Nomain

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

Geography

Nomain is a small town which is located between Valencian Lille and .

History of Nomain

According to the archeologist Roger Felix, a villa Gallo-Roman would have been discovered in Nomain, which confirms the idea that Nomain was inhabited during Antiquity. Nevertheless, the Germanic toponym of origin and the localities post-Romans indicate that the site was abandoned and that the village was truly founded with the Middle Ages, shortly after the invasions Normans. Very wide for the area (the County of Flanders), the village was divided into many seigniories, concerned with the châtellenie of Lille or Douai.

One has little information on the history of Nomain, but however some traces are noted: The Church dates from XIe century and was of Romance style (tiles and squares having been recovered and used in the church starting from the ruins of the famous Gallo-Roman villa). Nomain is quoted at the 12th century in a title of the Abbaye of Saint-Amand. The ground, made up of several strongholds and seigniories of which most important was that of Roupy, concerned the castle of Douai.

Nomain was called then Nomaing (name coming from Germanic the " Naminghem" , meaning " remain of Namo"). In the middle of the 13th century the ground of the Pévèle included/understood the seigniory of Orchies, those of the villages of Bouvignies, Auchy, Coutiches, Flines, the homage of the lords of Landas and that of the Lord of Wastines from which the seigniory extended then on Capelle, Bersée, but also on Nomain. With Nomain, the lord of Lannay was to pour a tax with his suzerain, the lord of Orchies. At the end of the century, the Flemings, exceeded enormous contributions which were unceasingly required of them were in a great agitation and Philippe the Beautiful one declared the war in 1297 to them, seized Lille and most of the Flanders. The surroundings of Douai, therefore of Nomain, were devastated. The government of Flanders was given to Raoul de Nesle which in its turn raised heavy taxes.

In 1302, the Flemings took again the Flanders. In 1305, by the treaty of Athis on Barley, the three châtellenies Flemish of French language of Lille, Douai and Orchies was annexed in France after the reconquest of Philippe Beautiful the. Those were restored with the Comté of Flanders in 1370, in favor of the marriage of Marguerite de Male with Philippe Bold the, duke of Burgundy. At this point in time the 100 year old started war, from which the area suffered enormously. The Flemings made alliance with Edouard III king d' Angleterre. The English troops seized easily Tournai with which they reflects fire. Landas and Orchies was ransacked by the flames on August 1st, 1340.

In 1356, the Flanders stuck to the crown of Burgundy. April 30th, 1414, the king of England benefitting from the dissensions invades the country and overcame the French with Azincourt in 1415; Jean de Lannais, lord of Lannais with Nomain and Louis of Quesnoy left their life there. In 1477, during the countryside of Louis XI in Flanders and Hainaut, the French troops plundered and set fire to the area and especially Orchies which still remained however built-in the Netherlands during two centuries. In 1512, Jean de Montmorency built a castle with Nomain, on its field of Roupy (which will become the " Roupion"), opposite the cross of current stone God. (The last vestiges of the castle disappeared during construction of the railway line Ascq-Orchies.) At that time, the Protestant religion had been spread in Flanders and radiated in Lille and Douai. Philippe II engaged against the Protestants a severe fight. August 25th, 1566, a troop of Protestants of Douai moved towards Orchies. Pushed back and killed, it is since the martyrs of the town of Orchies.

Nomain and the Flanders was occupied by the Spaniards a short moment and was taken again by France. But it was taken again of 1708 to 1712 by the Dutchmen and the English. Under the Revolution, the vicinity of the border was worth to him to be taken and lost successively by the French and the Austrians in 1792 and 1793. For this turbid period, a refractory priest (who refused to lend oath to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy), the vicar Louis Howell, emigrated in Germany, and returned in Nomain in 1796. There remained hidden in a farm during two years, before being denounced, stopped then guillotine with Douai, on January 20th, 1799.

In 1820, the first Protestant church Baptist is founded in Nomain, street of Lannay (in spite of violent one conflicts with the faithful ones of Bernard de Felice, Pasteur of Lille). Then will follow a strong establishment in the coal basins under development full. During the 1st world war, the inhabitants of Nomain organized a resistance network charged to communicate information with the allies, via carrier pigeons. The network was dismantled in 1917. The mayor, Leon Delsart, escaped death, but Henri Caignet, Flore Lafrance, Georgine Bossuyt and Georges Remy were shot with the citadel of Turned, on October 31st.

Extracts from http://www.nomain.fr.st

The Church Baptist

Nomain with played a central role in the history of Protestantism in France: the church Baptist was founded in Nomain in 1820, then it touched the other cities of North, then very whole France.

the whole article on the not-official site: [http://perso.orange.fr/slacker2002/protestants.htm]

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of North

External bonds

the not-official site of Nomain (association VMEN)
Nomain on the site of the national geographical Institute
Nomain on the site of INSEE
Nomain on the site of Quid
Localization of Nomain on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Nomain on Mapquest

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