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Somme or The Somme may refer to: Places
*Somme (department), a department of France
* Somme, Queensland, Australia
* Canal de la Somme, a canal in France
*Somme (river), a river in France
Arts, entertainment, and media
* ''Somme'' (book), ...
Hauts-de-France
Hauts-de-France (; ; ), also referred to in English as Upper France, is the northernmost region of France, created by the territorial reform of French regions in 2014, from a merger of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy. Its prefecture is Lille. ...
in northern
France
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Geography
Nesle is situated at the junction of the D930 and D337 roads, some southwest of Saint-Quentin. The Ingon, a small stream, passes through the commune. Nesle (Somme) station has rail connections to Amiens and Laon.
trouvère
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Beauvais
Beauvais ( , ; ) is a town and Communes of France, commune in northern France, and prefecture of the Oise Departments of France, département, in the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, north of Paris.
The Communes of France, commune o ...
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Lordship
Nesle gave its name to an old
feudal
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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.Family tree of Clermont-Beauvaisis-Nesle One of the first lords was Raoul I, Seigneur of Nesle (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
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constable of France
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, and Guy I and Guy II (d. 1352) of Clermont, both
marshals of France
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, were members of the family. The brothers Raoul and Guy I were both notable casualties of the
Battle of the Golden Spurs
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1302, a French military disaster in the
County of Flanders
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in the
Franco-Flemish War
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The war should be seen as related to the original Gascon War and the First War of Scottish Independence, as Philip IV of ...
Louis XV
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