FSV Trier-Tarforst, intera alia football and rugby International relations Trier is a fellow member of the QuattroPole union of cities, along with Luxembourg, Saarbrücken and Metz (neighbouring countries: Luxembourg and France). Twin towns – sister cities Trier is twinned with: Metz, France (1957) Gloucester, England, UK (1957) Ascoli Piceno, Italy (1958) 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands (1968) Pula, Croatia (1971) Fort Worth, United States (1987) Weimar, Germany (1990) Nagaoka, Japan (2006) Xiamen, China (2010) Namesakes New Trier Township, Illinois, USA, originally settled by people from Trier. New Trier, Minnesota, USA, settled by people from Trier about 1856. New Trier High School, an Illinois school named after Trier. Notable people Eucharius (died c. 250), first bishop of Trier Constantius Chlorus (c. 250–306), Roman emperor Maximian (c. 250–310), Roman emperor Valerius (died 320), second bishop of Trier Helena (c. 250–330), saint, mother of Constantine the Great (residence in Trier by tradition) Athanasius of Alexandria (296/298–373), saint (in exile ca. 335) Paulinus (died 358), bishop of Trier Valentinian I (321–375), Roman emperor Ausonius (c. 310–395), Roman consul and poet Ambrose (c. 340–397), saint Apronia of Toul (6th century), nun and saint Saint Modesta (died c. 680), founder and Abbess of the monastery of Oeren Kaspar Olevianus (1536–1587), theologian Heinrich Marx (1777–1838), lawyer, father of Karl Marx Henriette Marx (1788–1863), mother of Karl Marx Johann Anton Ramboux (1790–1866), painter Jenny Marx (1814–1881), revolutionary, drama critic Karl Marx (1818–1883), social philosopher and revolutionary August Beer (1825–1863), scientist Frederick A. Schroeder (1833–1899), American politician, mayor of Brooklyn Hans am Ende (1864–1918), painter Ludwig Kaas (1881–1952), Catholic priest and politician (Zentrum) Oswald von Nell-Breuning (1890–1991), theologian Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970), General and French statesman, as commander of a battalion of Chasseurs during the French occupation of Rhineland Reinhard Heß (1904–1998), painter and glass painter Wolf Graf von Baudissin (1907–1993), general, military planner and peace researcher Peter Thullen (1907–1996), German-Ecuadorian mathematician Klaus Barbie (1913–1991), SS and Gestapo functionary Gitta Lind (1925–1974), singer Reinhold Bartel (1926–1996), operatic tenor Ernst Huberty (born 1927), sports reporter Günther Steines (1928–1982), athlete Franz Grundheber (born 1937), baritone Otmar Seul (born 1943), lawyer, professor Helga Zepp-LaRouche (born 1948), journalist and politician Xavier Bout de Marnhac (born 1951), French general, former commander of KFOR Robert Zimmer (born 1953), philosopher and essayist Ernst Ulrich Deuker (born 1954), musician François Weigel (born 1964), French pianist, composer and conductor Eric Jelen (born 1965), tennis player Martin Bambauer (born 1970), church musician