. Capital of a Frankish kingdom destroyed by Clovis in the early 6th century, Cambrai (Nord) was attached to Lotharingia in the division of Charlemagne’s empire in 843. The cathedral of Cambrai, destroyed in the aftermath of the French...

For the rural Canadian community, see Cambray, Ontario. Cambrai (Dutch: Kamerijk; old spelling Cambray) is a French town and commune, in the Nord département, of which it is a sous-préfecture. Cambrai is the seat of an archdiocese whose jurisdiction...