Beloeil

Belœil is a Belgian municipality placed inside the province of Hainaut. It is around 10 km south of Ath. On 1 January 2006 the municipality had thirteen,347 inhabitants. The total region is sixty one.55 km², giving a populace density of 217 population in keeping with km². In addition to Belœil itself, the municipality additionally incorporates the subsequent population centres: Basecles, Ramegnies, Thumaide, Wadelincourt, Aubechies, Ellignies-Sainte-Anne, Quevaucamps, Grandglise, and Stambruges. The municipality is known as after the château of Belœil, once the seat of Charles-Joseph, Prince of Ligne, a military officer and guy of letters who corresponded with Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Voltaire.

The records of the chateau is nebulous however the unique creation of a fortress or citadel on the website online is normally idea so far to the 14th century. This website changed into the seat of the barons of the Ligne circle of relatives originating from Ligne in Hainault, a place about 8 kilometres from Beloeil. The earliest recorded baron of the House of Ligne become Fastré de Ligne, signatory to a constitution dated 1047 and others of the name noted in a charter of Baudouin IV, remember of Hainaut, dated to 1123.