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AMBACIA VICVS - AMBOISE (Loir-et-Cher)

(7th-8th century)

Amboise (etymologically "between two waters", the Loire and the Amasse) is a city of Indre-et-Loire located on the banks of the Loire, in the district of Tours and the Center region. For some, Amboise may have been the initial religious and commercial center of the Turones tribe. At the beginning of the 6th century, permanent rivalries, both territorial and religious, opposed the Salian Franks, Catholics, led by Clovis, who occupied the north of Gaul, and the Visigoths, Arians, led by Alaric II, who occupied the South West. In an attempt to put an end to it, the king of the Ostrogoths, Theodoric the Great, wrote letters to the two protagonists to convince them to find an agreement.. This approach resulted in 504 in a meeting between the two kings which took place on the Golden Island of Amboise (currently Ile Saint Jean). The two rivals promised each other an eternal alliance which remained a dead letter, since the dispute was only settled by the death of Alaric II at the battle of Vouillé in 507. In 546 the lord of Amboise was Saint Baud bishop of Tours, without knowing exactly the nature of his dependency on King Clotaire I.. Then there is no more historical information until the middle of the 9th century.. Source: wikipedia. .