Fontainejean Monastery

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Fontainejean Cistercian Abbey
Ruin of the monastery church
Ruin of the monastery church
location FranceFrance France
Region Center-Val de Loire
Loiret department
Coordinates: 47 ° 50 '53 "  N , 2 ° 57' 37"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 50 '53 "  N , 2 ° 57' 37"  E
Serial number
according to Janauschek
24
founding year 1124
Year of dissolution /
annulment
1791
Mother monastery Pontigny monastery
Primary Abbey Pontigny monastery

Daughter monasteries

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The monastery Fontainejean ( lat . Fons Johannis ) is a former Cistercian abbey in the town of Saint-Maurice-sur-Aveyron in the Loiret region Center-Val de Loire , in France , in the countryside Gâtinais . The monastery is located around 27 km southeast of Montargis on the Aveyron , a small tributary of the Loing .

history

Engraving of the monastery ruins (1820)

The monastery was founded in 1124 at the request of Milon de Courtenay (who had already initiated the foundation of the Les Echarlis monastery and whose family provided several emperors and titular emperors of the Latin Empire ) in a lonely valley as the daughter of the Pontigny Primary Abbey . The monastery became the burial place - analogous to Saint-Denis for the royal family - of the de Courtenay family . In 1184, the future Archbishop of Bourges , later canonized Wilhelm von Donjeon , became abbot of the monastery. The draining of the damp area was difficult for the monastery. Nevertheless, a significant upswing in agriculture was achieved, above all through the monasteries Loisy, la Breuille, Chevaux, Perthuis, les Deux-Forêts, la Tuilerie, Tourteville, la Croix-Lambert and others, as well as 16 ponds. Several bishops and archbishops came from the monastery. In 1562 the abbey was taken by Protestant troops, with the 13th century monastery church in ruins. During the French Revolution , the monastic abbey was dissolved in 1791. The preserved choir was demolished between 1822 and 1834.

Buildings and plant

Part of the left transept with the chapels and a wall of the choir have been preserved from the 84 m long and 30 m high church. Part of the monastery grange from the 13th century is also still standing.

literature

  • Bernard Peugniez: Routier cistercien. Abbayes et sites. France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse. Nouvelle édition augmentée. Éditions Gaud, Moisenay 2001, ISBN 2-84080-044-6 , pp. 110-111.

Web links

Commons : Fontainejean Monastery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Biography of William of Donjeon in ök. Lexicon of saints