Note 418 — Chapter III · ANJOU AND BLOIS. 987–1044.
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Tract. de Revers. B. Martini, in Salmon, Supplément aux Chron. de Touraine, pp. 14–34; copied in Gesta Cons. (see note A to chapter ii. above). On the date, see Mabille, “Inv. Norm.” (Bibl. de l’Ecole des Chartes, series vi. vol. v. p. 190). This device of the citizens of Tours was several times imitated elsewhere; e.g. by the monks of Saumur with the body of S. Docelinus, when Fulk Nerra besieged the place in 1025 (Hist. S. Flor. Salm., Marchegay, Eglises, p. 277); and by the monks of S. Peter at Sens, against the same opponent, in 1032 (Chron. S. Petr. Senon. ad ann., Rer. Gall. Scriptt., vol. xi. p. 196). The former failed, the latter succeeded.