page_title: Pagus Lomacensis
section_title: Territory
hierarchical_section_title: Pagus Lomacensis / Territory
caption_attribution_description: English: This article shows medieval church jurisdictions under the bishop of Liège in what is now Belgium, with a focus upon the deaconeries of Condroz and Famenne.
context_page_description: The Lomme gau or pagus, often referred to using Latin, Pagus Lomacensis, or German Lommegau, was an early Austrasian Frankish territorial division. The oldest Latin spellings were Laumensis or Lomensis. It included the city of Namur, and the region where the County of Namur later came to form in the 10th century.
  In modern terms Lomme stretched from north to south in what is now central Wallonia in French-speaking Belgium. It corresponds roughly with the part of the modern Province of Namur which is west of the Meuse. It also stretched into what is now Walloon Brabant in the north, the Belgian Province of Hainaut in the west, and to the south, into what is now France.
context_section_description: A major part of the pagus was enclosed by the Sambre and Meuse rivers, a region sometimes referred to in French as the Entre-Sambre-et-Maas (fr) region. The Sambre joins the Maas at the city of Namur, in the northeast corner of the pagus. 
  South of the Sambre, near Namur, are rolling hills, and in modern times it is considered to be part of the geographical Condroz, though it was not part of the medieval pagus of Condroz, which was originally only east of the Meuse.
  The southern part of the Lommegau is today referred to as the Fagne region. It approaches the Ardennes and is more heavily hilly and forested, and is similarly often grouped with the lands over the Meuse to the east, in the geographically similar Famenne region, which was originally a subpagus of the Condroz. Also the church jurisdictions of the Fammene and Fagnes were joined under a single archdeanery.
  In the west and south of these two parts of the Lommegau, were forested and hilly areas which help define a natural boundary between France and Belgium. In the late Roman times these forests also helped define the boundary between the Roman provinces of Belgica secunda and Germania secunda, and therefore they later helped define the medieval church archdioceses of Reims and Cologne, which were partly based upon Roman provinces. 
  During the evolutions of the Frankish kingdoms, the southern frontier also remained an important one, defining the boundary between Neustria and Austrasia in Merovingian times. In Carolingian times it continued to form the boundary of Western Francia which evolved into France.
caption: Late medieval catholic jurisdictions of Condroz and Famenne, within the archbishopric of Liège.
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