In 463 in Orléans, in conjunction with the Roman General Aegidius, who was based in Soissons, he defeated the Visigoths, who hoped to extend their dominion along the banks of the Loire River.

Seeckt marched with the Corps in the German offensive, and " distinguished himself " in fighting near Soissons, then in March 1915, he became chief of staff to General August von Mackensen of the German Eleventh Army.

In 1685 he became Bishop of Soissons, but after waiting for installation for four years he took the bishopric of Avranches instead.

The German attack took place on 27 May, between Soissons and Rheims.

The Battle of Soissons can refer to one of several important historical battles, all of which took place in the vicinity of the French town Soissons:

Eventually he made peace with them, but he took Merovech away with him to Soissons.

Charles's illegitimate daughters by Anne Marie Bohier, daughter of Antoine, seigneur de la Rochebourdet, took the veil: Charlotte, bâtarde de Soissons ( d. 1626 ), became abbess of Fontevrault and Catherine, bâtarde de Soissons ( d. 1651 ), became abbess of Perrigne in Maine.

From 1917 to 1921 Morgan took residence near the French front, not far from both Soissons and the " Chemin des Dames " at Blérancourt, and ran a formidable help organisation, The American Friends of France ( it employed several hundred people at a time, volunteers from abroad and locally recruited staff ), financed partly out of her own deep pockets, partly with the help of an active network in the States.

On 13 November 833, Ebbo of Rheims presided over a synod in the Church of Saint Mary in Soissons which deposed Louis and forced him to publicly confess many crimes, none of which he had, in fact, committed.

* Aegidius becomes ruler over the Domain of Soissons ( Gaul ).

Between June 1728 and July 1729 it hosted the Congress of Soissons an attempt to resolve a long-standing series of disputes between Great Britain and Spain which had spilled over into the Anglo-Spanish War of 1727.

In a thirty-year reign ( 481 – 511 ) he defeated the Roman general Syagrius and conquered the Roman enclave of Soissons, defeated the Alemanni ( Tolbiac, 504 ) and established Frankish hegemony over them, defeated the Visigoths ( Vouillé, 507 ) and conquered their entire kingdom ( save Septimania ) with its capital at Toulouse, and conquered the Bretons ( according to Gregory of Tours ) and made them vassals of Francia.

* Paulus ( ruler ), short-time ruler over the Domain of Soissons

* Battle of Soissons ( 1918 ) – A World War I battle, waged from July 18 – 22, 1918, between American and German troops, resulting in over 12, 000 casualties for the former.

In July 1918 he was wounded when his plane was shot down over Soissons, France, which in turn required his leg to be amputated.

Deposed in 863 at the council of Soissons that was presided over by Hincmar, Rothad appealed to Rome.

In 486 the Frankish armies under Clovis triumphed over Syagrius, the last Roman official in Northern Gaul, at the Battle of Soissons.

The " custom of Agaunum ", as it came to be called, spread over Gaul, to Lyons, Châlons, the Abbey of Saint Denis, to Luxeuil, Saint-Germain at Paris, Saint Medard at Soissons, to Saint-Riquier, and was taken up by the monks of Remiremont Abbey and Laon Abbey, though the Abbey of Agaunum had ceased to practice it from the beginning of the ninth century.

After conquering the Kingdom of Soissons and expelling the Visigoths from southern Gaul at the Battle of Vouillé, he established Frankish hegemony over most of Gaul, excluding Burgundy, Provence and Brittany, which were eventually absorbed by his successors.

The AFF was active in succoring noncombatants, organizing a health service that still exists in Soissons, a workshop to provide basic furniture to bombed-out families, a holiday camp for children, and a mobile library that was taken over by the library in Soissons, and so on.

Although the sculpture on the portals at Chartres is generally of a high standard, the various carved elements inside, such as the capitals and string courses, are relatively poorly finished ( when compared for example with those at Reims or Soissons ) – the reason is simply that the portals were carved from the finest Parisian limestone, or ' ' calcaire ' ', while the internal capitals were carved from the local Berchere stone that is hard to work and can be brittle.

His share was based in the centre of the Frankish Kingdom, with his capital at Soissons, and consisted of the Parisian basin, the Massif Central, the Languedoc, Provence, Burgundy, southern Austrasia, Alsace and Alemannia ; the regions were poorly integrated and surrounded by those bequeathed to Charlemagne, and, although Carloman's territories were easier to defend than those of Charlemagne, they were also poorer in income.

After the death of Clovis I in 511, Soissons was made the capital of one of the four kingdoms into which his states were divided.

Eventually, the kingdom of Soissons disappeared in 613 when the Frankish lands were amalgamated under Clotaire II.

* The saints Crispin and Crispinian were martyred c. 286 at Soissons for preaching Christianity to the local Gauls.

The comtes de Soissons were addressed at court as Monsieur le Comte and their wives as Madame la Comtesse.

Among her noted clients were countess de Soissons, duchess de Bouillon ; Comtesse de Gramont (" la belle Hamilton "), François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg, princesse Marie Louise Charlotte de Tingry, marchioness Benigne d ' Alluye, countess Claude Marie du Roure, count de Clermont-Lodéve, countess Jacqueline de Polignac, duchess Antoinette de Vivonne, Marquis Louis de Cessac, Marquis Antoine de Feuquieres and Marechal de la Ferthe.

Leo and his wife, whom he married at Cyprus in May, 1369, Marguerite of Soissons, daughter of Jean de Soissons and wife, were crowned at Sis on July 26 or September 14, 1374, according to both the Latin and Armenia rites.

Ives Nesle, Count of Soissons ( House of Nesle ), Walter of Falkenberg ( Saint-Omer ) and Ralph Merle, Baron from Tripoli were proposed as candidates however, but no decision was made, so they asked Emperor Manuel I to determine her a spouse.

When the federates from Marseilles arrived, on their way to the camp at Soissons, the faubourgs were to meet them, and then repair, unexpectedly, to the château.

These clerks, whose ordination was regarded as invalid by Hincmar and his adherents, were condemned in 853 at the council of Soissons, and the decisions of that council were confirmed in 855 by Pope Benedict III.

The Suessiones were a Belgic tribe of Western Belgium in the 1st century BC, inhabiting the region between the Oise and the Marne, based around the present-day city of Soissons.

At the time, there were rumours saying that she had been poisoned by the notorious intrigante Olympia Mancini, Countess of Soissons, at the behest of Mariana, the dowager queen, because Marie Louise had not given birth to any children.

In a synod held at Trosly, in the Diocese of Soissons, in 909, sharp complaints were made ( ch.

The Reims windows still used the same ' two lancets plus oculus ' pattern ( as in the Soissons example above ) but now the glass panels were held between narrow stone mullions made up of carefully shaped lengths of masonry ( fitted together with mortar and metal pins ) quite distinct from the wall surrounding them.

After the disastrous final German offensive, tanks were used at the Battle of Soissons and the Battle of Amiens, which ended the stalemate imposed by trench warfare on the Western Front, and thus effectively ended the war.

They were fighting against the Austrasian mayor of the palace, Charles Martel, but after the defeat of Chilperic at Soissons that year, he made peace with Charles by surrendering to him the Neustrian king and his treasures.

The western kingdom of Neustria continued to be governed from Soissons until all Franks were once more unified under the Neustrian king Clotaire II in 613.

They fought during the Battle of Belleau Wood, Soissons, and the Meuse-Argonne campaign and were twice awarded the French Croix de guerre with Palm.

Henri IV allowed him the possession of Chalon-sur-Saône, of Seurre and Soissons for three years, made his son Henry governor of the Île-de-France and paid a large indemnity.

In the small-capacity network of waterways, the Aisne and the Canal latéral à l ' Aisne ( Aisne lateral canal ) give access to the agricultural towns of Soissons and Vailly-sur-Aisne, both large exporters of cereals.

As the youngest son of a cadet branch of the royal dynasty, Louis could not expect a large patrimony, but was allotted the countship of Soissons from among the Bourbon estates inherited from his paternal great-grandmother, Marie de Luxembourg.