Detached from the seigneury of Gassin, the municipality of Saint-Tropez was established in 1793 under the name Héraclée before being renamed Saint-Tropez in 1801. The legend associates this name with the martyr Torpetius or Torpes. The body of this intendant of Nero, martyred and beheaded in Pisa in AD 68 for refusing to abjure his Christian faith, would have been sent to sea in a boat. Carried by the Ligurian current, it would have run aground on the shores of the Gulf of Saint-Tropez. The monks of the abbey of Saint-Victor in Marseille, who owned the peninsula and all the adjacent lands in the 11th century, erected the Ecclesia Sancti Torpetis chapel on the site in memory of Torpetius and baptized the city San-Torpes.