Tournaisis
The Tournaisis is the name given to the area of Tournai, in Belgium.
The Encyclopedia of Diderot and D' Alembert (1751 - 1772) defines it as follows:
- TOURNESIS, it, (Géog. MOD.) small country of Flanders, & which takes its name of Tournay its capitale.
- Le Tournesis is other thing only the châtellenie of Tournay, which is of a rather great extent; because it contains approximately fifty villages or boroughs, whose justice arose with the provincial council of Flanders, from where one can call at the Parliament of Malines.
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Les kings de France having instituted the bailliage of Vermandois, swages there joint Tournai & Tournesis; but in 1383 Charles VI. set up a bailliage with Tournay, to which it subjected this city & Tournesis, with the grounds of Mortagne & Saint - Amand, which relevoient bailliage of Vermandois before; the union of these grounds to this bailliage lasted until the tems of the peace of Utrecht, by which all ground of Saint - Amand was separated from the bailliage of Tournesis, & grant to France; but for the nine villages which dépendoient of Mortagne, they were left at the house of Autriche.
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