Couvent des Célestins (Paris)

Inner courtyard of the monastery 1845

The Couvent de Célestins (Convent of the Cölestins) in Paris was a monastery in what is now the 4th arrondissement .

history

The Cölestiner sat on land that Garnier Marcel had given them in 1352 , on what was then rue de Pute-y-Musse, today's rue du Petit Musc, directly to the east of the Hôtel Saint-Paul .

This situation earned them the task of providing chaplains to the brotherhood of notaries, and later even to the king's secretaries. The favor of John the Good and especially Charles V gave them the means to build a large church from 1367 , called l'Annonciation or les Célestins , one of the most popular shrines in Paris. The princes of the House of Orléans made it their necropolis , the second largest of the Capetians after the Abbey of Saint-Denis .

Today there are no more remains of the Cölestiner convent - the Boulevard Henri IV runs where the monastery once stood .

Funerals

The following were buried in the abbey church of the Couvent des Célestins:

• the bowels of Queen Jeanne de Bourbon († 1378)
• Leon V († 1393), the last king of Little Armenia
• Johann († 1393), son of Ludwig von Orléans and Valentina Visconti, in childhood
• Ludwig († 1395), son of Ludwig von Orléans and Valentina Visconti, in childhood
• Louis of Orléans († 1407)
• Valentina Visconti († 1408), transferred from the church of the Couvent des Cordeliers in Blois
• Philipp, Count of Vertus († 1420), son of Ludwig von Orléans and Valentina Visconti
• Anna of Burgundy († 1432), first wife of John of Lancaster ( John of Lancaster ), 1st Duke of Bedford , later transferred to the burial place of the Dukes of Burgundy, the Chartreuse de Champmol .
• Karl , Duke of Orléans († 1465), son of Ludwig von Orléans and Valentina Visconti, transferred from the church of St-Sauveur de Blois in 1504.

See also

• Bal des Ardents

literature

• Julian Blunk: Tracting with the dead: the French royal graves in the early modern period , Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2011 online

Web links

Commons : Couvent des Célestins (Paris)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

1. ↑ Today's Église Reformée de l'Annonciation is located in the 16th arrondissement and has nothing to do with the Cölestinians
2. ↑ Anna of Burgundy in the site fmg.ac
3. ↑ See Blunk, p 106