Jupille-on-Meuse

Jupille-on-Meuse (official name until 1963: Jupille , in Wallon Djoupeye ) is a section of the Belgian city of Liege located in Walloon region in the Province of Liege.

It was a commune with whole share before the fusion of the communes of 1977.

It is in this locality that the brewery Piedbœuf is (group InBev), manufacturing celebrates it Jupiler.

Etymology

Small (Romance diminutive - illa) genévrier (Celtic iuppo ). or Formed on the name of a Roman villa established on the site of Jupille: " Iovis villa" (Villa dedicated to Jupiter). " Iovis villa" > " Iovilla" > " Iopilla" > " Iupilla" > " Jupilla" > " Jupille".

History

Jupille probably exists thanks to its ideal geographical location, on a plate dominating the Meuse and at the point of meeting between the river and the road axis Tongres - Trier, very important during the Roman epoch.

Excavations made it possible to find the traces of a Gallo-Roman villa probably dating from the 1st and 2nd century after J-C.

Documents the 8th century evoke the presence of a residence of the Carolingian sovereigns.

One finds the traces of Jupille through the centuries under various orthographies: Iopiliensis (687), Jopila (714), Jobvilla (756), Jopilla (868), Iopilla (888), Juppille (1504).

Jupille was, with Herstal, the place of residence of a good part of the dynasty of the Mérovingiens and Carolingiens, of which some of most famous: Pip of Herstal, Charles Martel, Pip the Brief and Charlemagne.

Excavations are always in hand for if required determining the birthplace of Charlemagne.

Reading

JOSSE, Mr., the field of Jupille of the origins at 1297, Brussels, 1966, in-8°.
BONFOND Louis, THONNART Mathieu, History of the commune of Jupille-on-Meuse, cradle of Charlemagne. Liege, Massoz, 1938, in-12°.

Sources

Thanks to Apollo, one jubilee with Jupille

See too

the field of Fayenbois, on the heights of Jupille

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