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STAVELOT

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 816 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STAVELOT  , an

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ancient
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town of
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Belgium, in the
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south-
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east of the
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province of
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Liege . Pop . (1904), 5037 . Here
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Charles Martel gained a
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signal victory over
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Neustria in 719 . A monastery had been established there
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half a
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century earlier by St Remacle,
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bishop of Tongres . The
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prince-
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abbot of Stavelot exercised
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secular authority over many towns in the Amble-Nee and Warche valleys, including
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Malmedy (now in
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Prussia), and had a seat in the old
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German
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Diet . In 1815 the treaty of
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Vienna
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broke up the Stavelot principality, giving half to Prussia and half to the
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Netherlands . Only the
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tower of the old
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Benedictine
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abbey remains, and the
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shrine of St Remacle is preserved in the
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parish
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church .

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