Merbes le Chateau

Merbes-le-Chateau is a French-talking municipality of Belgium positioned within the Walloon Region inside the province of Hainaut. Parts of the church, devoted to St. Martin, date from 1561. A franc cemetery has been found on the territory. Formerly there has been in the town a castle, now extinct, and it's miles from right here that comes the call of Merbes-le-Chateau. The village became formerly known as Merbes-Poteries within the 18th century, because of many potters craftsmen who practiced an critical craft.

There were numerous lordships on the territory. The biggest belonged to the princes of Barbençon, considered one of whose lords was buried within the church of Merbes. The other seigniories had been those of Boustaine, Rochelaire and Saint-Martin de Tournai relationship returned to the 12th century. Merbes has been the scene, two times, of violent fights. During the French Revolution, the military of the Ardennes, beneath the orders of Kleber, defeated the Austrians and extra lately, on August 24, 1914, throughout the Battle of the Borders, in which about twenty homes have been destroyed.