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Champion (in Walloon Tchampion) is a section of the Belgian city of Namur, situated in the Walloon region in the province of Namur. It was a municipality in its own right before the fusion of municipalities of 1977. Until 1924, Champion and Cognelée, another section of Namur, formed a single municipality.

In the 19th century, emigrants named a village of Green Bay in the U.S. state of Winsconsin "Champion".

History
In 1289, in Champion, Guy of Dampierre, Count of Namur, who had full seignorial rights and jurisdiction, collected taxes on all those who were not burghers. According to the census of 1294, he owned almost 8000 acres of land in Champion and around 15,000 acres of the Grand Selles wood.

In 1366, the fief that included half of the Grand Selles wood and the advowson of Champion was sold but the seigniorial rights were apparently retained by the Count of Namur until he bequeathed them to the representative of high justice.

Toponymy
The original name of the village is thought to have been Campilo or Campilio. Over the centuries, the following names have been used for the locality: Chemplus or Chemplum (1127), Kemplus (1152), Champilhons (1234), Camplons (1237), Chanpilhon (1243), Champilhon (1497, 1558), Campilhon (1553) and finally, at the beginning of the 19th century, Champion-lez-Namur.

Champion might owe its name to:
 * the word Campus, meaning fight, camp and/or little field in late Latin
 * the word Campilus or Campilius, referring to the landlord of a rural property that surrounded a Gallo-Roman villa.

Localities that currently exist or previously existed are: Albuse, Bacou, Bauloye, Bois de Là-Haut, Comognes, Fond de Champion, Fooz, Grandes Salles, Hébette, Nouveau Monde, Pont d'Arquet, Sarrasins, Sart, Les Tombes.

The toponym "Les Tombes" shows that Champion's localisation is ancient and is related to the presence of tumuli that were razed during the construction of the E411 highway. There were four near the Tombes wood (south of Frizet) where some Roman captains were buried. The large number of tombs spread across Champion, Vedrin and Daussoulx indicates that there was an important population during the Gallo-Roman period and that glass and pottery production was prominent during the later Frankish period. Moreover, the road Chemin les Tombes, that connects Champion with Boninne, is a more recent reminder of these graves.

The toponym "Grandes Salles" is related to the great wood of the "Grande Salle" (in Champion) and the little wood of the Grande Salle (in Marchovelette), which constitute a forest spread over both localities. On 25 August 1281, the two brothers and knights Arnould and Othon de Walhian indicated that they had sold 28,000 acres of the "Grand Selve" wood to Guy of Dampierre, Count of Namur. The name of the wood comes from the Latin word silva, meaning a wooded area.

The congregation of the Nuns of Providence
The current congregation of the Nuns of Providence was created in 1836, after the purchase of the the castle of Champion-lez-Namur by Bishop Jean-Baptiste-Victor Kinet on 20 July 1836. The nuns took possession of the site on 17 August 1836 and, from that date it became the Institute of the congregation's mother house. Today, it is a large complex in bricks and blue stone that was extended and modified during the 19th and 20th centuries. This building is regarded as Champion's center and is used as a landmark.