Norse Invasions and the Defence of Tours
Unlike Tours’s earlier salvation from Saracens by Charles Martel, no such champion arose to defend the city against the Norsemen.…
Wanderings of the Body of S. Martin
For years the canons, who had replaced the original monks in Alcuin’s time, lived in constant fear of desecration befalling their patron’s body.…
The Legend of the Subvention of S. Martin
The story of the second reversion was later superseded by a famous legend known as the “subvention of S. Martin.…
Founding of Châteauneuf and the Castellum S. Martini
When the canons rebuilt the abbey, they encircled it with a wall and obtained from Charles the Simple a charter creating a new fortified borough exempt from both bishop and count…
The Angevin Counts and the Abbey of S. Martin
The counts of Anjou, following the ducal house, sought a footing in the neighbourhood of Tours and from an early period connected themselves with the abbey.…
Geoffrey Martel’s Campaign against Tours
Tours was the point toward which Fulk the Black had worked all his life; when he left his son to complete his labours, the point was almost reached.…
The Siege of Tours in 1044
The city held out for a whole year, its inhabitants seemingly left by their count to defend themselves.…
Lisoy’s Warning and Military Counsel
Lisoy, a special legacy from Fulk the Black to his son, was the most intelligent and devoted of Fulk’s adherents.…
The Battle at Noit
Geoffrey took Lisoy’s advice. While Lisoy returned to Amboise, Geoffrey made prayers and vows to S.…
Capture of Theobald of Blois
The men of Amboise, hottest in pursuit, drove Theobald with some five or six hundred knights into a wood called Braye, from which horsemen could not extricate themselves.…
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