Noyon is a commune in the Oise department in northern France. It lies on the Oise Canal about 100 kilometers (60 mi) north of Paris.
Saint Eligius is the patron saint of goldsmiths, other metalworkers, and coin collectors. He is also the patron saint of veterinarians, the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME), a corps of the British Army, but he is best known for being the patron saint of horses and those who work with them. Eligius was chief counsellor to Dagobert I, Merovingian king of France. Appointed the bishop of Noyon-Tournai three years after the king's death in 642, Eligius worked for twenty years to convert the pagan population of Flanders to Christianity.
Abbécourt is a French commune in the Aisne department in the Hauts-de-France region of northern France.
Saint Acarius was a monk of Luxeuil Abbey, who became bishop of Doornik and Noyon, which today are located on either side of the Franco-Belgian border.
A sexpartite vault, in architecture, is a rib vault divided into six bays by two diagonal ribs and three transverse ribs.
Bertin, also known as SaintBertin the Great, was the Frankish abbot of a monastery in Saint-Omer later named the Abbey of Saint Bertin after him. He is honored as a saint by Catholic Church.
Saint Medardus or St Medard (456–545) was the Bishop of Vermandois who removed the seat of the diocese to Noyon.
Quierzy, also known as Quierzy-sur-Oise, is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France, straddling the Oise River between Noyon and Chauny.
Noyan was a Central Asian title of authority of Turkic origin which was used to refer to military commanders of noble ancestry in the Central Asian Turkic Khanates. In modern times it is used as a given name or surname in Turkey and throughout Central Asia meaning “the commander-in-chief”, “the lord”, “the protector”.
Saint Godelieve is a Flemish saint.
Jacques de Noyon was a French Canadian explorer and coureur des bois. He is the first known European to visit the Boundary Waters region west of Lake Superior.
Ablaincourt-Pressoir is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
Beuvraignes is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
Godfrey of Amiens (1066–1115) was a bishop of Amiens. He is a saint in the Catholic Church.
Simon of Vermandois (1093–1148) was a French nobleman and bishop.
The War memorials (Oise) or Monuments aux Morts of Oise are French war memorials commemorating those men of the region who died in World War I.
Barthélemy de Jur was a French bishop. He was bishop of Laon from 1113 to 1151. Some documents give his name as Barthélemy de Grandson or de Joux.
Stephen of Lexington, was an English Cistercian monk, abbot, and founder of a college in Paris.
Louis-André Grimaldi d'Antibes was a French nobleman and bishop. He was one of the Princes of Monaco, Bishop of Le Mans, then a Peer of France as Count-Bishop of Noyon from 1777 and Bishop Emeritus after he resigned from the post of Bishop. He spent his later years in London. He was described as "a Voltairean prelate".
Guy I, son of Herbert II, Count of Vermandois, and Adele, daughter of Robert I of France. Count of Soissons, inherited from his father upon his death in 943. There is considerable confusion about both Guy’s parentage. Another source claims that Guy was the grandson of Herbert II, being the son of Adalbert I, Count of Vermandois, although there is no evidence that Adalbert was a Count of Soissons.
