Cormontreuil

Cormontreuil is a municipality in the French department of Marne. The municipality had 6,458 inhabitants on January 1, 2019. The place is part of the arrondissement of Reims. It is part of the urban agglomeration of Reims. The earliest mention of the place, then still called Curtis Monasteriolis, dates from around 850. The territory of the municipality belonged to various abbeys. In 1159, the Abbey of Saint-Pierre-les-Dames financed the construction of the first church in Cormontreuil. In 1359, during the Hundred Years' War, all buildings in Cormontreuil and also in nearby hamlets were razed to the ground by the French in anticipation of the siege of Reims by the English army. In January 1360, the English lifted the siege due to a lack of supplies. The population of the hamlets around the city had fled, and it was not until the course of the 16th century that the region recovered. During that period, the church was rebuilt. In 1686, Cormontreuil, which until then had depended on the parish of Saint-Jean in Reims, became an independent parish. The place then had about 340 inhabitants.

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