Tournai (Parliament of England constituency)

Tournai (French pronunciation: [tuʁnɛ]), was a possible former constituency of the Parliament of England.

Tournai, the only town (now city) in modern Belgium ever to have been ruled by England, was under English control from around 23 September 1513 (after its capture from France during the 1513 Battle of Guinegate) and remained so until its return in 1519 to France upon the payment of 600,000 crowns[citation needed][disputed – discuss] following the Treaty of London (1518).

Aged 22, Henry VIII entered the town ceremonially on 25 September 1513.

[3] Groat and half-groat coins were issued without a portrait of King Henry VIII but did display his name.

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