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Cambrai ( US: / kæmˈbreɪ, kɒ̃ˈ -/, [3] [4] French: [kɑ̃bʁɛ] ⓘ; Picard: Kimbré; Dutch: Kamerijk ), formerly Cambray [4] and historically in English Camerick or Camericke, is a city in the Nord department and in the Hauts-de-France region of France on the Scheldt river, which is known locally as the Escaut river.
The Battle of Cambrai ( Battle of Cambrai, 1917, First Battle of Cambrai and Schlacht von Cambrai) was a British attack in the First World War, followed by the biggest German counter-attack against the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) since 1914. The town of Cambrai, in the département of Nord, in France, was an important supply centre for ...
A Thanksgiving Service attended by Canadian troops being held in the Cambrai Cathedral, October, 1918. Cambrai Cathedral ( French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Grâce de Cambrai) is a Catholic church located in Cambrai, Nord, France, and is the seat of the Archbishop of Cambrai. The cathedral was registered as a monument historique on 9 August 1906.
The Archdiocese of Cambrai ( Latin: Archdiocesis Cameracensis; French: Archidiocèse de Cambrai) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France, comprising the arrondissements of Avesnes-sur-Helpe, Cambrai, Douai, and Valenciennes within the département of Nord, in the region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais.
Cambrésis ( French: [kɑ̃bʁezi], Dutch: Kamerijk, German: Kammerich) is a former pagus, county and prince-bishopric of the medieval Holy Roman Empire that was annexed to the Kingdom of France in 1679. It is now regarded as one of the "natural regions" of France, and roughly equivalent to the Arrondissement of Cambrai in department Nord.
The arrondissement of Cambrai is an arrondissement of France in the Nord department in the Hauts-de-France region. It has 116 communes . [2] Its population is 162,045 (2016), and its area is 901.6 km 2 (348.1 sq mi).
Archbishops. Fénelon was archbishop of Cambrai from 1695 to 1715. Maximilian de Berghes (1562–1570) Louis de Berlaymont (1570–1596) Jean Sarazin (1596–1598) Guillaume de Berghes (1601–1609) Jean Richardot (1609–1614), [8] minister and diplomat of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella. François Buisseret (1614–1615) [9]
League of Cambrai. Northern Italy in 1494. The League of Cambrai was a military coalition against the Republic of Venice formed on 8 December 1508, by the main European powers ( Holy Roman Empire, Spain and France ), to maintain their hegemony over the Italian Peninsula .