Editing Amboise (section)

==History==
[[File:Amboise colombage.jpg|thumb|left|Timber-framed houses in Amboise]]

[[Clovis I]] ({{c.}} 466 – 511) and the [[Visigoths]] signed a peace treaty of alliance with the [[History of Auvergne|Arvernians]] in 503, which assisted him in his defeat of the Visigothic kingdom in the [[Battle of Vouillé]] in 507.

[[Joan of Arc]] passed through in 1429 on her way to Orleans to the [[Battle of Patay]].

Château du [[Clos Lucé]] was the residence of [[Leonardo da Vinci]] between 1516 and his death in 1519. Da Vinci died in the arms of King Francis I,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.lascarpublishing.com/leonardo/ |title=Leonardo da Vinci &#124; A chinese scholar lost in renaissance Italy |access-date=2015-10-20 |archive-date=2018-07-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180726005921/http://www.lascarpublishing.com/leonardo/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> and he was buried in a crypt near the [[Château d'Amboise]]. The house has lost some of its original parts, but it still stands today containing a museum of da Vinci's work and inventions, and overlooks the river [[Loire]].

The [[Amboise conspiracy]] was the conspiracy of [[Louis, Prince of Condé (1530–1569)|Condé]] and the [[Huguenots]] in 1560 against [[Francis II of France|Francis II]], [[Catherine de' Medici]] and the [[House of Guise|Guises]].

The Château at Amboise was home to [[Mary, Queen of Scots|Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots]], for much of her early life, being raised there at the French court of [[Henry II of France|Henry II]]. She arrived in France from Scotland in 1548, aged six, via the French king's favourite palace at [[Saint-Germain-en-Laye]] near Paris, and remained in France until 1561, when she returned to her homeland—sailing up the [[Firth of Forth]] to [[Edinburgh]] on 15 August that year.

The [[Edict of Amboise]] (1563) conceded the free exercise of worship to the Protestants.

[[File:82222253-SLD-001-0067.jpg|thumb|left|Burial site of Leonardo da Vinci]] 
 
Here was born in 1743 [[Louis Claude de Saint-Martin]], French philosopher, known as ''Le Philosophe Inconnu'' (d. 1803).

[[Abd el Kader Ibn Mouhi Ad-Din]] (c. 1807 – 1883) was imprisoned at the [[Château d'Amboise]].

In 2019, the 500th anniversary of da Vinci's death, Amboise held many events celebrating the master's life and his work completed in the town.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.amboise-valdeloire.co.uk/destination-amboise/leonardo-da-vinci/amboise-celebrates-da-vincis-500th-anniversary/ |access-date=2019-12-02 |title=Archived copy |archive-date=3 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200703194055/https://www.amboise-valdeloire.co.uk/destination-amboise/leonardo-da-vinci/amboise-celebrates-da-vincis-500th-anniversary// |url-status=dead }}</ref> The number of visitors to Château du Clos Lucé, for example, was estimated as 500,000 in 2019, a 30% increase over the typical annual number.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/2019/11/29/782568048/500-years-after-leonardo-da-vincis-death-france-celebrates-his-life-and-work |title=500 Years After Leonardo Da Vinci's Death, France Celebrates His Life And Work |date=29 November 2019 |publisher=NPR |access-date=2 December 2019 }}</ref>