From the "cordelier" Jacques de Guise, Jean Wauquelin wrote in his "Chronicles of Hainault", a manuscript of the 15th century, that "Bavo", a cousin of Priam while fleeing the city of Troy, after many adventures found a hospitable land where he built a city that was called "Belges"—the current Bavay. According to Wauquelin, seven roads, dedicated to the planets Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Saturn, Mercury, the Sun, and the Moon, left from seven temples in the city. The introduction of an elective monarchy signaled the decline of the "city of Belges" and the people of the city lost their unity and could not resist the Roman invasions. This episode has been considered a fable by most historians since the 19th century and even more so the bloody infighting which opposed the reign of "Belges" Queen Ursa by the former King Ursus.