Chambon-sur-Cisse

Chambon-sur-Cisse, municipality of Valencisse.

The village, which bore the name "Campus Bonus" in the 13th century, adopted the name Chambon-sur-Cisse in 1270. The origin of the name "Chambon" is the Gallic word "cambo", meaning "curve", the curve formed by the left bank of the Cisse. Chambon was the oldest possession of Marmoutier Abbey, one of the largest Benedictine monastic centers in the Carolingian Medieval West. Chambon has been under its jurisdiction since 832, the time of...