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  Articles - Anjou   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The latter having seized upon Nantes, of which the counts of Anjou held themselves to be suzerains, Fulk Nerra came and laid siege to it, routing Conan´s army at the battle of Conquereuil (27th of June 992) and re-establishing Nantes under his own suzerainty.
Then turning his attention to the count of Blois, he proceeded to establish a fortress at Langeais, a few miles from Tours, from which, thanks to the intervention of the king Hugh Capet, Odo failed to oust him.
Odo II was utterly defeated at Pontlevoy (6th of July 1016), and a few years later, while Odo was besieging Montboyau, Fulk surprised and took Saumur (1026).
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Archdiocese of Tours
It is historically certain that there were monks from Auvergne there in the sixth century, on whom Gregory of Tours imposed the Rule of St. Benedict and to whom he gave the relics of St. Julian of Brioude.
Hugh I, Abbot of Marmoutier from 1210 to 1226, organized the estates of Meslay and Louroux, which were models of agricultural exploitation, and began the reconstruction of the basilica.
The latter undertaking was hindered by the violent attacks made by the counts of Blois on the monks of Marmoutier.
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 Flanders, Brittany, Burgundy, Anjou, Normandy, Blois, Champagne, Toulouse, etc.
William, however, was killed in battle in 1128, otherwise he would have inherited England in 1135, instead of his cousin Stephen of Blois.
The County of Champagne was on the east side of the French Royal Domain, the Île de France, while the County of Blois was on the west side.
Hugh I is of the House of Châtillon, and is a relative of Reynald of Châtillon, Prince of Antioch.
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 counts of Anjou: French feudal coins
He also began the castle of Saumur in that time when Count Odo [of Blois] came to Anjou with his army and built his castle on the Onglée between the same city and the river Loire.
Fulk also fought two great battles in the open field: one on the plain of Conquereuil against Conan, count of Brittany, near the city of Nantes, which Conan tried to take from him.
He fought the other battle against the said Odo, a most powerful count, on the river Cher, at Pontlevoy.
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