Editing Anderlecht (section)

===Origins and medieval times===
The first traces of human activity on the right bank of the [[Zenne|Senne]] date from the [[Stone Age]] and [[Bronze Age]]. The remnants of a [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] [[villa]] and of a [[Franks|Frankish]] [[necropolis]] were also found on the territory of Anderlecht.{{sfn|Thomas|Vanden Branden|De Waha|1999|p=3}} The first mention of the name ''Anderlecht'', however, dates only from 1047 under the forms ''Anrelech'', then ''Andrelet'' (1111), ''Andreler'' (1148), and ''Anderlech'' (1186). At that time, this community was already home to a [[chapter (religion)|chapter]] of [[canon (priest)|canons]]{{sfn|Thomas|Vanden Branden|De Waha|1999|p=4}} and to two feudal [[Manorialism|manors]], those of the powerful [[lord]]s of Aa and of Anderlecht.{{sfn|Thomas|Vanden Branden|De Waha|1999|p=6–7}}

[[File:Saint Guido Church (14).jpg|left|thumb|[[Collegiate Church of St. Peter and St. Guido]]]]

In 1356, the [[Count of Flanders]], [[Louis II, Count of Flanders|Louis II]], fought against [[Brussels]] on the territory of Anderlecht, in the so-called Battle of Scheut, supposedly over a monetary matter.<ref>Jean Baptiste Nicolas Coomans, ''Jeanne Goetghebuer : chronique brabançonne du XIVe siècle'' (in French), Brussels, Coomans, 1854, p.57</ref> Although he defeated his sister-in-law, the [[Duke of Brabant|Duchess of Brabant]], [[Joanna, Duchess of Brabant|Joanna]], and briefly took her title, she regained it the following year with the help of the [[Holy Roman Emperor]], [[Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles IV]]. In 1393, Joanna's [[charter]] made Anderlecht a part of Brussels. It is also around this time that the [[Collegiate Church of St. Peter and St. Guido|church]] of [[Guy of Anderlecht|Saint Guy]] was rebuilt in [[Brabantine Gothic]] style above an earlier [[Romanesque architecture|Romanesque]] [[crypt]].