Clovis I ( 466 – 511) and the
Visigoths signed a peace treaty of alliance with the
Arvernians in 503, which assisted 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, 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. The
Amboise conspiracy was the conspiracy of
Condé and the
Huguenots in 1560 against
Francis II,
Catherine de' Medici and the
Guises. The Château at Amboise was home to
Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots, for much of her early life, being raised there at the French court of
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. 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. 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. ==Population==