was Thibaut de Marly (r. 1235–47), a descendant of the Montmorency family later
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VENDÔME
. The pagus Vindocinensis was located around the Gallo-Roman oppidum of Vinocium.
In the 10th century, Vendôme (Loir-et-Cher) fell into the hands of the Robertian family,
and Hugh Capet granted it, along with Paris, Melun, and Corbeil, to Count Bouchard le
Venerable (d. 1007), who retired to the abbey of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés. Eudes, one of
his fellow monks, wrote his vita ca. 1050. By the end of the 11th century, Vendôme was
endowed with a castle on the plateau above the Loir, which was substantially altered in
the 14th century and again in the 17th. Within its walls are the foundations of the 11th-
century church of Saint-Georges, which was destroyed in the Revolution. The most
important vestige of the 14th-century fortifications is the Porte Saint-Georges, a gateway
flanked by two semicircular towers with battlements and machicolations. Vendôme’s
abbey of La Trinité, founded possibly in the 9th century by Geoffroi Martel, became the
focus of a major pilgrimage to venerate a tear that Christ shed at the tomb of Lazarus.
The counts of Vendôme by the mid-11th century had become vassals of the counts of
Anjou and thus, a century later, of the kings of England. They took part in the cru
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