UTLO - Conference: History and life of a Provençal bailiwick: Toulon

Lecture by Henri RIBOT - archaeologist, professor, and historian.

Owned by the Viscounts of Marseille, the Toulon region had to adapt to the arrival of Catalan and then Angevin counts, as well as to the Gregorian Reform. It was in this latter context that Toulon truly came into being in the medieval world in 1261 as a small royal bailiwick dependent on the viguerie (administrative district) of Hyères, but nevertheless strong thanks to the lands of Toulon, Ollioules, Castellet, La Garde, Le Revest, La Valette, Tourris, Evenos, and Six-Fours, until Richelieu's ordinances made Toulon the great French naval port of the Mediterranean.