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- Marbais is located about 2 kilometres west of Sombreffe, about 10 kilometres west of Gembloux, and about 15 kilometres north of Charleroi. Today it is situated in the Belgian province of Brabant wallon, arrondissement Nivelles, commune Villers-la-Ville. In medieval times, the area lay between the duchy of Brabant and the county of Namur. Kessel records that the seigneurs de Marbais “possédaient au moyen-âge, tant dans le Brabant que le comté de Namur, des seigneuries très importantes”, suggesting that this explains why they appear “dans les diplômes tantôt comme vassaux des ducs de Brabant, tantôt comme vassaux des comtes de Namur”[1858]. They are shown in the present document, rather than in the document NAMUR, only because most of their hyperlinked connections are with other Brabant families.
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