Lessines

Lessines is a French-speaking town in Belgium located at the river Dendre in the Walloon Region within the province of Hainaut. It seems that it changed into based with the aid of the Saxons, driven back through the Roman troops after a struggle, towards the fifth century. At the start of the 9th century, 10 farms of Lessines belonged to the patrimony of the mom of Saint Guibert, who bequeathed him to him and his brother Oubaud. Guibert bequeathed his percentage to the abbey of Gembloux that he had simply based in 936, a donation recommended through a charter of Otto I of the Holy Roman Empire of 9461.

The land of Lessines, like that of Flobecq, became at the boundary of Hainault and the county of Aalst and become occupied by using the squire of Oudenaarde. Primarily, maximum of these territories were a dependency of the county of Aalst, but it is likely that the Romance language of which the population used had brought them towards their friends of Hainaut.