Dentergem

Markegem is a village in the Belgian municipality of Dentergem. The population is approximately 760 people. The oldest mention is in 1103, when it was again confirmed that the parish rights (for 2/3) belonged to the North French Benedictine abbey of Saint-Amands-les-Eaux. The Saint-Amands diocese in Kortrijk acted as an intermediary from the 10th century; after the chapel in Roeselare. Likely since King Dagobert, the last vigorous Merovingian, in the 630s, Markegem was ecclesiastically linked with the extensive Wingene. With feudalization from the second half of the 9th century, the later village lordship (with the church on it) became attached to the lordship of Sint-Amantsche in Wingene. The village lordship was split off from the larger Sint-Amands area with the large farm Ronneke, a Celtic settlement, meaning "ring-shaped fortification," where from the 5th-6th century the Frank Marko and his people settled: Markingahaim. In 1996, the thorough village history "Markegem, the delightful village" appeared (by Frans Hollevoet), as it was called in 1735 in the Flemish translation of Sanderus' famous "Flandria Illustrata" (1641). In 2007, a small illustrated brochure (approx. 20 p.) was published, titled "Markegem's earliest history and its toponyms deciphered."

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