Talk:Pineau d'Aunis
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"A priory known as Aunis that existed outside of the commune of Saumur"[edit]
This is garbled at some point. Saumur is not in the Aunis. An English equivalent to speaking of "a priory known as Aunis that existed outside of the commune of Saumur" would be "a priory known as Rutland that existed outside of Oakham" All physical traces of the two priories "d'Aunis", i.e. in the Aunis, that belonged to the Plantagenet foundation, Fontevraud Abbey, had disappeared by 1858, when P. Marchegay published two articles, "Chartes de Fontevraud concernant l'Aunis et La Rochelle", in Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes 19 1858:132-170 and 321-347. I have lightly scanned through both articles.
Charters remained, however, sometimes mentioning vignes and their locations, but never specifying the vines planted in them. The more important of the two was the priory of Sainte-Catherine de La Rochelle, at La Rochelle, the major seaport of the Aunis. The other was Saint-Bibien d'Argenson in the forest of Benon, in the parish of Vouhé.
But could a priory at Saint-Médard-d'Aunis, Saint-Ouen d'Aunis, Saint-Sauveur d'Aunis etc be intended?--Wetman (talk) 03:16, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
- Perhaps it did get garbled as I tried to avoid close-paraphrasing without having another source to confirmed exactly which priory it was. The exact text from Oz Clarke:
AgneCheese/Wine 03:53, 7 April 2013 (UTC)It is an old vine, and has been known since the Middle Ages; it takes it name from the Aunis priory near Saumur.