Condroz

The Condroz (French pronunciation: [kɔ̃dʁo]) is a natural region in Wallonia, the French-speaking part of Belgium, located between the Ardennes and the Meuse.

[1] In medieval records, the Pagus Condrustis or Condrustensis started to appear again from 747, in an area consistent with the old country of the Condrusi mentioned by Caesar.

South of the Famenne region is and was rougher and more wooded terrain of the Ardennes, which today stretches into France and Luxembourg.

[7] In 870 this area was specifically described in the Treaty of Meerssen, when the Condroz was allocated for some decades to the kingdom of the western Franks (from which France evolved).

By 1497 the medieval jurisdictions, which were reformed in 1559, an archdeaconry of the Famenne had been created from the southern part (together with the Chimay deanery from the Lomme pagus west of the Meuse).

The natural regions of Belgium
Condroz
Sub-regions of the Condroz
Southern Belgium, showing the early medieval places recorded as being in the Pagus Condrustis and the Falminna (Famenne). The yellow dots are in the Pagus Condrustis (medieval Condroz) and the red stars are in the Famenne. The modern province of Namur is in yellow.
Late medieval catholic jurisdictions of Condroz and Famenne