Dominican convent Aix-en-Provence
Notre-Dame de Nazareth was a convent of Dominican nuns in Aix-en-Provence , which from the late 13th century to the revolution was. The main church of the monastery was named Saint-Barthélémy . The residents were known as the Dames de Nazareth .
The monastery was founded in 1286 in Marseille ; the first sisters came from the Lauragais . Already in 1287 the move to Aix was decided, the move took place in 1290. However, the official establishment took place two years later: Charles II the Lame of Anjou , King of Naples and Count of Provence , founded the monastery in 1292, which then became Couvent Royal was allowed to designate. The king, who had previously donated the neighboring monastery of Saint-Maximin , furnished the sisters of Nazareth with extensive possessions, including the town of Meyreuil with the Saint-Marc chapel in 1308 . Charles the Lame died in Italy in 1309 and was first buried in San Domenico in Naples . His son later had the body - with the exception of the heart - transferred to the monastery in Aix-en-Provence, where it found its final resting place in the monastery church of Saint-Barthélémy.
In 1377 the monastery was moved from the city center to the new suburb ( faubourg ) Naurabet. In 1501 a new main church was consecrated to Saint-Barthélémy. However, the decline began at the end of the 17th and 18th centuries; at last the monastery did not contain more than ten nuns. The monastery was finally dissolved by the revolutionaries, its property nationalized and its churches - including the royal tomb - destroyed.
Web links
- Catherine Richarté ( INRAP ), Catherine Barra (INRAP), Andreas Hartmann-Virnich ( University of Provence Aix-Marseille I ): Le couvent des Dominicaines de Notre-Dame de Nazareth, un site monastique à Aix-en-Provence. Analysis of the données archéologiques et premiers éléments de topographie péri-urbaine médiévale. , 4th Congrès International d'Archéologie Médiévale et Moderne, Paris 2007
- Catherine Richarté-Manfredi, Catherine Barra: La fondation royale des Dominicaines d'Aix-en-Provence: Un couvent entre rupture et perméabilité , In: Les nouvelles de l'archéologie , No. 143, 2016, pp. 12-16.
- Brief overview on the website of a subsequent user of one of the former monastery buildings (including pictures)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Richarté, Barra, Hartmann, pp. 2/3
- ↑ Raoul Busquet (ed.): Les fonds des Archives départementales des Bouches-du-Rhône , Série B, 1939, p. 166 ( Justice seigneuriale de Meyreuil )
- ^ See for example Julian Gardner: A Princess among Prelates: a Fourteenth-Century Neapolitan Tomb and some Northern Relations , In: Römisches Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte , Volumes 23/24, Verlag Wasmuth, 1988, p. 55
- ↑ Richarté, Barra, Hartmann, p. 9