Quaregnon

Quaregnon is a French-speakme municipality of Belgium placed inside the Walloon Region in the province of Hainaut. We can see that this big village, the maximum populous of the Borinage, has more than one particularity. However, his story isn't always wealthy in highlights. Quaregnon changed into formerly owned by the chapter of Sainte-Waudru. The Count of Hainaut, as abbot, had a 3rd of seigneurial rights. The abbey of Saint-Ghislain possessed the snack of the treatment and loved the tithe collectively with the priest.

There became the seigneury of the flight, referred to as Lambrechies and the fief of Briancon. This commune acquired a charter-regulation in the fourteenth century. The hereditary metropolis hall of Quaregnon is referred to inside the 13th century. It belonged at the start of the 14th century to the family of Carnieres, who offered it to the chapter of Sainte-Waudru in 1321. The latter employed it numerous instances. Gilles or Gillion de Carnieres, squire, lord of Carnieres in 1308, son of Gossuin. He turned into owner of the city hall of Quaregnon, in 1309. In March 1330, it was now not because the Count of Hainaut, Guillaume buys to his heirs the city corridor of Quaregnon.