Saint Avertin

Saint-Avertin is a commune inside the Indre-et-Loire department in primary France. In the Gallo-Roman instances, a hamlet referred to as Vinciacum was set up close to quarries in which stones required for the building of Caesarodonum Tours had been extracted. The village took later the name of Vencay. In 1162, St. Thomas Beckett, Archbishop of Canterbury, took component to a council in Tours with a Scottish monk named Aberdeen 1120-1180. Becket become murdered within the cathedral of Canterbury upon King Henry II's request in 1170. Aberdeen decided to come back to Touraine and lived as an hermit in the timber of Cange.

The hermit, locally called Avertin, became well-known for his recovery abilties, specifically towards headache. The inhabitants of Vencay requested him to be their parish priest, which he regularly occurring. After his dying, he turned into buried within the parish church, which have become an area of pilgrimage. Vencay turned into renamed Saint-Avertin in 1371. Jean de Coningham - 1495, Captain of the Scottish Guard of King Louis XI, purchased in 1489 the citadel of Cange, and converted the old medieval citadel into a greater fine fort.