Nesle () is a

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in the Somme

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in northern

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Geography

Nesle is situated at the junction of the D930 and D337 roads, some southwest of Saint-Quentin. The Ingon, a small stream, passes through the commune.

Nesle (Somme) station Nesle is a railway station located in the commune of Nesle in the Somme department, northern France. The station is served by TER Hauts-de-France trains on the line from Amiens to Laon. History Formerly, the station was also connected with sec ...

has rail connections to Amiens and Laon.

Population

Personalities

* Amaury de Nesle (c.1180), a Patriarch of Jerusalem. *

Blondel de Nesle Blondel de Nesle – either Jean I of Nesle (c. 1155 – 1202) or his son Jean II of Nesle (died 1241) – was a French trouvère. The name 'Blondel de Nesle' is attached to twenty-four or twenty-five courtly songs. He was identified in 1942, b ...

(c. 1155 - 1202), French

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. *

Simon II of Clermont-Nesle (bishop) Simon of Clermont-Nesle (born after 1250 – died 22 December 1312 or c. February 1313), Peer of France and bishop of Noyon (1297–1301) and Bishop-count of Beauvais (1301–c. 1312). Simon was one of few bishops that supported King Philip IV " ...

(d.c. 1313),

Bishop of Noyon The former French Catholic diocese of Noyon lay in the north-east of France, around Noyon. It was formed when Saint Medardus moved the seat of the bishopric at Vermandois to Noyon, in the sixth century. For four centuries it was united with the ...

and

Beauvais Beauvais ( , ; pcd, Bieuvais) is a city and commune in northern France, and prefecture of the Oise département, in the Hauts-de-France region, north of Paris. The commune of Beauvais had a population of 56,020 , making it the most populous ...

Nesle family of lords

Nesle gave its name to an old

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family. This family became extinct at the beginning of the 13th century, and the heiress brought the lordship to the family of Clermont in the Beauvaisis,.Family tree of Clermont-Beauvaisis-Nesle
One of the first lords was Raoul I, Seigneur of Nesle (d.a. 1125).

Simon II of Clermont Simon II of Clermont-Nesle (c. 1210–1285/86) was Seigneur (Lord) of Ailly, Maulette and Nesle (in Picardy) Biography Simon was the eldest son Raoul I of Clermont-Nesle, Seigneur of Ailly, Maulette, and Gertrude of Nesle. He was a counsello ...

, Seigneur of Nesle through his mother Gertrude, was regent of the kingdom of France during the

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of Saint Louis. Raoul II/III of Clermont,

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, and Guy I and Guy II (d. 1352) of Clermont, both

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, were members of the family. The brothers Raoul and Guy I were both notable casualties of the

Battle of the Golden Spurs The Battle of the Golden Spurs ( nl, Guldensporenslag; french: Bataille des éperons d'or) was a military confrontation between the royal army of France and rebellious forces of the County of Flanders on 11 July 1302 during the Franco-Flemis ...

1302, a French military disaster in the

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in the

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. The

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(lordship) of Nesle was elevated to a countship for Charles de Sainte-Maure in 1467 and into a

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for

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in 1546. It was acquired in 1666 by Louis Charles de Mailly. His grandson, Louis de Mailly, had five daughters, of whom four ( the Countess of Mailly, the Duchess of Lauragais, the Countess of Vintimille, and the Marquise de la Tournelle, afterwards the Duchess of Châteauroux) were successively, or simultaneously, mistresses of

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