L'Isle-Adam - Oise - Ecluse 01
L'Isle-Adam may refer to: ;Places * L'Isle-Adam, Val-d'Oise, a commune in France ** Château de L'Isle-Adam ;People * Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam (1464-1534), Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller * Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste, comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (7 November 1838 – 19 August 1889) was a French symbolist writer. His family called him Mathias while his friends called him Villiers; he would also use the name Auguste w ...

L'Isle-Adam, Val-d'Oise
L'Isle-Adam () is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department in Île-de-France in northern France. The small town beside the river Oise has a long sandy beach and attracts visitors from Paris. Geography L'Isle-Adam is a commune and town in north central Val-d'Oise. It is located on the left bank of the River Oise immediately opposite the town of Parmain which is on the right bank, about northwest of Paris, north of Pontoise and south of Beauvais. It is on the northern fringe of the urban area of Paris, near the Regional Natural Park of French Vexin. The Oise borders the town on its north and west sides, and the town is partially built on three islands, the Ile du Prieuré, the Ile de la Cohue and the Ile de la Dérivation, by which there is a dam and lock. Several small streams flow through the town and there are also ponds and small lakes in the vicinity. The town is liable to flooding when the river rises, and nowhere in the commune is higher than above sea level, the river ...
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Château De L'Isle-Adam
The Château de L'Isle-Adam, now destroyed, could be found in the town of L'Isle-Adam, Val-d'Oise, L'Isle-Adam in the department of Val-d'Oise; it was built on an island called the ''Île du Prieuré'' The building was connected with many illustrious families; the Lords of Adams, the Dukes of Villiers, the Duke of Montmorency, Dukes of Montmorency, the Princes of Condé and finally the Princes of Conti. It was under the Princes of Conti that the building had its golden age. They lived there for seven generations and it was their principal residence outside Paris. Their Parisian home was the Hôtel de Conti (other), Hôtel de Conti. It was entirely destroyed by the 19th century. L'Isle Adam is situated on a series of three isles History To stop invasion by the Norman dynasty, Normans, the King of France ordered the construction of a series of fortresses in order to defend his lands from his enemy. The first series of buildings on the site were in fact constructed in 825 ...
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Philippe Villiers De L'Isle-Adam
Fra' Philippe de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam (1464 – 21 August 1534) was a prominent member of the Knights Hospitaller at Rhodes and later Malta. Having risen to the position of Prior (ecclesiastical), Prior of the Langue (Knights Hospitaller), ''Langue of Auvergne'', he was elected 44th Grand Master (order), Grand Master of the Order in 1521. He commanded the Order during Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, Suleiman's long and bloody Siege of Rhodes (1522), Siege of Rhodes in 1522, when 600 knights and 4500 soldiers resisted an invading force of about 100,000 men for six months,L. Kinross, ''The Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire'', 176 but eventually negotiated the capitulation and the departure of the knights on New Year's Day 1523 to Crete. He then led the Order during several years without a permanent domicile—first Kandi on Crete, then successively Messina, Viterbo and finally Nice (1527–1529). In 1530 de L'Isle-Adam obtained the islands of Malta ...
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