[ANSTHRLD] Name check de LaTour

[Mike Wyvill]

  From the Wine Doctor website 
(http://www.thewinedoctor.com/tastingsprofile/latour.shtml):

At this time there stood a defensive battlement, the Tor à St-Lambert 
(the name of which mutates from Lambert, to Mambert and then Maubert 
through history), built by Gaucelme de Castillon in 1331. The Tor à 
St-Lambert was the scene of a battle between the warring Plantagenets 
and the French, a minor skirmish in the Caroline War, the second stage 
of the Hundred Years' War. It is this tower that gave its name to 
Latour, as evinced by the existence of a /seigneurie/ of the same name. 
The Sieur de Larsan held that title when he fled in 1453, following the 
defeat of the English at the Battle of Castillon, the closing chapter of 
116 years of English-French conflict, and sadly the tower was then razed 
to the ground. Nothing of it today remains, although the grandiose 
dovecot that today overlooks the vines (shown below), and which is 
commonly mistaken for the tower after which Latour is named, is said to 
be constructed using stone from the original edifice. This is a distinct 
possibility, although it should be noted that nearly two centuries 
separate the fall of one structure and the rising forth of the next.

In Barbara Tuchman's 'A Distant Mirror' she mentions Seigneur Geoffrey 
La Tour Landry several times.

EdV

On 9/3/2010 7:59 AM, Darnell Daniels wrote:
> I have a client that wishes the late period name de LaTour. I was able to find
> two references but they are conflicting. The client wishes the spelling to be de
> LaTour. The only thing that I can find in period refernce is Georges de La Tour
> (1593-1652) a painter. From the "The Catholic encyclopedia:
>
> an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline,
> and history of the Catholic Church, Volume 11" I found Father Pierre d'Arerez de
> La Tour (1696-1733). Does someone have a better reference for the spelling "de
> LaTour"?
>   
> Robert of Coleford
>
>
>
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