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- historical region in France
- former county, duchy and province
• Flag
• Meaning/Origin of the Flag
• Coat of Arms
• Meaning/Origin of the Coat of Arms
• Map of the historical Regions in France
• Explanations about the Regions
• History
• Origin of the Country's Name
Flag of the Champagne
– Drapeau de l' Champagne,
Source, by: Die Welt der Flaggen
The historic flag of the Champagne is a scutcheon flag. Its design displays the image of the coat of arms.
Source:
Volker Preuß,
Heraldique Europeenne
1019–1284,
Coat of arms of the Counts of Blois
– Armoriaux des comtes de Blois,
Source, by:
Wikipedia (DE)
Coat of arms of the Champagne
– Armoriaux de l' Champagne,
Source, by:
Heraldique Europeenne
The coat of arms of the Champagne shows white oblique-right bar on blue ground, which is bounded above and below by golden lines, each topped with a crutch cut. The Heraldry of the coat of arms goes probably back to the Counts of Blois, who were enfeoffed with the Champagne in the year 1020. Their coat of arms became obviously a little bit modified and was transferred to the county.
Source:
Heraldique Europeenne,
Wikipedia (DE),
Volker Preuß
The historical, French Regions:
in black: governorate and province in 1776,
in red: former county, province oder governorate
Map: Volker Preuß
The provinces (or governorates) that existed until the French Revolution were historically grown entities that had often developed from former fiefdoms of the French crown, historical counties and duchies, often existed for hundreds of years and had preserved regional characteristics (cultural peculiarities and regional languages). Such phenomena were naturally undesirable to the French Revolution, and in the context of its bloody and violent egalitarianism, all regional references were eradicated. Shortly after the Revolution, the provinces were dissolved and France was divided into many small départements, which were to be approximately the same size and have the same status, controlled by prefects of the central administration in Paris. The departments were named after rivers or mountains so as not to use the names of any of the old provinces. However, it was not possible to sever the ties between the inhabitants of France and their respective historically grown regions, so that in 1960 regions were created again. There can hardly be said to be any real autonomy. The regions are only supposed to promote the economic, social, health, cultural and scientific development of the region, keep an eye on housing and living conditions, and provide support in some areas, e.g. urban development policy, urban regeneration, regional planning, preservation of regional identity and promotion of regional languages. When the regions were formed, departments located in a particular historical province were administratively grouped together into a region that often had the same historical name. The resulting entities only roughly corresponded to the boundaries of historical provinces. In strictly centralised France, however, any form of responsible regionalism is avoided. The regions do not even have their own seals with which to mark their own legally binding decisions, because there are no plans to introduce such a thing. Therefore, anything to do with coats of arms or flags is completely irrelevant. The logos of the regions are used generally, sometimes with the colours reversed and placed arbitrarily on flags or banners. There are no rules, as they are not official symbols. The logos and flags of the regions therefore often look like company logos: Unloving, unhistorical, technocratic and modernistic. That is why most of these regions have a kind of unofficial heraldic flag, which is intended to recall historical heraldic models. However, these are merely decorative in nature and are not a symbol of sovereign functions. The regions created in 1960 were even called into question in 2014, and a territorial reform was decided – centrally from Paris – which reduced the number of regions by almost half through mergers. The regions and their institutions were not even consulted on this matter.
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Source: Flags of the World,
Wikipedia (D),
Volker Preuß
antiquity · settlement by the Celtic tribes of the Remers, Trikasse, Meldes, Lingones and Sennones
55 B.C. · Roman conquest, annexation to the Roman Empire, to the provinces of Gallia Belgica and Gallia Lugdunensis
4th to 5th century A.D. · Great Migration, today's Champagne is populated by Franks but also by Burgundians
451 · Battle of the Catalaunian Fields, the Roman general Flavius Aetius stops the advance of the Huns under Attila
5th century · emergence of the Frankish Kingdom around the city of Doornik (Tournai, now in Belgium) under kings out of the House of the Merovingians, to 507 (under King Clovis) expansion of the empire to the Atlantic Ocean, the Pyrenees and the Alps
511 · death of King Clovis, division of the Frankish Empire by Salic law of succession among his four sons (residences in Paris, Soissons, Orleans, Reims)
550 · administrative division of the kingdom into the kingdoms of Austrasia, Neustria and Burgundy, today's Champagne comes to Austrasia
570–714 · reign of by the King appointed dukes in the Champagne
639 · death of King Dagobert I., the power goes over to the Mayors of the Palace (maior domus) of Austrasia (House of the Carolingians)
687 · Pepin II. asserts itself as Mayor of the Palace throughout the Frankish Empire
751 · Pepin the Short (III., grandson of Pepin II.) eliminates the Merovingian monarchy and let hisself elect to the king from the Franks
946 · the Champagne, now consisting of the Counties of Troyes and Meaux, is given as a fief to the Counts of Vermandois
1019/25 · the Counts of Blois receive the Counties of Troyes and Meaux as a fief
1107–1152 · reign of Theobald IV, the Great, from the House of Blois, the Counties of Troyes and Meaux are merged to the County of Champagne
1284 · King Philip IV. of France (from the House of the Capetingians) marries Joan, the heiress of the Kingdom of Navarre, the County of Champagne and the County of Brie, and brings this possessions to the French crown, they became annexed to France in 1361, the Champagne and Navarre could retain certain privileges, partly to the Revolution of 1789, the Champagne as a governorates (province), Navarra as the corporative state
1468 · King Louis XI. of France transfers to his brother, Charles de Valois, Duke of Berry, the Champagne, together with the title of the Duke of Champagne
1776 · the already in the 14th century created governorates of the civil administration of the kingdom of France become committed to a number of 39, and correspond in this way to the number of provinces, in previous years could any provinces be summarized in one governorate
1789 · French Revolution , the governorates (provinces) become abolished, the Champagne is divided into departments
1960 · reintroduction of regions in France, formation of the Region of Champagne-Ardenne, but not within the historic boundaries, just by integrating the departments of Ardennes, Marne, Aube and Haute Marne
2016 · the Champagne-Ardenne region merges with the Alsace (Elsass) and Lorraine (Lothringen) regions in the new, larger region of Greater East (Grand Est)
Source:
Meyers Konversationslexikon,
Wikipedia (DE),
Taschenatlas Weltgeschichte
The name "Champagne" is a reference to the agricultural nature of the land, which is not only known for wine and champagne. The name of the Champagne derives from the Latin word "campus", what "field" means, and came upon the old French word "champs" in its shape.
Source:
Wikipedia (DE),
Volker Preuß
