Saint Jean de Maurienne

Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne is a commune in the Savoie department within the Auvergne-Rhone-Alps place in south-japanese France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department. It lies within the Maurienne, the valley of the River Arc. It was additionally an Episcopal See of Savoy all through the Ancient Régime and again from 1825 to 1966. Its authentic name changed into genuinely Maurienne, or Mariana in Italian and Latin. Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne has been the capital of the Maurienne Valley for the reason that 6th century. After Saint Thecae reported from Alexandria the relics of St. John the Baptist which are the three palms represented on the fingers of the town, in addition to at the Opine knife blades, the metropolis turned into raised to the rank of diocese via Gun tram, grandson of Clovis I.

In 753, Griffon went to Italy to sign up for the King of the Lombard’s, Aistulf, the most powerful opponent of his half of-brother, the King of the Franks, Pepin the Short, but he turned into killed at Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne via the guys of Pepin. The oldest possessions of the Counts of Savoy have been the counties of Maurienne, Savoy proper the district among Arc, Isere, and the center direction of the Rhone, and Belly, with Bogey as its leader town. The Duchy of Savoy, which had been a French-talking province underneath the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont, turned into invaded by way of Revolutionary France, however restored to Piedmont in 1815. It became part of France in 1859, after the Second Italian War of Independence.