Cambrésis

Cambrésis (French: [kɑ̃bʁezi], Dutch: Kamerijk, German: Kammerich) is a former pagus and county of the medieval Holy Roman Empire, which constituted the Prince-Bishopric of Cambrai from the 11th to the 18th centuries.

It is now regarded as one of the "natural regions" of France, and roughly equivalent to the Arrondissement of Cambrai in department Nord.

[1][2] As a Roman cultural capital it maintained its importance as the seat of a bishop (which it became before 400[1]), whose jurisdiction stretched to medieval Hainaut and Brabant in the north.

[4] The German king Henry II transferred the comital rights to the bishop of Cambrai in 1007,[1] in line with the Ottonian policy of creating an Imperial Church System.

[7] The 1532 Imperial Register records Camerich in the Niderlendisch vnnd Westuelisch Krayß ('Netherlandish and Westphalian Circle') with the obligation of providing 44 cavalrymen and 164 infantrymen.

[9] In their 1654 Topographia Circuli Burgundici, part of Topographia Germaniae series, Martin Zeiler and Matthäus Merian the Elder described Cambrésis as the Stifft Camerich: 'Concerning the Prince-Bishopric of Camerich: formally, this [land] belongs to the [Holy] Roman Empire and to the Westphalian Circle, and in this book, it is also considered as such.

We will wait with the description of this little state until the entry on the city of Camerach, and now order this most distinguished place of these three lands according to the ABC.'