Tours

1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun.

Tours, Turon•m Caesarodum•n, Turones, Turonium, a great City in France; the Capital of Touraine, and an Archbishops See. It stands upon the River Loyre, which is there covered by a very long beautiful Stone Bridge. On the other side it is washed by the Cher toward the South. So that it stands between the two Rivers; almost twenty four Leagues from Orleans to the West, eighteen from Poictiers to the North, and from Mans to the South. A Place of great Beauty. Clotild, King of France, died here in 537. And Carloman in •85. Near this Place Charles Martell overthrew an Army of four hundred thousand Sarazens; three hundred seventy five thousand of which perished in that Battel, in 726; the Germans and Lombards joyning with the Francks. Pope Alexander III. with Lewis VII. King of France, called le Jenue, seventeen Cardinals, a hundred and twenty four Bishops, and four hundred and fourteen Abbots, celebrated a Council here in 1153. against the Emperor. The Protestants of France were first called Hugonots in this City.