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

Geography

Picquigny, borough located at ten kilometers in the west (thus downstream) of Amiens, on left bank of the Somme, is served by the Gare of Picquigny.

Administration

Demography

History

The locality was already occupied at the time of the Roman conquest since a Gallo-Roman cemetery was discovered in 1895 with the locality “ the Vines ”.

In the past noted Pinkeni , Pinkinei , Pecquigny , is mentioned into 942 under the name of Pinquigniacum , and under the names of Pinconii castrum in 1066 and of Pinchiniacum in 1110. This borough, baronnie of “frank freehold”, which held in its mobility three hundred and sixty strongholds, is located on the Sum, with three miles of Amiens and with seven miles of Abbeville.

• After the defeat of the Huns to Lihons - in-Santerre, the inhabitants of Amiens, who had delivered passage to the barbarians, took refuge in the castle of Picquigny, to put safe from revenge on Dagobert, and they were besieged there by the prince.

• the December 17th 942, Arnoul, Count de Flandre, and Guillaume Long-Sword, Duke of Normandy, had an interview with Picquigny to treat peace. They went on an small island on the Sum, leaving each one its army. The finished conferences, Guillaume left, Arnoul recalled it in the island. Guillaume not suspecting anything returned and was assassinated at the time of an ambush.
• As of the 13th century, this borough had the statute of commune with a échevinage.
• At the beginning of the 14th century, the field of the lords of Picquigny was composed of two distinct parts: one (established on two banks of the Somme) constituting the vidamé of Amiens, the other (in the North of the Sum) composing the Avouerie of Corbie. The latter held by delegation of this abbey the right of coinage.
• In 1307, the Templiers, stopped the same day in all the extent of the baillage of Amiens by order of Philippe Beautiful the, were locked up in the undergrounds of the castle of Picquigny, then imposing fortress.
• the August 29th 1475, by the Traité of Picquigny Louis XI bought with Edouard IV with the help of an annual tribute of fifty thousand ecus gold, a truce putting an end to the Guerre One hundred Year old.
• In November 1498, by front Jean d' Ardres, baillif de Picquigny, the lord Charles d' Ailly makes it possible to the inhabitants to repurchase the obligation to go to the Communal oven to make cook their bread against 2 grounds 6 sums of money by household.
• In August 1547, Henri II established a market all second Mondays of each month to help the inhabitants set fire to be restored.
• In July 1575, establishment of a frank market.
• the July 14th 1595, the borough and its fortress were used as refuge with the remains of the French Army which had gone to the help of Doullens, under the orders of the Duc of Bubble, the Count of Saint-pol. and the duke of Nevers, demolished by the Spanish general, Count de Fuentes.
• In January 1630, establishment of a market Wednesday of each week.
• 19th century: passage of Victor Hugo, which travels along the Sum. In the Poor wretches , Fauchelevent says being of Picquigny.
• 1849 : As in all the communes of France, the major population masculine could, for the first time, outward journey to vote thanks to the introduction of the Vote for all.

Here the distribution (of number) of some patronyms of the voters: (seized nonexhaustive!)

Places and monuments

• feudal Castle : Set up at the beginning of the 11th century, the building formed a parallelepiped furnished with circular towers to the angles according to the traditional diagram of the beginning of the 13th century. Rebuilt at the 14th century and supplemented with the S, it suffers considerable damage at the time of the First World War. Nevertheless, the vestiges remain imposing and picturesque, and are held there, recently, of the medieval festivals every August.

Apart from the fortifications themselves, the prison, the kitchen, 2 cellars, the latrines and the house Sévigné remained and are still particularly interesting.

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