Monchy Monastery

Monchy Monastery, remains of the building (around 1900)

The Monchy Monastery (also: Mouchy / Mouchi ) was from 1237 to 1791 a monastery first of the Cistercian Sisters , from 1460 the Cistercian Sisters and from 1671 again the Cistercian Sisters in Monchy-Humières , Département Oise , Diocese of Beauvais in France.

history

Anne-Louise de Crevant-d'Humières (1658–1710), Reform Abbess

A local nobleman founded the Cistercian convent (later abbey ) Notre-Dame sur Aronde or Notre-Dame de Monchy (Latin: Monchiacum Petrosum , hence also: Monchy-le-Perreux , Monchy-le-Pereux or Monchy- in 1237 northwest of Compiègne on the Aronde river ) le-Preux ). In 1460 the nuns were replaced by monks from the Ourscamp monastery, making Monchy the priory of Ourscamp. This situation was put to an end in 1671 by Marshal Louis de Crevant, duc d'Humières (who lived in Castle Monchy-Humières) by restoring the Cistercian abbey under the leadership of his sister Elisabeth de Crevant d'Humières (abbess from 1671 to 1684), followed by his Daughter Anne-Louise de Crevant d'Humières (1684–1710, born 1658), whom the Benedictine Michel Félibien (1665–1719) praised as Reform Abbess. In 1791, the French Revolution led to the abbey being dissolved. The elements Couvent and Abbaye in various street and settlement names are reminiscent of the former monastery in Monchy-Humières .

literature

• Armelle Bonis and Monique Wabont: Cisterciens et Cisterciennes en France du Nord-Ouest . In: Bernadette Barrière and Marie-Elisabeth Montulet-Henneau (eds.): Cîteaux et les femmes . Creaphis éditions, Paris 2001, pp. 151–171 (here p. 162).
• Charles Delettre: Histoire du diocèse de Beauvais . Vol. 3. Achille Desjardins, Beauvais 1843, pp. 506-509.
• Michel Félibien: La Vie de Madame d'Humières abbesse et réformatrice de l'abbaye de Monchy de l'ordre de Cisteaux, décédée le 20 janvier 1710 . J. Estienne, Paris 1711 (with a reprint of her work Sentiments de piété sur l'Eucharistie ).

Manual literature

• Gereon Christoph Maria Becking: Cistercian monasteries in Europe, map collection . Lukas Verlag Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-931836-44-4 , sheet 53 C (Mouchy).
• Laurent Henri Cottineau : Repertoire topo-bibliographique des abbayes et prieurés . Vol. 2. Protat, Mâcon 1939-1970. Reprint: Brepols, Turnhout 1995. Column 1881 (Monchy-Humières).
• Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 300 (Monchy).

Web links

• Entry Monchy in the Cistercian project of the photographer Carsten Gier
• Cartographic page of the monastery
• Catalog note on the portrait of Louise de Crevant d'Humières
• Crevant, Marie-Louise, in: Biographia Cisterciensis (Cistercian Biography)

Individual evidence

1. ^ University of Lyon

Coordinates: 49 ° 28 ′ 7.7 "  N , 2 ° 45 ′ 47.5"  E