Fontaine-Daniel monastery

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Fontaine-Daniel Cistercian Abbey
The monastery in 1806
The monastery in 1806
location FranceFrance France
region Pays de la Loire,
Mayenne department
Coordinates: 48 ° 16 '40 "  N , 0 ° 40' 22"  W Coordinates: 48 ° 16 '40 "  N , 0 ° 40' 22"  W.
Serial number
according to Janauschek 		545
founding year 1204
Year of dissolution /
annulment 		1791
Mother monastery Clairmont Monastery
Primary Abbey Clairvaux Monastery

Daughter monasteries

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The Fontaine-Daniel monastery (Fons Danielis) is a former Cistercian abbey in the Mayenne department , Pays de la Loire region in France . The monastery was located in the municipality of Saint-Georges-Buttavent in the hamlet of Fontaine-Daniel about 6 km southwest of Mayenne .

history

The monastery, which was initially founded in 1197 as the daughter of Clairmont Monastery from the Filiation of Clairvaux Primary Abbey in La Herperie near Bourg-Nouvel, was moved to Fontaine-Daniel in 1204. The monastery was founded by Juhel III, Baron von Mayenne . The monastery owned the forests of Salert and Poillé. It drained the valley of the Anvore. The church was consecrated in 1243. The monastery was affected by the Hundred Years War and looted by English troops in 1592. It came to an end during the French Revolution in 1791. From 1805, the buildings acquired by an industrialist, Jean-Pierre Horem, were used as a spinning and weaving mill.

Buildings and plant

View of the west wing

The three-aisled, non-vaulted church was demolished in 1793. The facade of the chapter house, the two-aisled, vaulted cellar known as the “Salle des Cacaudières” and the kitchen have been preserved. The gatehouse, which is used for agriculture, has a round-arched entrance and a Gothic window on the upper floor, which may have belonged to the former tourist chapel. The remaining buildings were erected in the 18th century. They have been registered as a Monument historique since 1927 .

literature

  • Bernard Peugniez: Routier cistercien. Abbayes et sites. France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse. Nouvelle édition augmentée. Éditions Gaud, Moisenay 2001, ISBN 2-84080-044-6 , p. 353.
  • Mémorial de la Mayenne , Godbert, 1845, pp. 380-381.
  • A. Grosse-Dupéron / C. Gouvrion: L'Abbaye De Fontaine-Daniel, Étude historique, et le Cartulaire de Fontaine-Daniel , Mayenne, Poiner-Béalu, 1890, 2 vols. (Reviewed by Comte de Beauchesne in Revue d'Histoire et d'Archéologie du Maine , 1897, Tome XLI, pp. 140-144.)
  • Jean-René Ladurée: Clairmont et sa fille, Fontaine-Daniel: deux fondations claravalliennes dans le Bas-Maine , Les cisterciens dans le Maine et dans l'Ouest au Moyen Âge , Ghislain Baury, Vincent Corriol, Emmanuel Johans and Laurent Maillet (eds .): Annales de Bretagne et des Pays de l'Ouest , Vol. 120, Sept. 2013, pp. 135–151.

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