Couvent des Cordelières (Provins)

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Couvent des Cordeliéres in Provins

The Couvent des Cordelières du Mont-Sainte-Cathérine-lès-Provins , now part of the Provins municipality ( Seine-et-Marne department , France ), is a former Poor Clare monastery that existed from 1248 until the Revolution .

history

Theobald IV , Count of Champagne since 1201 and King of Navarre as Theobald I since 1234 , founded the convent in 1248 on a hill northeast of the medieval city ​​of Provins outside the city walls opposite the Count's palace.

In 1253 the founder's heart was buried in the monastery church, his body rests in Pamplona . His son Theobald II of Navarre († 1270) and his wife Isabella of France († 1271), daughter of Louis the Saint , had their bodies buried here. Isabella's heart was buried in Clairvaux Monastery, her husband's heart rests in the Jacobin Convent in Provins. Since the monastery church fell into disrepair during the Hundred Years War , no remains of the graves are preserved today.

In 1749 the convent was founded by order of Louis XV. rededicated to a hospital. As a convention, the institution was dissolved during the revolution. However, after the revolution, Theobald II's heart was transferred to the new monastery church from the 15th and 16th centuries. The facility was used as a hospice until 1977. The Bibliothèque nationale de France acquired the building in order to set up a studio for the restoration of press products. Today the archives of the Direction du patrimoine et des monuments nationaux and a tourism school are located here .

The chapter house and the western ambulatory still exist from the convent buildings . The cloister of the convent was classified as a monument historique in 1846 and the entire building in 1960.

Web links

Commons : Couvent des Cordelières de Provins  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 34 ′ 6.8 ″  N , 3 ° 17 ′ 48.7 ″  E