pressing interest to make good the claim thus placed in his hands. [414] Fredegar. Contin., l. ii. c. 108 (_Rer. Gall. Scriptt._, vol. ii. p. 454); Chron. Fontanell. a. 732 (_ib._ p. 660), etc. [415] See Ann. Bertin., _Rer. Gall. Scriptt._, vol. vii. p. 107. [416] Chron. Petr. Fil. Bechin., in Salmon, _Chron. de Touraine_, p. 40. Chron. Tur. Magn. a. 991 (_ib._ p. 93). See _Gall. Christ._, vol. xiv. col. 154. [417] For the whole history of the wanderings and the festivals of S. Martin, and of the sieges of Tours by the northmen, see an article by M. Mabille, “Les Invasions normandes dans la Loire et les pérégrinations du corps de S. Martin,” in _Bibl. de l’Ecole des Chartes_, series vi. vol. v. pp. 149–194. [418] _Tract. de Revers. B. Martini_, in Salmon, _Supplément aux Chron. de Touraine_, pp. 14–34; copied in _Gesta Cons._ (see note A to chapter ii. above). On the date, see Mabille, “Inv. Norm.” (_Bibl. de l’Ecole des Chartes_, series vi. vol. v. p. 190). This device of the citizens of Tours was several times imitated elsewhere; _e.g._ by the monks of Saumur with the body of S. Docelinus, when Fulk Nerra besieged the place in 1025 (_Hist. S. Flor. Salm._, Marchegay, _Eglises_, p. 277); and by the monks of S. Peter at Sens, against the same opponent, in 1032 (Chron. S. Petr. Senon. ad ann., _Rer. Gall. Scriptt._, vol. xi. p. 196). The former failed, the latter succeeded. [419] Charter of Charles the Simple, a. 918, in _Rer. Gall. Scriptt._, vol. ix. p. 540. For the history of the “Castellum S. Martini,” and the topography of Tours and Châteauneuf, see “Topographie de la Touraine,” by M. E. Mabille, in _Bibl. de l’Ecole des Chartes_, series v. vol. v. pp. 321–366; and for the topography and history of the whole district from the earliest times see previous articles under the same title, series v. vol. iii. pp. 309–332, vol. iv. pp. 388–428, and vol. v. pp. 233–258.