Longchamp Abbey

The Abbey Longchamp was in 1256 of Isabella of France , sister of King Louis IX. the saint , founded west of Paris (now within the city limits).

Isabella received a strict moral and religious upbringing from her mother, and so she showed great piety even as a child. In 1243 she refused to marry Konrad von Hohenstaufen , the son of Emperor Friedrich II. After the death of her mother (1252), she took a vow of chastity , which was confirmed by Pope Innocent IV on May 26, 1254. She decided to use her dowry to found a monastery and chose a site on the edge of the forest of Rouvray, the former royal hunting area. King Louis IX bought an elongated field (French: long champ) between the forest and the Seine for his sister and laid the foundation stone of the Poor Clare Abbey on June 10, 1256 . The cost of construction, completed in 1259, amounted to around 30,000 livres .

On January 3, 1322, King Philip V died here .

Mill (1312) of the former Longchamp monastery, now a pumping station. Next to it the Longchamp Racecourse , 2012.

The abbey was destroyed during the French Revolution . Today the Longchamp racecourse is located on the site .

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Mill (1312) of the former Longchamp monastery, now a pumping station

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^ Jean Favier writes in his Dictionnaire de la France médiévale on page 582: “Longchamp (auj. Paris). Abbaye de clarisses fondée en 1232 par Isabelle de France, sœur de Saint Louis. “This founding date will be wrong because Isabelle was only eight years old at the time.

[1] Jean Favier writes in his Dictionnaire de la France médiévale on page 582: “Longchamp (auj. Paris). Abbaye de clarisses fondée en 1232 par Isabelle de France, sœur de Saint Louis. “This founding date will be wrong because Isabelle was only eight years old at the time.