Pont-aux-Dames abbey

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The Pont-aux-Dames Abbey in Couilly-Pont-aux-Dames ( Seine-et-Marne Department ) was founded in 1226. Madame du Barry , mistress of the late King Louis XV, moved here in 1774 . , banished.

history

Hugo I of Châtillon , Count of Saint-Pol , Seigneur de Crécy , and his wife Marie d'Avesnes , who later became Countess of Blois , founded a Cistercian abbey in Couilly in the castellany Crécy in 1226, originally the Abbaye du Pont or Abbaye du Pont Notre-Dame and finally Abbaye du Pont-aux-Dames (Pons Dominarum).

The abbey was initially housed in a poor house in the Hameau du Pont on the banks of the Grand Morin . In 1239 the monastery was moved by its founders to the Hameau de Rus , which was then renamed Pont-aux-Dames . The previous location was named Pré de l'Hôtel-Dieu . Walter V of Châtillon , Seigneur de Crécy, ceded the castellany Crécy - and with it the abbey - to the king in January 1289. The eldest son of King Charles IV , Philippe (1313/14-before 1322) was buried in the abbey.

Shortly after the death of King Louis XV. on May 10, 1774, Madame du Barry, his mistress, was exiled by Louis Phélypeaux, Marquis de Saint-Florentin, to the Pont-aux-Dames Abbey, where she spent more than a year before moving to her in October 1775 House in Saint-Vrain (Essonne) was allowed to move.

The French Revolution made Pont-aux-Dames national property, the army took over the former monastery and looted it. On August 24, 1796, it was sold to Pierre Roëser from Crécy-en-Brie . Today there is a retirement home for actors built by Benoît Constant Coquelin and opened in 1905 at the same location .

A Virgin and Child from the abbey is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, a copy of the statue in the Sainte-Georges Church in Couilly.

Burials

The following were buried in the Pont-aux-Dames Abbey:

  • Hugo I of Châtillon († 1248), buried in the abbey
  • Walter V of Châtillon († 1329), buried in the abbey
  • Philippe de la Marche († before 1322), son of Charles IV , buried in the abbey
  • Blanche de France († 1394), Duchess of Orléans, daughter of Charles IV, buried in the abbey

literature

  • Bernadette Barrière, Marie-Élisabeth Montulet-Henneau: Cîteaux et les femmes (2001)
  • Jacques Paul Migne : Troisième et dernière encyclopédie théologique , Volume 16 (1856)
  • Maurice Poinsignon: Histoire générale de la Champagne et de la Brie depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à la division de la province en départements , Volume 3 (1886)
  • Bernard Peugniez: Routier cistercien , Editions Gaud, Moisenay, pp. 172–173, ISBN 2-84080-044-6

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barrière / Montulet-Henneau pp. 171 and 174
  2. ^ Migne, p. 635
  3. ↑ Poinsignon, p. 598
  4. ↑ See website
  5. ↑ after Schwennicke buried in the Abbey of Saint-Denis , see list of the Capetians

Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 36 "  N , 2 ° 51 ′ 59"  E