Nesle

Nesle (French pronunciation: ​[nɛl]) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Nesle
Commune
The town hall in Nesle
Coat of arms
Location of Nesle
Nesle Nesle
Coordinates: 49°45′31″N 2°54′38″E
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Somme
Arrondissement	Péronne
Canton	Ham
Intercommunality	CC Est de la Somme
Government
• Mayor (2001–2008)	Paul Pilot
Area ^1	7.72 km^2 (2.98 sq mi)
Population  (2017-01-01)[1]	2,339
• Density	300/km^2 (780/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	80585 /80190
Elevation	57–82 m (187–269 ft) (avg. 79 m or 259 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

Nesle is situated at the junction of the D930 and D337 roads, some 16 miles (26 km) southwest of Saint-Quentin. The Ingon, a small stream, passes through the commune.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	2,483	—
1975	2,811	+1.79%
1982	2,643	−0.88%
1990	2,642	−0.00%
1999	2,451	−0.83%
2007	2,493	+0.21%
2012	2,411	−0.67%
2017	2,339	−0.60%
Source: INSEE[2]

Personalities

• Amaury de Nesle (c.1180), a Patriarch of Jerusalem.
• Blondel de Nesle (c. 1155 - 1202), French trouvère.
• Simon II of Clermont-Nesle (bishop) (d.c. 1313), Bishop of Noyon and Beauvais.

Nesle family of lords

Nesle gave its name to an old feudal 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,.[3] One of the first lords was Raoul I, Seigneur of Nesle (nl) (d.a. 1125).

Simon II of Clermont, Seigneur of Nesle through his mother Gertrude, was regent of the kingdom of France during the second crusade of Saint Louis. Raoul II/III of Clermont, constable of France, and Guy I and Guy II (d. 1352) of Clermont, both marshals of France, were members of the family. The brothers Raoul and Guy I were both notable casualties of the Battle of the Golden Spurs 1302, a French military disaster in the County of Flanders in the Franco-Flemish War (1297-1305).

The seigneurie (lordship) of Nesle was elevated to a countship for Charles de Sainte-Maure in 1467 and into a marquisate for Louis de Sainte-Maure 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 Louis XV.

See also

• Communes of the Somme department

References

1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
2. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
3. Family tree of Clermont-Beauvaisis-Nesle (in French)

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Nesle". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

External links

• Nesle official website