The name "Guise" is derived from the Celtic word "coat" still in use in the Breton language, the word means "forest". The town is an ancient town, which were found many ancient fragments such as Celtic and Roman coins stones. The current Saint-Eloi was a Roman road.
The town is nestled in the valley of Vandy and extends to the banks of the River Aisne. It is surrounded by woods and forests giving it a wild and rustic.
Lords of Guise had a part of the forest of Compiegne, that King John withdrew them, in the 14th century because of felony. This place was within the County Offemont.
The cure, dedicated to St. Martin, was conferred by the cathedral chapter of Soissons, which the bishop Manasses gave it to 1168.
Cuise is one of the villages which had suffered most of the peasant, the castle was besieged by Jacques in 1358.
The village was an appointment hunting was given by the kings knights, Governors of St. John. Jean de Guise had, in 1338, the land of Guise, whose castle was in ruins. At his death, the land was divided between his three children: Enguerand Cuise kept the castle, half the field with all its rights. Adam received the lordship of Lamotte and the Mount of Guise, Mary had Genancourt with val des Bruyères and woods which today away from Chesnoy.
Ferry de Guise, son and heir of Enguerand of Mary, gave way in 1399, the Duke of Valois, by her aunt, including Prince made this September 21, 1400, to Celestine of St. Peter in Chartres. The elder branch of the lords of Guise died in 1445, and came to the area of Brumière Louis, Lord of Breuil.
In 1530, Nicolas de Rony, Lord of Gandhinagar, bought of John Brumière of the combined estates of Guise and Breuil, and yielded, April 9, 1539, the first to Guy de Belloy, who sold it on July 30 of same year, François de Montmorency. It recognized the people of Guise and Breuil, a right of grazing on pastures, heaths and marshes of the manor.
Daisy Ventadour, widow of Henri de Montmorency sold in 1610, all rights to the land to Charmolue Gilles de Compiègne.
Cooks came in 1670, Nicolas Pasquier, son of Charmolue, and in 1691, Sir Joseph Leféron, master of waters and forests of Compiegne (Graves).
