Named after the saint venerated in Maastricht, a city of the Netherlands, imported worship, the golden age of Britain, when it traded with the North of Europe.
Before the Revolution Saint-Servais was merely a chapel of the truce Burthulet dependent Parish Duault.
The town was formalized in 1869.
Pairing: Saint Servatius is twinned with the town in the Irish Ballyferriter Dingle peninsula.