Europe · High and late Middle Ages
County of Touraine
drawn on the map 1206–1304, 1363–1491
Comté de Touraine; capital Tours. Long contested between Blois and Anjou, it fell to the Angevins and then the Plantagenet empire before Philip II Augustus conquered it (1204).
- Shown on the map
- 1206–1304, 1363–1491 (2 periods)
- Peak area
- 10k km²
- Region
- Europe
Overview
Comté de Touraine; capital Tours. Long contested between Blois and Anjou, it fell to the Angevins and then the Plantagenet empire before Philip II Augustus conquered it (1204). Later erected into a duchy granted as an apanage to princes and favourites. Tours and the Loire valley became a favoured royal residence region in the 15th–16th centuries.
Common questions
- What was the County of Touraine?
- Comté de Touraine; capital Tours. Long contested between Blois and Anjou, it fell to the Angevins and then the Plantagenet empire before Philip II Augustus conquered it (1204).
- When is the County of Touraine shown on the map?
- The border data draws the County of Touraine 1206–1304, 1363–1491, in 2 separate periods. The source samples borders at fixed dates, so a span can begin late or run on past the end.
- How large was the County of Touraine?
- At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the County of Touraine covered about 10,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.
Sources
This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for each territory as the primary basis, cross-checked against Encyclopædia Britannica and specialist snippets, and flags entries built on unreliable foundations — the 911 treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte known only from Dudo of Saint-Quentin, and Arnaud Amalric's alleged order at Béziers attested only decades after the fact. The article this entry is anchored on:
- Wikipedia — Touraine en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touraine
This entry was last updated .
This entry was researched and drafted with AI from the sources above, and has not been reviewed by a historian. How entries are made
Text available under CC BY-SA 4.0: reuse it with a credit to The World Through Time and a link to this page. Passages drawing on the Wikipedia articles listed above are also licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 by their contributors.
Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).
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