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Coordinates: 49°38′55″N 2°34′15″E / 49.6486111111, 2.57083333333

Commune of Montdidier
Location
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Map highlighting the commune of
Administration
Country France
Region Picardie
Department Somme
(sous-préfecture)
Arrondissement Montdidier
Canton Canton of Montdidier
(chef-lieu)
Intercommunality Communauté de communes du canton de Montdidier
Mayor Catherine Le Tyrant
(2001-2008)
Statistics
Elevation 55 m–113 m
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Land area¹ 12,58 km²
Population²
(2004)		 6029
 - Density 479,3/km²
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code 80561/ 80500
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2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once. C D E
France

Montdidier is a commune in the Somme département in the Picardie region of France. The following is a list of the 782 communes of the Somme département, in France. The Somme is a department of France, located in the north of the country and named after the Somme river. In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies a department (département depaʁtǝmɑ̃ is an Administrative division Picardie ( English: Picardy is one of the 26 regions of France. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics.

Contents

Geography

Situated on the D935 road, some 20 miles northeast of Amiens, in the region known as the ‘Santerre’. Amiens (amjɛ̃ is a city and commune in northern France, 120 km north of Paris.

Population

Population Growth
! 1926 1931 1936 1946 1954 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2004
4706 4305 4278 4399 4557 5430 5828 6204 6194 6262 6328 6029
Census count starting from 1962 : Population without double counting
The historic town centre
The historic town centre
The Town hall with its 48m belfry.
The Town hall with its 48m belfry. Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Population without double counting is an English translation of the phrase.


History

Baptismal fonts
Baptismal fonts

The commune has existed since before Roman times, possibly corresponding to the site of Bratuspance. Ancient Rome was a Civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC [1]

Under Charlemagne, a donjon was built in the north-west of the town, on a chalk promontory, (nowadays the site of the Prieuré). Charlemagne (ˈʃɑrlɨmeɪn Carolus Magnus or Karolus Magnus meaning Charles the Great) (747 – 28 January 814 was King of the Franks from 768 to his It was here, in 774, that Didier, king of the Franks and future western Emperor was held prisoner, giving the town its name The first church was built near the castle by Heldwide, c 948, the wife of Hilduin 1st of the house of the Counts of Montdidier][2]

Tomb (empty) of Raoul de Crépy
Tomb (empty) of Raoul de Crépy

In 1184, Philippe Auguste had the outlying buildings of the town burnt down[3], because of the rivalry between Philippe d'Alsace, for possession of the Amiénois and the Vermandois. Events By Place Europe Charlemagne conquers the kingdom of the Lombards, and takes title King of the Lombards The Franks or Frankish people (Franci or gens Francorum) were West Germanic tribes first identified in the 3rd century as an Ethnic group Events By Place Europe Otto I the Great founds the missionary dioceses of Brandenburg, Havelburg, Ribe, Philip II Augustus (Philippe Auguste ( 21 August[[ 165]] &ndash 14 July 1223) was the King of France from 1180 until his death Vermandois was a French county that appears in the Merovingian period
In 1195, the town was granted its communal charter.
In 1472, Montdidier was set alight by the Burgundians. Charles the Bold is reported to have said Tel fruit porte l'arbre de la guerre. Charles the Bold or Charles the Rash (Charles le Téméraire ( 21 November 1433 &ndash 5 January 1477) baptised Charles Martin [4](‘Such are the fruits of war’)

Under the Ancient Regime, Montdidier was in the ‘province’ of the Santerre (one of eight provinces of Picardie) and the seat of a bailiwick (established in 1516)[5] [6]
By edict of 1575, Henri III of France created the ‘élection’ of Montdidier, granting tax-raising powers to elected representatives. Ancien Régime ( pronounced: /ɑ̃sjɛ̃ ʁeʒim/ refers primarily to the aristocratic social and political system established in Picardie ( English: Picardy is one of the 26 regions of France. A bailiwick is the area of jurisdiction of a Bailiff. The term was also applied to a territory in which the Sheriff 's functions were exercised by a privately appointed Henry III of France (Henri III Henryk ( September 19 1551 – August 2, 1589)

The year 1590 saw the commune threatened and eventually invaded by the troops of Henri IV of France. Henry IV (Henri IV ( 13 December 1553 &ndash 14 May 1610) ruled as King of France from 1589 to 1610 and as Henry III

Parmentier Square.
Parmentier Square.

As with many towns of the region, Montdidier bore the brunt of thje fighting of World War I. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All It wasn’t pssible to save much of the town’s more ancient and valuable monuments.

Places of interest

Gallery

St Sepulchre Church and Town hall

St Peter’s Church

West front of St. Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Peter’s.

The war memorial

People linked with Montdidier

See also

Communes of the Somme department

Bibliography

External links

Notes

  1. ^ Pages 68 et 118 : La Somme, éd. du Bastion, 160 p. , reprint 1994 de 3 petits ouvrages : "Guide pittoresque du voyageur en France - 1838", "Atlas national - Département de la Somme", "La France pittoresque du Nord"
  2. ^ page 337, Tome I de « Histoire des Cathédrales, Abbayes, Châteaux-forts et Villes de la Picardie et de l'Artois », Paul Roger, éd. Duval et Herment, Amiens, 1842 (Réimpression Editions La Découvrance, 2003) - ISBN|2-84265-206-1
  3. ^ Victor de Beauvillé, Histoire de Montdidier, 1857.
  4. ^ page 199 : P. Lami, « (Résumé de) l'histoire de la Picardie » (voir ci-dessus)
  5. ^ page 280 : P. Lami, « (Résumé de) l'histoire de la Picardie » (voir ci-dessus)
  6. ^ pages 282-283 : P. Lami, « (Résumé de) l'histoire de la Picardie » (voir ci-dessus)
  7. ^ Page 9 : « Terres de Parmentier » - Guide d'accueil et de tourisme, éd. "Office de Tourisme de Montdidier, ses environs" - 28 pages (diffusé gracieusement en janvier 2008)
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