesle to Béthencourt (see: Jürgen Klötgen, " A rare and new charter of Jean de Béthencourt (1231) " , in Re-examined Historical and Archaeological of Maine , Mans, 2005, t.CLVI, p.321-330).
1270: Jehan (or Jean) III of Nesle, lord of Falvy and Herelle, became count de Ponthieu by his second wife, was with her sons of the forwarding of the king Saint Louis in Africa the year 1270, went in 1271 with twelve knights of its company, of which there were three of them bannerets, following king Philips the Bold one against the count de Foix. He still lived in 1289.
1324: Jean de Vendeuil II
1400: Family of Béthune
1435: Louis of Luxembourg
Jean de Bar, lord of Falvy
1477: Marie of Luxembourg. François de Bourbon Vendöme
1515: Family of Valencay
1566: Prince de Navarre
1589: Henri de Navarre - Henri IV
at the end of 1592: François d' Amerval Marie discreetly with Noyon with Gabrielle d' Estrées, the king Henri IV makes him of which seignery of Falvy-on-nap, field of Saint Lambert (canton of Marle), as well as 8000 ecus. Reason of that of which is easily by the consultation of the biography of Henri IV (its relations with Gabrielle d' Estrées).
1611: Isaac- Lord of St-Simon
1629: Destruction of the castle by Louis XIII (dismantling of the medieval fortresses)
1780: Balthazar of St Simon Rouvroy
1789: Claude Henri de Saint Simon

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November 22nd, 1916, 23rd victory of Georges Guynemer in Falvy. It should be noted that Ci will enter 53 of them during the Great War, including 21 in the sum (Holy Christ, Nesle,…).

August 9th, 1918, the bridge of Falvy is bombarded a height of 1000 feet by a " as" of Royal Air Force, the lieutenant James Alfred Keating of American nationality. It gained six victories in approximately of Falvy which one been worth Distinguish Flying Cross to him. Here the list of its victories:

Date hour plane adversary localization
22 Jul 1918 1820 D.H.9 Fokker D.VII (OOC) Sergy
08 Aug 1918 1835 D.H.9 (D3165) Pfalz D.III (DESF) Bethencourt
09 Aug 1918 0630 D.H.9 (C2202) Fokker D.VII (DESF) Marchélepot
09 Aug 1918 0630 D.H.9 (C2202) Fokker D.VII (DESF) Ablaincourt
09 Aug 1918 0640 D.H.9 (C2202) Fokker D.VII (OOC) Soyecourt
09 Aug 1918 0645 D.H.9 (C2202) Fokker D.VII (OOC) Lamotte

It is also responsible for the bombardment of the bridge of Bethencourt the day before (August 8th)

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