Notre-Dame du Tronchet abbey
The Notre-Dame du Tronchet Abbey was a Benedictine abbey in Le Tronchet (Ille-et-Vilaine) .
Already at the end of the 11th century the hermitage of a Gaultier was located in the forest of Le Tronchet, around which a monastic community gathered. A church was built in 1140, a convent in 1150, which was elevated to an abbey in 1170 under the abbey of Sainte-Trinité de Tiron in Thiron-Gardais . This dependency was lifted in 1258, but this was subsequently ignored.
In 1259 a prayer covenant was made with the Abbey of Notre-Dame-en-Sainte-Melaine ( Rennes ), and in 1274 one with the Abbey of Saint-Jacut ( Saint-Jacut-de-la-Mer ). 1278 received the abbey from the English King Edward III. permission to hold a market.
A successor dispute over the office of abbot from 1496 was by Pope Alexander VI. used to let the abbey run by commendatars from 1499 , which led to the decline of the community, as the monastery now only served to care for the non-resident abbot. During the revolution , the abbey was dissolved, looted and sold as a national good.
List of Abbots
Regular abbots
- 1130: Gaultier, magister fratum de Trucheto
- 1135–1169: Raoul, first abbot of Le Tronchet
- 1171–…: Barthélémy
- 1177–1190: Guillaume I.
- 1207–1227: Gaultier II.
- 1228-1246: Jean I.
- … –1258: Nicolas
- 1259-1272: Martin
- 1273-1281: Pierre I. Mahé
- 1282-1297: Thomas
- 1301-1309: Josse
- 1310-1341: Mathieu
- 1343-1354: Guillaume II. Pépin
- 1354-1367: Guillaume III. Hutier
- 1369-1374: Guillaume IV. Galiot
- 1374–…: Jean II. Belin
- 1378-1383: Robert Pépin
- 1399–1402: Raoul II Tournevache (elected by the monks)
- 1399–1400: Guillaume le Roux (installed by the Abbot of Tiron)
- … –1420: Jean III.
- 1420-1422: Thibaud de Baulon
- 1422-1436: Alain Costard
- 1436–1474: Gilles Raguenel
- 1474-1478: Alain II.
- 1478–1484: François I de Beauchesne
- 1485–1496: Guillaume V. de Chastelier
- 1496–1499: Hugues le Malezier (appointed by the abbot of Tiron against the resistance of the monks, is deposed again)
Commendati abbots
- 1499–1508: Raphael Galeotto or Raphael Riario, cardinal
- 1508–1533: Tristan de Vendel, Apostolic Protonotary
- 1534–1556: François II. De Laval, 1524 Bishop of Dol ( House of Montfort-Laval )
- 1556–1558: Charles I de Bourbon , 1550 Archbishop of Rouen
- 1558–1567: Louis I. d'Espinay, Apostolic Protonotary
- 1567 and 1584: René Masse
- 1586–1591: Charles II. D'Espinay, 1558 Bishop of Dol
- 1592–1597: Pierre II. Le Bouteiller
- 1597-1603: François III. Le Prévost
- 1603-1608: Jean IV. Le Prévost
- 1607: Gilles le Bret
- 1608-1640: François IV. De Montmorency-Châteaubrun ( list of the Montmorency family )
- 1640-1648: Charles III. de Rosmadec, Archbishop of Tours in 1671
- 1648–1670: Anthyme-Denis Cohon, 1633–1644 Bishop of Nîmes , 1645–1648 Bishop of Dol
- 1671-1680: Louis II. Berryer
- 1680–1701: Jules de Goth de Roillac d'Epernon
- 1701-1712: Claude I. de Gournay
- 1712–1753: Claude II. Fyot de Vauginois
- 1753-1776: Jean Hyacinthe Colin de la Biochaye
- 1776–1786: Jean-Jacques-Archibald Provost de la Bouëxière de Boisbily
- 1789–1790: Alexandre Bernardin Jourdain de Saint-Sauveur
literature
- Dom Lobineau, Histoire de Bretagne et vies des Saints de Bretagne , Paris, 1707.
- Dom Germain, L'Histoire du Tronchet , manuscript, ( Bibliothèque nationale de France , Blancs-Manteaux)
- Dom Hyacinthe Morice, Mémoires pour servir de preuves à l'histoire ecclésiastique et civile de Bretagne , Paris, 1742 (volume 1) and 1744 (volume 2)
- Dom Taillandier, Histoire de Bretagne .
- Michel Pelé, Les établissements religieux dolois, les Bénédictins du Tronchet , Combourg, Été 1975, Rennes December 2005, Reivisionré September 2009.
- Jean Allenou, Histoire féodale des marais, territoire et église de Dol . Inquête par Tourbe, ordonnée par Henri II, roi d'Angleterre., Paris 1917, 102 p., 4 maps and drawings
- Abbé E. Brebel, Essai historique sur Pleudihen , Rennes 1916, pp. 292-305.
- Jean Lecrubier, Petite histoire du Tronchet
- Eric Malo, Le Tronchet et son abbaye, son rayonnement et ses habitants , 1987, 385 pp.
- Toussaint Gautier, Monographie de l'Abbaye du Tronchet , Annuaire Dinanais, 1854.
- Marc Deceneux, Le Tronchet. L'Abbaye et l'abbatiale . 1987, 32 pp.
- François Duine, La métropole de Bretagne, Chronique de Dol , Paris, 1916, 220 pp.
- Amédée Guillotin de Corson, Pouillé historique de l'archevêché de Rennes , Rennes / Paris 1880–1886, 6 volumes, Volume 1, pp. 219–252.
- François-Marie Tresvaux, L'Église de Bretagne depuis les commencements jusqu'à nos jours ou ... , Paris 1839.
Archives
- Archives départementale d'Ille-et-Vilaine, 5 H 31, Bénédictins du Tronchet
- Bibliothèque nationale de France, Fonds de Blancs-Manteaux, F 22-235
Web links
- Notre-Dame du Tronchet Abbey in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Photos and plan of the abbey
- Photos of the abbey
Coordinates: 48 ° 29 ′ 28.2 " N , 1 ° 50 ′ 5" W.