Thouars

Thouars is a commune in the Deux-Sevres department in western France. It is on the River Thouet. Its population are called Thouarsais. Although there's evidence of human habitation here 5,000 years ago, it's far simplest within the 7th century that the metropolis seems inside the ancient file. In the 760s, Thouars discovered itself in Aquitaine, the most robust fortress in the entire region in step with modern-day chroniclers.

This was a violent decade as Duke Waifre, struggling to hold the independence of Aquitaine, fought towards the expansionist objectives of the French King, Pepin the Short. In 762, followed by using his son, the destiny Charlemagne, regarded out of doors Thouars. He destroyed the Gallo-Roman town and torched the fort. In the 9th century the primary of a line of viscounts took price of Thouars: he and his successors might manage the fiefdom for more than 5 centuries until the cease of the 14th century.

The earliest of these Viscounts of Thouars for whom statistics survives is Geoffrey I, known as the founding father of the Thouars dynasty. Located at the south of Anjou and at the frontier with Aquitaine, the Viscountcy of Thouars became a rich fiefdom with a strategic area extending from Upper Poitou all the manner to the coast.