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Lord Symphorianus Campegius Also known as Symphorien Champier (1471–1539), a prominent French physician and humanist who often wrote about local history and genealogy.

Pliny.

This is also asserted by Pliny in Book 3, Chapter 15. Therefore, older than these were their ancestors,
The Janigenae Gauls.

the Janigenae Gauls original: "Galli ianigenæ"; a term used by Renaissance humanists to claim that the Gauls were descended from the god Janus, who built the city of Tours and the city of Tournon during the Golden Age.
Titus.

Titus was the son of Tyrrhenus, and Volturrhenus was the son of Titus.
Berosus the Chaldean. Janus. Iapetus. Atlas. Cameses. Ion. Italus. Osiris. Egyptian Hercules. Atys.

Berosus the Chaldean Champier is referencing the "Antiquities" of Berosus, a famous 15th-century forgery by Annius of Viterbo that provided mythical origins for European nations records that Janus had three sons: Iapetus, Atlas the Great, and Cameses. To Atlas the Great was born Ion, the father of Italus; and to Cameses was born Osiris, the father of the Egyptian Hercules. This Hercules was the father of Atys, who was the father of Tyrrhenus, by whom the city of Tours and the Citadel of Tournon were constructed.
The Rutuli.

However, other authors not to be disregarded affirm that the House of Tournon drew its origin from the Rutuli.
Livy. Turnus. Lavinia. Aeneas.

For according to the testimony of Livy, in the early days after the city Rome was founded, Turnus, King of the Rutuli—to whom Lavinia had been betrothed before the arrival of Aeneas—took it poorly that a stranger was preferred over him. He brought war against both Aeneas and Latinus. The Rutuli were defeated and,
The Etruscans.

losing confidence in their affairs, they fled to the flourishing wealth of the Etruscans.
Tournon.

Therefore, after Turnus was overcome, and while the Rutuli were searching for more delightful places in Gaul, they came to the spot where the most flourishing city of Tournon now stands. Having seen the pleasantness and convenience of the location, they built that city, and these authors maintain that Tournon was named after Turnus.