Saint-Maur-sur-Loire is a village of western France in the '' département'' of
Maine-et-Loire
Maine-et-Loire () is a department in the Loire Valley in the Pays de la Loire region in Western France. It is named after the two rivers, Maine and the Loire. It borders Mayenne and Sarthe to the north, Loire-Atlantique to the west, Indre-e ...
Gennes-Val-de-Loire
Gennes-Val-de-Loire (, literally ''Gennes- Valley of Loire'') is a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department of western France. The municipality was established on 1 January 2016 by merger the former communes of Gennes, Chênehutte-Trèves-Cunau ...
, about downstream from
Saumur
Saumur () is a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France.
The town is located between the Loire and Thouet rivers, and is surrounded by the vineyards of Saumur itself, Chinon, Bourgueil, Coteaux du Layon, etc.. Saumur statio ...
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History
Here allegedly Saint Maurus (but probably someone else) founded towards the middle of the 6th century
Glanfeuil Abbey
Glanfeuil Abbey, otherwise the Abbey of St Maurus (french: Abbaye de Glanfeuil, ''Abbaye Saint-Maur de Glanfeuil'', ''Abbaye de Saint-Maur-sur-Loire''), was a French Benedictine monastery founded in the 9th century in the village of Saint-Maur-sur ...
, the first Benedictine monastery in Gaul.
It was later reduced to ruins by the Normans; in anticipation of the disaster the relics of the saint were transferred to the abbey of Fosses (afterwards
Saint-Maur-des-Fossés
Saint-Maur-des-Fossés () is a commune in Val-de-Marne
Val-de-Marne (, "Vale of the Marne") is a department of France located in the Île-de-France region. Named after the river Marne, it is situated in the Grand Paris metropolis to the southea ...
). Saint-Maur-sur-Loire was afterwards restored and fortified; the extant remains consist of a part of the church (12th and 17th centuries) and buildings of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Saint-Maur was an independent commune until 1840, when it became part of
Saint-Georges-des-Sept-Voies
Saint-Georges-des-Sept-Voies () is a former commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Gennes-Val-de-Loire.Le Thoureil
Le Thoureil () is a village and former commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France. On 1 January 2016, the commune was merged into the new commune of Gennes-Val-de-Loire,Commune du Thoureil (49346) INSEE