The ''Liber de compositione castri Ambaziae et ipsius dominorum gesta'' (Book about the Construction of the Castle of Amboise and the Deeds of Its Lords) is an anonymous 12th-century

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chronicle of the early history of the lords and castle of Amboise. It begins with an account of

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and its historical narrative proceeds from

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(died 44 BC) down to Louis VII (AD 1137–1180).Nicholas L. Paul, "An Angevin Imperial Context for the Amboise–Anjou Historical Narratives Program", ''Anglo-Norman Studies, XLI: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2018'' (Boydell & Brewer, 2019), fro
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"Liber de compositione castri Ambaziae et ipsius dominorum gesta"
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Louis Halphen Louis Sigismond Isaac Halphen (4 February 1880, Paris – 7 October 1950, Paris) was a French medieval specialist and the author of many important books over a long career. He was noteworthy as the editor of a modern edition of the famous classic E ...

and

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, eds., ''Chronique des comtes d'Anjou et des seigneurs d'Amboise'' (Paris: Auguste Picard, 1913), pp. 1–24. *"Liber de compositione castri Ambaziæ", in Paul Marchegay and André Salmon, eds., ''Chroniques d'Anjou'', Volume 1 (Cambridge University Press, 2010

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, pp. 3–33.

References

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