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Pierrefonds, Oise

French commune in Oise, Hauts-de-France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJun 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ818715 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pierrefonds (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁfɔ̃]) is a commune in the French department of Oise, Hauts-de-France, northern France, known for its Château de Pierrefonds.

History

The lords of Pierrefonds in the Middle Ages were:

Nivelon I (1047–1073)

Nivelon II (1073–1102)

Dreux (1102–1160)

Nivelon III (1160–1161)

Agatha (1161–1192)

Conon, Count of Soissons (1161–1182), her husband

Gaucher III of Châtillon (1192–1193), her cousin

Pierrefonds was sold to the crown in 1193.

Demography

See also

Communes of the Oise department

References

External links

"Pierrefonds" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Pierrefonds, Oise” is french commune in Oise, Hauts-de-France. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Pierrefonds, Oise and French, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1047, 1073, 1102, 1160—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Pierrefonds, Oise and French is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “french commune in Oise, Hauts-de-France” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q818715. VIAF identifies the subject as 124432610. Authority coordinates are 49.351, 2.980. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1047, 1073, 1102 and 1160.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pierrefonds, Oise” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.