Hautes-Bruyères
Hautes-Bruyères (full name: Notre-Dame-des-Hautes-Bruyères ) in Saint-Rémy-l'Honoré ( Yvelines department ) was a double monastery of the Order of Fontevrault Abbey , which was founded in 1112 by King Louis VI. of France and Amaury III. was founded by Montfort to take care of Bertrada von Montfort , wife who had been expelled in 1104 and widow of King Philip I since 1110 , sister of Amaury and stepmother of Ludwig.
The Hautes-Bruyères monastery then became the burial place of the Montfort family . Simon IV. De Montfort , the leader of the Albigensian Crusades, was buried here among others .
In 1530 the monastery was reformed by Agnès de Marfin and later fell into the hands of Père Joseph , Richelieu's gray eminence. During the revolution , the monastery was dissolved and sold.
Only a barn and a tympanum remained from the monastery . Even the abbey archives were almost completely lost. In the Abbey of Saint-Denis , however, there is the urn for the heart of King Francis I , which was designed by Pierre Bontemps on behalf of King Henry II and initially set up in Hautes-Bruyères.
literature
- Jean Favier : Dictionnaire de la France médiévale . Paris 1993.
Web links
- Abbayes et prieurés des femmes - Hautes-Bruyères (French) ( Memento of October 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 48 ° 44 ′ 21 ″ N , 1 ° 53 ′ 38 ″ E