up the Loire again in 852 and sacked Angers, Tours and Marmoutier Abbey. During the Middle Ages, Tours consisted of two juxtaposed and competing centres...

Saint-Martin de Marmoutier), monks, Diocese of Tours (Tours, Indre-et-Loire) Marmoutier Abbey (Alsace) (Abbaye de Marmoutier), monks (Marmoutier, Bas-Rhin)...

nine priories belonging to the Marmoutier abbey in the Tours diocese. In 993, the Archbishop of Tours, Archembault de Sully, made a donation of the Saint-Sulpice...

Geoffrey], to whom he surrendered Tours with Chinon and Langeais, excluding, however, the monastery of Marmoutier." Henry and Geoffrey became estranged...

Abbey, formally called the Abbey of St. Martin of Ligugé (French: Abbaye Saint-Martin de Ligugé), is a French Benedictine monastery in the Commune of Ligugé...

family was pious and Odo was a lay abbot of St. Martin's Abbey, Tours, and Marmoutier Abbey. There were also political reasons, in the Loire region, for...

(1676-1737) Auteur du texte (1920). Abbayes et prieurés de l'ancienne France,.... 8, Province ecclésiastique de Tours / par le R. P. Dom J.-M. Besse.{{cite...

Revolution. On 25 January 1677 a great fire destroyed many houses and the Hôtel de Ville; its replacement dates from 1741 to 1752. Many early structures were...

Abbey of Saint-Pierre de la Couture (French: Abbaye Saint-Pierre de la Couture) was a Benedictine monastery in Le Mans. All that survives of it is the...

historiques". Ministère de la Culture. "Liste des monuments pour lesquels des secours ont été demandés" (PDF). Ministère de la culture. Choay, Françoise...

de l'ancienne France, t. VIII: Province ecclésiastique de Tours, Paris/Ligugé, Picard/Abbaye de Ligugé, 1920 (read online archive), p. 305. (fr) Michel...