• Thumbnail for Château de Plessis-lez-Tours
    Culture. Château de Plessis-lez-Tours. View of the Royal Château de Plessis-lèz-Tours three wings in 1699 View of the Royal Château de Plessis-lèz-Tours from...
    3 KB (350 words) - 13:50, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Châteaux of the Loire Valley
    were built on hilltops, such as the Château d'Amboise, while the only one built in the riverbed is the Château de Montsoreau. Many had exquisite churches...
    29 KB (685 words) - 15:35, 24 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Louis XI
    independent feudal lords, and at the time of his death in the Château de Plessis-lez-Tours, he had united France and laid the foundations of a strong monarchy...
    34 KB (4,447 words) - 15:18, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Charles de Solier, comte de Morette
    daughter: Marie de Solier (1520–) He died 1 February 1552 at Le Plessis les Tours and was buried at the Église Saint-Grégoire des Minimes, Tours. Richardson...
    6 KB (414 words) - 05:17, 23 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Charles II, Duke of Bourbon
    among them one concerning the liberty of the Gallican Church at Château de Plessis-lèz-Tours. From 1472 to 1476, he was incumbent as the papal legate at Avignon...
    13 KB (1,333 words) - 18:19, 27 April 2024
  • Charles VII was forced to flee from Paris. Tours (1444–1527), Louis XI made the Château de Plessis-lez-Tours his residence. Paris (1528–1589), Francis...
    4 KB (477 words) - 17:44, 2 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Jeanne d'Albret
    Francis who took over her education, Jeanne was raised in the Château de Plessis-lèz-Tours in the Loire Valley (Touraine), thus living apart from her parents...
    30 KB (3,486 words) - 03:21, 4 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Charles VIII of France
    (20 March 1498). She died on the day of her birth at Château de Plessis-lez-Tours. Buried at Tours Cathedral. The 1671 English play Charles VIII of France...
    24 KB (2,628 words) - 17:26, 30 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Priory of St. Cosmas (La Riche)
    the neighboring Château de Plessis-lèz-Tours. He rebuilt the church and the Prior's House in the Gothic style. From 1565 to 1585 Pierre de Ronsard (the "Prince...
    5 KB (542 words) - 04:11, 4 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Treaty of Tours
    The Treaty of Tours was an attempted peace agreement between Henry VI of England and Charles VII of France, concluded by their envoys on 28 May 1444 in...
    16 KB (2,134 words) - 09:42, 26 January 2024