the subsequently rebuilt castle still stands in the canton of Chemillé, Maine-et-Loire. De la Tour Landry's grandfather, Geoffroy III de la Tour Landry, had married Olive de Belleville, the daughter of a neighboring grand seigneur. She is mentioned in the Livre as enjoying the company of minstrels, and lauded for her generosity and piety. In the fifteenth century, Pontus de la Tour Landry commissioned the romance of Pontus et la belle Sidonie, glamorizing the family's origins in the train of Pontus, the son of the king of Galicia who fell in love with the fair Sidonia, daughter of the king of Brittany, where part of the ancestral possessions of the lords of La Tour lay. Cultural references In the novel The Once and Future King, by T.H. White, a reference is made that states "before King Arthur had made his chivalry, the Knight of the Tower Landry had been compelled to warn his daughter against entering her own dining hall in the evening unaccompanied – for fear of what might happen in the dark corners". In the novel Timeline, by Michael Crichton, a reference is made which states Notes References Further reading D. B. Wyndham Lewis, G. S. Taylor (Editors), Book of the Knight of La Tour Landry (Kila, Montana: Kessinger Publishing, 2003). External links (Scriptorium) Geoffrey de la Tour Landry on "jangling" in church LaTour Landry Chivalric Manuals Genealogical Data Text of The Book of the Knight of the Tower Book of the Knight of La Tour-Landry, London 1906 Ponthus et Sidoine 1320 births 1391 deaths People from Maine-et-Loire 14th-century French writers Etiquette writers French didactic writers Medieval French nobility Knights banneret of France French male writers