Flines Abbey

The Cistercian Abbey of Flines was located in the municipality of Flines-lez-Raches near Douai . It was founded by Countess Margaret II of Flanders around 1234 and was the burial place for a number of Flemish counts from the Dampierre family .

Flines Abbey on the Cartular of the Duke of Croy (probably from 1603), view from the south

The abbey included farms in Faumont , Nomain , Coutiches , Cantin , Lambersart and Howardries (Belgium). During the revolution the abbey was destroyed, the last remains disappeared in the middle of the 19th century.

Buried in Flines were u. a .:

• Wilhelm II of Dampierre (transferred in 1257)
• Margaret II of Flanders (1278)
• Guido I of Flanders (1304), son of Wilhelm and Margarete
• Mathilde von Béthune (1263) and
• Isabella of Luxembourg (1298)

literature

• Bernadette Barrière and Marie-Elisabeth Montulet-Henneau (eds.), Cîteaux et les femmes. Architectures et occupation de l'espace dans les monastères féminins. Modalités d'intégration et de contrôle des femmes dans l'Ordre. Les moniales cisterciennes aujourd'hui . Créaphis éditions, Grâne 2001 (files from a colloquium from 1998, here: p. 100).
• Cistercian Sites in Europe . Charte Européenne des Abbayes et Sites Cisterciens 2012, p. 62.
• Bernard Peugniez: Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 235.

Web links

• The destruction of the Flines Abbey (French)
• Vauban and the Flines Abbey (French)
• The Mer de Flines and the Abbey (French)
• Mention of Flines in the Encyclopaedia Cisterciensis, without information
• Page of the monastery in the European Chart of Cistercian Abbeys and Places, English

Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 24.2 "  N , 3 ° 10 ′ 20.7"  E