title: Saintonge
text: # Saintonge
  
  Saintonge may refer to:
  
  * County of Saintonge, a historical province of France on the Atlantic coast
  * Saintonge (region), a region of France corresponding to the historical province
  * Saintonge ware, a medieval pottery type produced in Saintes region of France from the 13th century
  
  ## Places
  
  * Saint-Genis-de-Saintonge, a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France
  * Rue de Saintonge [fr], a street in Marais, Paris' 3rd arrondissement
  
  ## People
  
  * Jean-Pierre Saintonge (born 1945), Quebec, Canada educator, lawyer, judge and political figure
  * Anne de Xainctonge or de Saintonge (1567–1621), founder of the Society of the Sisters of Saint Ursula of the Blessed Virgin, the first non-cloistered women's religious community
  
  ## Others
  
  * Saintongese, people from Saintonge, an area in western France
  * Saintonge Regiment, infantry regiments of France
  * Saintonge War, a feudal dynastic encounter that occurred in 1242 and 1243 between forces of Louis IX of France, Alphonse of Poiters and those of Henry III of England, Hugh X of Lusignan, and Raymond VII of Toulouse
  