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<h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>In 1062, Adela, wife of <a href="/facts/Baldwin_IV%2c_Count_of_Flanders/HpVlUpNU">Baldwin the Pius</a>, count of <a href="/facts/Flanders/JDsTRuR4">Flanders</a>, translated the bones of <a href="/facts/Saint_Sidronius/xFcQueTj">Saint Sidronius</a> from Rome to Messines.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> </p><p>Three battles were fought over the town during <a href="/facts/World_War_I/vITTUanQ">World War I</a> (1914–1918): </p> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Battle_of_Messines_(1914)/mmws2rkr">Battle of Messines (1914)</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Battle_of_Messines_(1917)/S7DPjFNU">Battle of Messines (1917)</a> and <a href="/facts/Mines_in_the_Battle_of_Messines_(1917)/uAb1Y4dg">Mines in the Battle of Messines</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Battle_of_the_Lys_(1918)/Fnx7SIRq">Battle of the Lys (1918)</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li> Media related to Mesen at Wikimedia Commons</li> <li><a href="http://www.mesen.be/">Official website</a> – in (in English, French, and Dutch)</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Wet tot toekenning van de titel van stad aan de gemeenten Beringen, Bilzen, Blankenberge, Borgloon, Ciney, Couvin, Damme, Geel, Genepiën, Gistel, Halen, Hamont-Achel, Hannuit, Harelbeke, Herk-de-Stad, Lo-Reninge, Mesen, Oudenburg, Peer, Scherpenheuvel-Zichem, Vilvoorde en Walcourt". www.ejustice.just.fgov.be (in Dutch). Belgian Official Gazette. 19 July 1985. Retrieved 22 April 2025. <a href="https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/eli/wet/1985/07/19/1985001298/staatsblad" target="_blank">https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/eli/wet/1985/07/19/1985001298/staatsblad</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Baring-Gould, Sabine (1897), The Lives of the Saints, vol. 7, July Pt. 1, London: J. C. Nimmo, p. 277, retrieved 4 August 2021 <a href="https://archive.org/details/TheLivesOfTheSaintsV07/page/n307/mode/2up" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/TheLivesOfTheSaintsV07/page/n307/mode/2up</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>