History of Mouscron / *Rough* Translation from www.mouscron.be
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In reply to:
European Origins of the Brokaw Family Continued
Dennis Brokaw 5/09/02
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In spite of archeological discoveries dating back to the roman era, notably to the Mount-to-Leux, Mouscron is quoted for the first time in 1060.His étymologie would be "mosscher-on, place marécageux cover with foams".
In 1066, the Flanders count attributes to the collegiate Holy Rock of Lille of the earths to Mouscron.The altar of Mouscron, to the origin of the parish, appartint first to the Holy abbey barthélemy of the eeckhout to Bruges that, by exchanges, the céda in 1149 to the Holy abbey martin of Tournai with a part of the dîmes of which the chapter cathédral of Tournai was equally possessor.Mouscron suivit all the tribulations of the châtellenie of Courtrai of which she did left and was therefore French between the treaties d' Aix-it-Chapel in.
Three important seigneuries divided themselves Mouscron: • the one of Mouscron raising feudal courtyard of
harelbeke, • the fief of the Val depending on Warcoing • the seigneurie of Holy Rock of Lille.
The seigneurie of Mouscron spread itself on more three quarters of the parish and belonged to the audenarde lords, a branch younger daughter of the house of Louvain.Béatrice of Louvain vendit Mouscron in 1332 to Bernard of the Bar, a bourgeois of Tournai.In 1592, the domain passa by marriage to the of Liedekerke.An of these, Ferdinand, reçut in 1627 the privilege to see his seigneurie érigée in county by the Spain king Philippe IV.In 1645, for lack of direct descent, Mouscron tomba to the hands of the Basta.A new marriage the transféra to the ennetières Marquis in 1682.This family s'éteignit itself in 1875.
The seigneurie of Mouscron, that was only a body of earths and fiefs to the XIVe s., eut his castle about 1430, after the confiscation of the farm of the Rowed ones transformed then in lordly abode, today the Castle of the Counts.
Its possessors acquirent progressively all the situated fiefs on the parish of which the one of the Val in 1481.
As the whole region, Mouscron was marked by the wars of the end of the XVe s. and undergoes the ravagings of the garnison of Tournai.The religion wars of the end of the XVIe s. permirent to the Hurlus to seize itself briefly castle in 1579.In the second half of the XVIIe s., the town suffers enormously wars of Louis XIV.In 1794 itself there déroula a battle between French and from hanover.Outside of the German occupation at the time of the two World War, the last event warrior that lives Mouscron was the échauffourée of the Risks All in 1848.
Even in the middle of the XVIIIe s., Mouscron was an agricultural town where the industry textile prit only of the extension when Lille forbids in 1769 the manufacture of the molleton, a mixed fabric of lin and of wool, to the Roubaisiens and to the Tourquennois that émigrent then towards the Austrian Netherlands, to Mouscron notably where this manufacture is authorized since 1758.
Between 1800 and 1815, the activity textile prit again more of importance and opens to cotton.From 1850 about, the manpower need in the north of France attira quantity of Flemish workers to Mouscron.Then, about 1890-1900 and between the two World War, French employers invest on the spot and construct especially filatures and rug factories, this that stationary a part of the very numerous one bordering the Belgian side of the border and allows again to Mouscron on duty a place determining to the view point economical.
This expansion modifia radically the face of the traditional rural town, especially between 1919 and 1939 when of the urban entire neighborhoods arise of a pad, exacting a social cultural new structure.The town of Mouscron does not form more today than a conurbation with the métropole of the north of France.
Essentially french-speaking (94% in 1846, 74% in 1947), Mouscron was relateed to the Hainaut in 1963, becoming the first city of the Hainaut by the number of its inhabitants before the fusions of communes of 1977.