Thourie

Thourie is a common French, located in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine and the area Brittany.

Geography

History

Thourie comes seems it of Latin “ turricula ” (small tower).

Thourie is quoted in an act written as of 845. Certain Raginbaldus makes donation with the Saint-Saver Abbey of Redon of the field of Munera, the Mine. The parish of Thourie depended formerly on old évêché on Rennes.

11th century until the end of the 15th century, the seigniory of Thourie concerned the châtellenie of Rougé (today in Loire-Atlantique). By succession, the seigniory of Thourie falls to François of Laval, baron de Châteaubriant, then in 1539 in Anne de Montmorency, uncle of the Admiral de Coligny, and finally with the princes of Condé until the Revolution.

The explorer Auguste Pavia died in Thourie in 1925.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Transmitting of Thourie

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of Ille-et-Vilaine

External bonds

Thourie on the site of the national geographical Institute
Thourie on the site of INSEE
Thourie on the site of Quid
Localization of Thourie on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Thourie on Mapquest

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