| Sumario: | This article explores the overlapping authority of the Angevins and Capetians in Tours during the reign of Geoffrey V (1129-51). Although the region has long been recognized as a focus of competition, historians have hitherto engaged with Capetian control of the bourg of Châteauneuf and the college of Saint-Martin. Here Angevin administration in Tours and engagement with the archbishops of Tours, local monastic houses and burgesses are traced in Geoffrey V's acta, some published for the first time, and other charters and narrative material. While existing studies rightly stress the vibrancy of Châteauneuf at the expense of the cité of Tours, Capetian influence was not clear-cut; local groups and institutions could use their marginal situation to accrue multiple layers of patronage and protection. Papal schism and reform, the local economy, and the nature of comital relations with other Greater Angevin institutions were all important dynamics shaping Angevin rule alongside Angevin-Capetian competition.
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