Lillers

Lillers is a common French, located in the department of the Pas-de-Calais and the area Nord-Pas-de-Calais.

Its inhabitants is called Lillerois.

Geography

History

The history of Lillers begins about the year 700, with a prince of Ireland which went in pilgrimage to Rome in company of his/her brother. Coming from Boulogne-sur-Mer and Thérouanne, holy Lugle and holy Luglien were assassinated by brigands not far from Ferfay, in the valley of Scyrendale. Buried by a servant, the two bodies “miraculeusement” were transported by water of a storm with Hurionville close to the castle of the bishop of Thérouanne which gave them a burial. Not far from there, was in the forest, an island in the middle of the marshes. It is there that they built a vault and their dwellings around: thus was born Lillers.

Later, this village was protected by a castle-extremely then by ramparts surrounded by deep ditches filled with water. After havebeing had by the counts de Flandres, Lillers which had been strengthened against the Normands was brought in dowry, in 1179 with the king Philippe Auguste.

In 1327, the Artois was set up in county by holy Louis. His/her Robert brother became the first count of Artois.

In 1303, the town of Lillers was burned, plundered by the Flemish . Towards 1340, the king of England claimed to be entitled to the throne of France and it was the beginning of the Guerre One hundred Year old marked by two famous battles, that of Crécy in 1346 and that of battle of Azincourt, in 1415, where Robert of Wavrin, lord of Lillers, found death among the cavalry of the French nobility .

In 1542, the French burned in their Lillers turn. There did not remain any more this time, that two or three houses and, in 1545, the inhabitants still lived under tents or in the huts.

After one period of peace, the War Thirty Year old, under Louis XIII and Richelieu, still devastated the area.

In 1637, the city was taken by the marshal of Ferté, for the Spanish . In 1639, it was taken again by the marshal of Meilleraye to become again French. It was still conquered by the Cardinal-Infant of Spain in 1640, then by the French. In 1641, it belonged again to the Spanish .

In 1645, Lillers was removed by the French, ordered by the duke of Guise. In 1657, Turenne took Saint-Coming. In 1659, was concluded the Traité from the Pyrenees which gave the Artois to the France, except Saint-Omer and Aire. In 1710, our area was the theater of the War of succession of Spain. In 1710, Lillers was taken by the Spanish . The British troops , German, Dutch devastated the country. The October 10th 1711, the marshal of Montesquiou shaved one fears that the allies had just built. Then Marlborough established its general headquarter with Lillers from where it was dislodged the December 10th by the marquis de Goesbriand with the head of the French troops. The Traité of Utrecht put an end to the war in 1713. Lillers was definitively French, but at what a price!

Every year a Grand Prix cyclist is organized: The Grand Prix of Lillers

Administration

Demography

Graph of evolution of the population 1794-1999

Places and monuments

Historic buildings

  • Vault of the Mercy: inscription by decree of the April 5th 1948

  • Church: classification by list of 1875
  • 44 place Roger-Salengro House; 2 rue de Relingue Façades and roofs (cad. AB 540): inscription by decree of the October 7th 1988
  • House known as of the 2 rue du Maréchal- Banker of-Lattre-of-Tassigny; 3 rue de Relingue Façades and roofs (cad. AB 677,859,863): inscription by decree of the December 30th 1976

Information resulting from: Mérimée bases

Personalities related to the commune

See too

  • Common of the Giant Pas-de-Calais

  • of North

External bonds

  • Official site of the city

  • Lillers on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Lillers on the site of INSEE
  • Lillers on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Lillers on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Lillers on Mapquest

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