Deinze

Deinze is a town in Belgium, positioned inside the province of East Flanders within the Flemish Region. It lies at the brink of the Lys and has about 43,500 inhabitants. The call seems for the primary time inside the form Donsa or Dunsa inside the yr 840. The meaning continues to be difficult to understand, but may additionally well check with a region invaded by using moss. Poppon, abbot of Stavelot, born in 978 in Deinze, then gave to his homeland relics he had delivered returned from his pilgrimage to the Holy Land and that are enclosed within the wall of the Notre-Dame church. In the feudal length Deinze turned into a seigneury in the hands of several massive households; Poppon's father was one of the oldest we knew. We then locate Iweins d'Aalst and his son, who held the seigniory in fief of the counts of Flanders.

Then came the Courtenay circle of relatives, the Countess de Bar and the Count of Luxembourg. Around 1300 Deinze was offered by way of Walram de Luxembourg to Robrecht of Bethune and returned for a brief time in possession of the Counts of Flanders earlier than passing to Robert van Kessel who in flip might yield it to the counts of Bar.