Notre-Dame de Jouarre Abbey
The Notre-Dame de Jouarre Abbey is a Benedictine abbey in the commune of Jouarre in the Seine-et-Marne department in France . The Romanesque crypt is particularly important . It has been a protected architectural monument since 1840 .
history
The abbey was founded in the 7th century under the influence of Saint Columban of Luxeuil as a double monastery for men and women and is still inhabited by a Benedictine community today. In the 9th and 10th centuries the abbey was an important place of pilgrimage, in the 11th and 12th a fortified settlement developed around the abbey, today's city of Jouarre.
In 1571, Abbess Charlotte de Bourbon-Montpensier , who had converted to Protestantism , fled to Germany and later married William of Orange .
The monastery, closed by the French Revolution , housed a community of sisters again from 1821 and was taken over as a daughter monastery by the Pradines Benedictine Abbey founded by Thérèse de Bavoz in 1837 . The Benedictine convent now has 40 nuns.
Abbesses
- 7th century
- Telchilde (Theodechilde)
- Agilberta
- Balde
- 9th century
- Ermentrude
- 15th century
- Jeanne d'Ailly
- 16th Century
- Madeleine d'Orléans Bâtarde d'Angoulême († 1543), illegitimate daughter of Charles d'Orléans , comte d'Angoulême
- Charlotte de Bourbon (* 1546, † 1582), daughter of Louis III. de Bourbon, duc de Montpensier
- Louise de Bourbon
- Claude Louise de Longwy ( Chaussin House )
- Jeanne de Bourbon (* 1541, † 1620), daughter of Louis III. de Bourbon, duc de Montpensier
- Jeanne de Lorraine (* 1586 † 1638), daughter of Henri I. de Lorraine, duc de Guise
- 17th century
- Henriette de Lorraine (* 1631, † 1693), daughter of Claude de Lorraine, duc de Chevreuse
- Anne-Marguerite de Rohan (1692-1721)
- 18th century
- Charlotte-Armande de Rohan (1721–1729)
- Anne-Thérèse de Rohan (1730–1738), (* 1684, † 1738), daughter of Charles III. de Rohan
- Catherine-Henriette de Montmorin (1738–1792)
- 19th century
- Sainte Symphorose Bagot (1837-1840)
- Athanase Gilquin (1840-1881)
- Benoît Bernier (1881–1908)
- 20th century
- Angèle Bontemps
- Pierre Vidard (1956–1964)
- Aguilberte de Suremain (1965–1995)
- Marie-David Giraud (1995-2005)
- Geneviève Barrière (since 2009)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Base Mérimée # PA00087037
Coordinates: 48 ° 55 '36 " N , 3 ° 7' 55" E