Today, the Vermandois is the country whose it city-center is Saint-Quentin, city of the Département of Aisne in the area Picardy. It is compared to the Arrondissement of Saint-Quentin.

But, historical Vermandois was much vaster. The pagus Viromandensis of the Early middle ages corresponded to most of évêché of the same name, except a small sector around Noyon, called pagus noviomensis or Noyonnais. He was the heir to the civitas Viromanduorum , the territory of the Viromanduens.

The name of Vermandois is formed on that of the Viromandui or Veromandui , the Gallic people which occupied the area, by the addition of the suffix - ensis , “relative to” (at the origin of the French terminations in - ois).

During the Early middle ages, its capital was probably Vermand; starting from IXe century, it is Saint-Quentin, frequently called in the medieval texts, Saint-Quentin-in-Vermandois .

See too

• Viromanduens

• List of the counts de Vermandois
• Beauvois-in-Vermandois, Bohain-in-Vermandois, Bouvincourt-in-Vermandois, Be worth-in-Vermandois and Vraignes-in-Vermandois
• Jean Boutillier

External bonds

• Site of the Community of Communes of Vermandois http://www.cc-vermandois.com