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Poitiers [a] is a city on the river Clain in west-central France. It is a commune, the capital of the Vienne department and the historical center of Poitou Province. In 2021, it had a population of 90,240. Its conurbation had 134,397 inhabitants in 2021 and is the municipal center of an urban area of 281,789 inhabitants.
350-367 - Hilary of Poitiers first bishop of Poitiers. [1] 418 – Region of southwest Gaul ceded to Visigoths per treaty. [1] 507 – Battle of Vouillé fought near Poitiers; Franks win. [1] 552 – Holy Cross Abbey (Poitiers) founded. 732 – 10 October: Battle of Tours fought near Poitiers; Frankish forces defeat Mohammedans. [1]
Coin of Richard the Lionheart as Count of Poitiers; it bears the inscriptions RICARDVS REX / PICTAVIENSIS. Carolingian Counts. Bernard I (814-828) Renaud (795–843) Bernard II (840 - 844) Emenon or Emeno (828 – 839), brother of Bernard II; Ranulph I (839–866) Ranulph II (866–890), [1] son of Ranulph I; Gauzbert (857–892) Robert I (866 ...
The Battle of Poitiers was fought on 19 September 1356 between a French army commanded by King John II and an Anglo-Gascon force under Edward, the Black Prince, during the Hundred Years' War. It took place in western France, 5 miles (8 km) south of Poitiers , when approximately 14,000 to 16,000 French attacked a strong defensive position held ...
Poitou (UK: / ˈ p w ʌ t uː / PWUH-too, US: / p w ɑː ˈ t uː / pwah-TOO, [2] [3] [4] French:; Latin: Pictaviensis, Pictavia; Poitevin: Poetou) was a province of west-central France whose capital city was Poitiers. Both Poitou and Poitiers are named after the Pictones Gallic tribe.
Poitiers was the regional capital. Other important cities were La Rochelle, Niort, Angoulême, Châtellerault, Saintes, Rochefort and Royan. Poitou-Charentes was merged with Aquitaine and Limousin to form the new administrative region of It is part of the new region Nouvelle-Aquitaine on January 1, 2016. [2]
The former Palace of Justice in Poitiers, France. The Palace of Poitiers was the palace of the Counts of Poitiers and subsequent Dukes of Aquitaine in Poitiers, in Poitou, western France. It is a medieval testimony of the Plantagenet style of architecture. Until 2019, this building was used as a courthouse.
The Battle of Tours, [6] also called the Battle of Poitiers and the Battle of the Highway of the Martyrs (Arabic: معركة بلاط الشهداء, romanized: Maʿrakat Balāṭ ash-Shuhadā'), [7] was fought on 10 October 732, and was an important battle during the Umayyad invasion of Gaul.