Laurus Monastery
| Cistercian Abbey Laurus | |
|---|---|
| location | Constantinople or Achaia |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
568 |
| founding year | 1214 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
before 1276 |
| Mother monastery | Bellevaux monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Morimond Monastery |
|
Daughter monasteries |
no |
The Laurus Monastery was a Cistercian abbey in the area of the Crusader States on the Aegean Sea .
history
The Cistercian monastery is said to have been built in the time of the Latin Empire in 1214 as a subsidiary of Bellevaux Monastery from the filiation of the Morimond Primary Abbey .
Richard assumes that the rare mentions of the monastery are actually referring to Daphni Monastery . Tsougarakis gives several counter arguments in a more recent work and considers the existence of the monastery to be possible. Laurus was mentioned at the General Chapter of the Cistercian Order in 1268. There was no mention of Daphni monastery that year, but the convent was otherwise referred to exclusively as Dalphino or Dalfino . In 1268 Count Boscho's stepmother was named as the founder of Laurus. In contrast, the Daphni foundation was made by Otto de la Roche and not by a noblewoman of the Boscho family. Since Laurus still existed in 1268, the monastery cannot have been in Constantinople, as the Latin Empire had come to an end in 1261. Therefore, it may have been in the Principality of Achaia on the site of the former Orthodox monastery of St Laura . Laurus must then have perished before 1276, since after that year Daphni was the only remaining Cistercian convent in Greece.
literature
- Jean Richard: Laurum. Une abbaye cistercienne fantôme. In: Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes . (1971), No. 129-2, pp. 409-410.
- Nickiphoros I. Tsougarakis: The Western Religious Orders in Medieval Greece. Leeds 2008.