Couvent des Cordeliers de Champaigue
The Couvent des Cordeliers de Champaigue was located about a kilometer outside of Souvigny ( Allier department ) and, along with the Benedictine monastery in Souvigny, was the preferred necropolis of the Lords of Bourbon outside Paris.
history
The convent was founded by Franciscans in 1245 on land that Archambault IX. provided by Bourbon . The convent always remained a modest institution, in which never more than nine monks lived. The lords of Bourbon used the place to retire to pray, some of them were also buried here.
Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (1279-1341) reorganized the necropolis of Champaigue from 1320 to emphasize his presence in the Bourbonnais after the change of the ruling family. He ordered graves for his grandmother Agnès de Dampierre, dame de Bourbon , his mother Béatrix and two of his children and had them buried there in the choir in order to establish continuity between the House of Dampierre and the Bourbons.
The buildings were destroyed during the directorate and replaced by a farm. The tomb of Duke Ludwig's wife was rediscovered in a field by a farmer at the beginning of the 20th century and is now in the Musée du Pays de Souvigny in Souvigny.
Burials
The following were buried in Champaigue:
- Agnès de Dampierre († 1288), daughter of Archambault IX., Wife of Jean de Bourgogne (1231–1268)
- Béatrix de Bourbon (1257 / 58–1310), daughter of Agnès de Bourbon and Jean de Bourgogne
- Marie d'Avesnes († 1354), wife of Duke Ludwig I.
- Guy II. De Dampierre († 1216), who was first buried in the Abbey Church of Saint-Laumer in Blois , then possibly in Champaigue
literature
- Léon Côte, Moines, Sires et Ducs à Souvigny - Le Saint-Denis bourbonnais (1966)
- Marc-Édouard Gautier, Les ducs de Bourbon face à la mort: les élections de sépulture (fin XIIIe-début XVIe siècle), École des Chartes , Thèses 2002 ( online )
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Coordinates: 46 ° 33 ′ 15 ″ N , 3 ° 11 ′ 40 ″ E