Faremoutiers Abbey

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The Notre Dame Abbey de Faremoutiers is located in the center of the community Faremoutiers in the Seine-et-Marne . It was founded by Burgundofara (or Fara for short ) around 620 . The double monastery had the rank of a royal abbey. Although Faremoutiers was destroyed twice, remains of the medieval walls can still be seen next to the current buildings.

history

Fara belonged to the Burgundofarones family , who were especially wealthy in the Meaux area . At the end of 610, as a young girl, she met the missionary Columban of Luxeuil , when he stopped at Poincy , her parents' villa outside Meaux, on his way back from Paris to Luxeuil , and who also consecrated her on the same occasion; About a decade later, Burgundofara founded the Iro-Franconian monastery Faremoutiers (Farae monasterium) on the family estate Eboriacum , whose first abbess she also became and which she subjected to the strict Columban rule. The male monastery was built by monks from Luxeuil, including Waldebert , who later became the 3rd abbot of Luxeuil, who probably worked out the Columban rule for female monasteries for the Faremoutiers monastery. With her will of October 627, Fara bequeathed all of her property to the monastery. She died after 641.

After Bathilde, an Anglo-Saxon, became Queen of the Franks, Faremoutier became a royal monastery. At the same time, the abbey saw such a large influx of nuns from the British Isles that Fara's successors came from the ruling families of East Anglia or Kent for the remainder of the 7th century . In the 9th century the picture changed to the effect that the abbesses of Faremoutiers now came from the Carolingian family. During this time, on the orders of Emperor Louis the Pious , the Benedictine Rule became mandatory for all monasteries, including Faremoutiers .

Faremoutiers was later subordinate to the Counts of Sens (end of the 10th century until 1055) and finally to the kings of France (from 1166). In 1140 the entire monastery burned down and the reconstruction took five years. In 1445, during the Hundred Years War , Faremoutiers was sacked.

In the last years of the 15th century, monastic morality deteriorated noticeably - in 1495 three of the nuns had children living with them. In 1518 the monastery was renewed by nuns from the Abbey of Chelles and the Monastery of Montmartre , and the abbess was no longer elected by the nuns (and confirmed by the bishop), but appointed by the king, who from now on also took care of the building structure of the abbey took care of: Louis XIV commissioned his architect François Mansart to build the new residential buildings of the monastery.

Faremoutiers Abbey was also closed during the Revolution . It served as a barracks until 1795, then as a quarry until the beginning of the 19th century. It was not until 1930 that the monastery was taken over by nuns from nearby Amillis .

Abbesses

  • around 620-after 641: Fara ( Burgundofarones )
  • Sedride = Sæthryth, daughter of Hereswitha and stepdaughter of Anna , King of East Anglia ( Wuffinger )
  • Æthelburh (Ethelburge), daughter of King Anna ( Wuffinger )
  • Eorcongota, daughter of Earconberht I , King of Kent ( Oiscingas ), and Seaxburge , sister of Æthelburh
  • ...
  • 840-852 Rothilde, daughter of Charlemagne ( Carolingian )
  • 852-probably 877 Bertha, daughter of Lothar I ( Carolingian )
  • Ada, 876 nun, later abbess, ( Arnulfinger )
  • Judith
  • Aveline
  • Hildegard
  • ...
  • 1137-1146. Risende
  • 1146-1154. Emma
  • 1154-1212. Lucienne de La Chapelle
  • 1212-1215. Marguerite
  • 1215-1219. Hersende de Touquin
  • 1219-1240. Eustachia
  • 1240-1252. Julienne de Grez de Nesle-en-Brie
  • 1252-1272. Sibylle
  • 1272-1289. Avoie
  • 1289-1290. Marguerite de Mons (I.)
  • 1290-1312. Marguerite de Chevry
  • 1312-1341. Marguerite de Mons (II.)
  • 1341-1346. Mathilde de Joinville de La Malmaison
  • 1346-1363. Jeanne de Noyers
  • 1363-1383. Marguerite de Lully d'Ancre
  • 1383-1409. Marguerite de Noyers
  • 1409-1417. Jeanne de Châteauvillain
  • 1417-1434. Denise du Sollier
  • 1434-1439. Jeanne Rapillard
  • 1439-1454. Isabelle de Mory
  • 1454-1490. Jeanne de Bautot
  • 1490-1511. Jeanne Chrestienne d'Harcourt-Beuvron
  • 1511-1515. Madeleine de Valois-Orléans, Bâtarde d'Angoulême († 1543), 1515 Abbess of Jouarre , daughter of Charles de Valois, comte d'Angoulême
  • 1515-1518. Marie Cornu
  • 1518-1531. Jeanne Joly
  • 1531-1555. Marie Baudry
  • 1555-1563. Antoinette de Lorraine-Guise († 1561), daughter of Claude de Lorraine, duc de Guise
  • 1563-1567. Françoise Guillard
  • 1567-1573. Marie Violle
  • 1573-1586. Louise de Bourbon-Montpensier
  • 1586-1593. Isabelle de Chauvigny
  • 1593-1605. Anne de La Châtre de Maisonfort, daughter of Claude de La Châtre ( La Châtre House )
  • 1605-1643. Françoise de La Châtre de Maisonfort, whose sister ( La Châtre House )
  • 1643-1677. Jeanne Anne de Plas
  • 1677-1685. Marie Thérèse-Constance du Blé d'Uxelles
  • 1685-1721. Marie Anne-Généreuse-Constance de Beringhen d'Armainvilliers
  • 1721-1726. Louise Charlotte-Eugènie-Victoire de Beringhen d'Armainvilliers
  • 1726-1743. Olympe-Félicité-Sophie-Fare de Beringhen d'Armainvilliers
  • 1743-1745. Françoise Catherine Molé de Champlâtreux
  • 1745-1759. Marie Renée de Maupéou d'Ableiges
  • 1759-1775. Charlotte-Julie Lenormant of the Fort d'Etiolles
  • 1775-1791. Claude de Durfort de Léobard

Source: Gallia Christiana

swell

  • Cartulaire de l'abbaye de Farmoutiers, au diocèse de Meaux (Ms 358, Service des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris)

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