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- After the French Revolution, Montbéliard was briefly incorporated into the Rauracian Republic. [ 3 ][citation needed] In 1793 the town was annexed to France, which was confirmed in 1796 and by the German Mediatisation of 1806, when Württemberg was compensated with other areas, and became a kingdom.
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The lordship of Montbéliard became a countship in the 12th century, after which Montbéliard came into the possession of the dukes of Württemberg, who administered it from the end of the 14th century until the French Revolution at the end of the 18th century.
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By the end of the seventeenth century the Montbéliard county, owned by the House of Wurtemberg, had wholly adopted the LutheranReformation. In 1587, Duke de Guise and the members of his league invaded the county to penalise Count Frédéric (who ruled from 1580 to 1608) for his friendship with Henri de Bourbon, the future King Henri IV. Moreover, the...
Once peace was restored, Count Frédéric undertook a journey to Italy with the architect Henri Schikhard. On his return he had the Protestant church of Saint-Martin built in Montbéliard. Its style was inspired by the Italian Renaissance. The construction lasted from 1601 to 1604. It is one of the largest Protestant churches in France today. From 161...
Count George ruled from 1662 to 1699. He was married to the great grand-daughter of admiral De Coligny, Anne de Châtillon, in 1648. He had a second Protestant church built in Montbéliard. The church still exists but is no longer used as such but as a city cultural centre. It was to accommodate the growing number of adherents to the French Reformati...
Louis XIV had his troops take the road from Besançon to Belfort, thus crossing Hericourt, the walls of which he had destroyed. In 1684 he ordered the Protestant church in the nearby village of Tavey to be exclusively attributed to the Catholics. This church, which still exists, was to be given back to the Protestants in 1908. In 1700, he ordered th...
After the French Revolution, Montbéliard was briefly incorporated into the Rauracian Republic. [ 3 ] [ citation needed ] In 1793 the town was annexed to France, which was confirmed in 1796 and by the German Mediatisation of 1806, when Württemberg was compensated with other areas, and became a kingdom.
Montbéliard was the homeland of about 420 French-speaking Protestants brought to Nova Scotia in the 1750s by a Dutch shipping agent named John Dick.
In 1790, the “seigneuries” actually became French. In fact, the inhabitants of Montbéliard had always spoken French, and their specific characteristics had prevented a real fusion with Württemberg.
Jan 16, 2017 · It was once the capital of the gravure of Montbéliard, which was a possession of Württemberg from 1397 to 1796. The first Mennonites came to Montbéliard as refugees from Bern, Switzerland, in the early 18th century.
The castle partly dates from the 13th-14th centuries, although an earlier castle had already stood here for at least 200 years.
