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- BIOGRAPHY
Sulpice was born around 1030, the eldest son of Lisois de Bazougers, sire d'Amboise, and Hersende de Buzançais, dame de Verneuil. He married Denise de Pontlevoy, dame de Chaumont-sur-Loire, the niece of Geofroy de Chaumont, who brought as her dowry the lordships of Pontlevoy, Chaumont and Fougères. Their son Hugues I would have progeny.
After the death of his father, Sulpice challenged the legitimacy of the new count of Anjou, Foulques IV 'Rechin', and went to war against him. He devastated and plundered all the area from the Indre to the Cher and from the Cher to the Loire, extending his ravages from Tours as far as Montrichard and Saint-Aignan. The count of Anjou besieged Amboise in 1068. Sulpice, assisted by his brother Lisois de Verneuil and his brother-in-law Thibaut des Roches, seigneur de Roche-Corbon, repelled all the attacks with such courage that the count was obliged to raise the siege. The following year Sulpice, who had imprudently come to Tours to visit a friend, was seized by Foulques IV 'Rechin', who renewed his siege of Amboise with all his forces. The tenacity and bravery of Lisois de Verneuil forced the count to lift the siege a second time. Foulques was furious, having spent five weeks, with all his troops, in attempting unsuccessfully to capture the fortress. To obtain his release and a truce, Sulpice was obliged to give his son Hugues as a hostage. Freed, Sulpice immediately went to war against his brothers-in-law François de Thorigné and Bouchard de Montrésor, who had sided with the count. He fell ill from his injuries and went to his sister Sibille at the castle of Rochecorbon, where he died on 1 June 1081.
He had previously recognised his son Hugues as his successor and given his brother Lisois de Verneuil the task of governing the two lordships of Amboise and Chaumont until Hugues' release and when he had reached his majority. Sulpice was buried in the abbey of Pontlevoy.
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