Saint-Corneille Abbey
The Saint-Corneille Abbey in Compiègne existed from 876 to 1790. It is located about 75 kilometers north of Paris in the county of Valois and was initially called Sainte-Marie or Notre-Dame . Only later was it renamed Saint-Corneille , but is also known under the name Saint-Cyprien .
This imperial and royal abbey was founded as a successor or at least as a counterpart to the Aachen royal palace . It was consecrated by a Pope and has hosted a number of councils. Several Carolingians were crowned or buried here. The Abbey of Notre-Dame in Compiègne was to the Carolingians what the Abbey of Saint-Denis was to the Capetians . After the latter took over power - Hugo Capet was recognized as king within the walls of the abbey - the importance of the monastery declined so much that it was ultimately only regional in nature. Yet it remained in the eyes of the nobility and the people because of its past and its relicsa famous royal abbey. The history of the city of Compiègne and the Valois is closely linked to that of this abbey. Even after the monks were replaced by Benedictines in 1150 , conflict-ridden relations with the local lords and bishops of Soissons continued . The king and the pope were continually forced to protect the abbey or to dampen its ambitions.
Even towards the end of the Middle Ages, Saint-Corneille was still seen as the abbey that outshone the other abbeys in northern France. Even in the Renaissance it housed numerous relics and captured flags and was host to princes and queens and had eight barons as feudal bearers. The abbots exercised constant power in the valley of the Oise and in Compiègne, but the transfer of the monastery management to commendatar abbots and the union with the Parisian Abbey of Val-de-Grâce brought about the decline. The French Revolution finally dissolved the monastery. The buildings were looted and abandoned in 1793. The last remains of the Abbey of Saint-Corneille in Compiègne went down in 1940 when the city was bombed by the German air force .
literature
- Société Historique de Compiègne (ed.): Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Corneille de Compiègne . Tome I. Imprimerie J. Bellin, Montdidier 1904 (French, digitized [accessed July 24, 2017]).
- Eric Blanchegorge, Juliette Lenoir: L'abbaye Saint-Corneille . In: Société Historique de Compiègne (ed.): Bulletin n ° 39 - Histoire de l'abbaye Saint Corneille de Compiègne . 2008 (French, 493 pages, online [accessed July 24, 2017]).
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Coordinates: 49 ° 25 ′ 2.6 ″ N , 2 ° 49 ′ 28.6 ″ E