Wavrin is located near Wicres. It was one of 4 places designated as "court-official of Flanders".In NOBLESSE, the Wavrin genealogy on page 1039 showed that the first of the line was Thierry de Wavrin, Senechal de Flandre in 1066. He was Seigneur de Saint Venant and de Malannoy in Artois from his wife who was the heiress of St. Venant. The lands of Beaufremez were part of the Chatellenie de -ille, and that the family Beaufremez, originating as de Wavrin took the name of the estates when they acquired them.