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Encyclopedia > Lyderic and Phinaert

The legend of Lyderic and Phinaert is tied to the foundation of the French city of Lille. City motto: – City proper (commune) Région Nord-Pas de Calais Département Nord (59) Mayor Martine Aubry (PS) (since 2001) Area 39. ...


The legend

Around the year of our Lord 620, the prince of Dijon, Salvaert, made his way to the Kingdom of England with his pregnant wife, Ermengaert. While traveling through Flanders, they fell into a trap laid by the local lord, the giant Phinaert. Phinaert has the prince and his men killed. Ermengaert flees and finds refuge at a hermit's home in the forest, where she gives birth to a son. Upon her death, she entrusts the baby to the hermit. He feeds the boy deer milk and baptizes him with his own name, Lyderic. Events Medina is converted to Islam. ... Location within France Street in the centre of Dijon Dijon (   pronunciation?) is a city in eastern France, the préfecture (administrative capital) of the Côte-dOr département (county) and of the Bourgogne région. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (mid-2004) - Density Ranked 1st UK 50. ... Flanders (Flemish, Fleming) (Dutch: Vlaanderen (Vlaams, Vlaming), French: Flandre(s), (flamand, flamand), German: Flandern, (flämisch, Flame) has two main designations: a constituent region of the federal Belgian state trough its social and political organisations, and trough the institutions of the Flemish Community (with its own Flemish government...


Lyderic soon learns the truth about his origins, and as a youth he sets out to search for Phinaert. He finds him at the court of Dagobert I at Soissons. Lyderic kills Phinaert in a sword duel and so avenges his parents' deaths. Phinaert's lands are given to Lyderic, where the young man founds the city of Lille in the year 640. Dagobert I (c. ... The city of Soissons in the Aisne département, Picardie, France on the Aisne River is about 60 miles northeast of Paris and is one of the most ancient cities of France, and is probably the ancient capital of the Suessiones. ... City motto: – City proper (commune) Région Nord-Pas de Calais Département Nord (59) Mayor Martine Aubry (PS) (since 2001) Area 39. ... Events May 28 - Severinus becomes pope, but dies the same year. ...


Related information

There is a sculpture of Lyderic and Phinaert on the wall at the base of Lille's belfry. City motto: – City proper (commune) Région Nord-Pas de Calais Département Nord (59) Mayor Martine Aubry (PS) (since 2001) Area 39. ... This page is about bell towers. ...


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The Lyderic and Phinaert giants in Lille


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Strange Horizons Columns: Dispatches from Planet France: Me and the Giants (Part 1 of 2), by Susannah Mandel (5486 words)
The giants are named Lydéric and Phinaert, and they are the patron giants of Lille, the city where I live.
As she lay asleep at the foot of a willow by a fountain, she was blessed with an apparition of the Virgin Mary.
Phinaert was defeated, and the King gave Lydéric the castle of Buc, the cradle of the city of Lille, and granted him the title of first prince of Flanders.
Lisle France - France Travel Vacation - Tourism Northern France - Bistro De Montmartre - France Travel - Montmartre - ... (1709 words)
She soon gives birth to a son, and has just enough time to hide the baby before she is taken by Phinaert's men.
On June 19th, 640, he is victorious in a duel, finds his mother, his prestige and inherits Phinaert's goods, of which the castle of L'Isle is part, and settles there.
Tradition allows Lyderic to become the first Count of Flanders and the founder of the city of Lille as it is around the castle that the city will develop in the eleventh century.
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