Saintonge
Proper noun
Meaning
A habitational surname from French.
A former province of France, now part of Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
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The contemporary chronicler Giovanni Villani reports gossip that he had bound himself to King Philip IV of France by a formal agreement before his elevation, made at St. Jean d'Angély in Saintonge.
To enforce this Louis IX won the battle of Taillebourg in the Saintonge War together with Alphonse against a revolt allied with king Henry III of England, who also participated in the battle.
They abandoned their homes completely with the intention of settling among the Santones ( Saintonge ).
When first created, the commune of Saintes was assigned as the prefecture of the department (Saintes had previously been the capital of Saintonge).