You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (February 2016) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
View a machine-translated version of the French article.
Machine translation, like DeepLorGoogle Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Caudry]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|fr|Caudry}} to the talk page.
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
Caudry (French pronunciation:[kodʁi]) is a commune in the Norddepartment in northern France.[3] Its inhabitants are called the 'Caudrésiens'. The town is mostly known as the Capital City of French Lace (along with Calais). Caudry station has rail connections to Douai, Cambrai, Paris, Lille and Saint-Quentin.
In the Middle Ages, as tradition will have it, Maxellende, a daughter of the lord of Caudry, was stabbed to death by one Harduin d'Amerval on 13 November 670 after turning him down. Following this Harduin became blind. However it is said that he recovered his sight as his victim's body was carried past him during its translation. Since then Maxellende has been the patron saint of Caudry and of the blind or partially sighted.
In the 19th century Caudry started specializing in tulle and lace making.
The first loom was installed in 1826 with parts smuggled from England. By 1913 there were some 650 looms employing several thousand workers. The population expanded from 1,926 in 1804 to 13,360 in 1911.
Caudry was shelled and burnt during the August 1914 Battle of Le Cateau, where it was on the left flank of the line of the retreating British Expeditionary Force.[5] It remained under German occupation until recaptured in late 1918.[6]
Today Caudry remains, with Calais, the only town in France where lace is still made. A lace museum has been opened in a former workshop in the town centre.
Many different Lords (French: Seigneurs) owned Caudry's lands and properties and had administrative power over the town. The following are the Lords of Caudry (French: Seigneurs de Caudry) chronologically ordered:
Almaric de Caudry (1007).
Amulric de Caudry (1078).
Mathieu de Caudry (1140).
Alondus de Fontaines, Régnier de Beaumont, Adam de Caudry (1150).
Adam de Caudry, vassal of Adam de Walincourt (1207).
Lambert de Caudry, married to Agnès de Héripont (1219).
Gérard de Saint-Aubert, Régnier de Beaumont (1220).
Alulphus de Caudry, Chevalier (1223).
Adam de Caudry (1227).
Jean Flamen, Seigneur de Caudry et de la Sotière (1233).
Adam de Caudry (1239).
Jean de l'aitre (1241).
Adam Kight and Lord of Caudry (1249).
Mathieu de Caudry (1272).
Adam, Sire de Caudry (1278).
Jean de Brebière, became 'Lord of Caudry' by having married Alys, Adam de Caudry (1315)'s daughter.
Jacques de Haspres, became 'Lord of Caudry' by having married Marie, Adam de Caudry (1322)'s other daughter.
Adam Flament, Seigneur de Caudry (1347).
Adam, dit Flament, Seigneur de Caudry, bailli du Cambrésis (1360).
Pierre de Caudry (died in 1424).
Guillaume de Viefville, Lord of Romeries and Caudry (1530).
Lucien Janssoone (1898-1944) - French Resistant, director of the ‘Complementary Classes For Boys’ in Caudry from October 1933, shot in 1944.
Charles Lemaire (born 1985) – French actor from Caudry.[16]
Arthur Ramette (born in Caudry, Nord, on 12 October 1897 - 15 December 1988) was a French mechanic, communist and politician. He was a leading representative of the French Communist Party in the National Assembly both before and after World War II (1939–45).[17]
Gaston Pigot (1885 - 1969) - French boxer, born in Caudry.
Lucienne Bogaert (1892-1983) - (born Lucienne Jeanne Gabrielle Lefebvre; 6 January 1892 in Caudry, Nord – 4 February 1983 in Montrouge, Hauts-de-Seine) was a French actress.
^Major A.F. Becke (1919). The Royal Regiment of Artillery at the Battle of Le Cateau.
^
Bajart, Léonce (1987). Caudry : vu par Léonce Bajart. Les Amis du Caudrésis. ISBN29501771.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: ignored ISBN errors (link)BnF349315461.
^Archives Du Nord (1842). Archives historiques et littéraire du Nord de la France, et de Midi de la Belgique. Digitalized by the University of California on Oct 9, 2009: Bureau des Archives de Valenciennes.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
