Notre-Dame de Jouarre Abbey

Church of the 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

Commons : Notre-Dame de Jouarre Abbey  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Abbey site
• Virtual tour of the crypt

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Base Mérimée # PA00087037

Coordinates: 48 ° 55 '36 "  N , 3 ° 7' 55"  E