Savigny Monastery
| Cistercian Abbey of Savigny | |
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 Ruins of the monastery |
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| location |
 Franceregion Normandy department Manche |
| Coordinates: | 48 ° 30 '8.6 " N , 1 ° 1' 39.1" W |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
238 |
| founding year | 1147 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1790 |
| Mother monastery | Clairvaux Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
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The Savigny Abbey is a former Cistercian abbey in France . The former monastery, consisting of ruins , is located in the municipality of Savigny-le-Vieux , around eight kilometers south of Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët in the Manche department , Normandy region .
history
The monastery was founded in 1112 (or 1113) by Saint Vitalis on land donated by Raoul de Fougères ( House of Fougères ). It soon numbered 140 monks. His second abbot was Blessed Geoffroy from 1122 to 1138 . Under him, the monastery was based on the organizational scheme of the Cistercians ( filiation system , annual general chapter in the mother abbey of Savigny since 1132). Third abbot of Savigny was Ives from Furness Abbey , followed by Serlon in 1140. The Congregation of Savigny included at this time already 28 abbeys in France and the British Isles. In 1147, at the request of Serlon, who tried to forestall a split, the congregation's entry into the Cistercian order as a subsidiary of Clairvaux Monastery was approved. The Savigny filiation ultimately comprised 75 abbeys. A priory was built in Villers-Canivet in 1127, which was elevated to a royal abbey in 1681. Another priory was built in 1119 in Dompierre (15 km east of the monastery). The later Barbery monastery had been a grangie of Savigny monastery since 1140; it was elevated to an abbey in 1176. The monastery itself reached 300 monks and 100 conversations in the 14th century . The monastery was burned down during the Huguenot Wars of the 16th century. It was abolished in the French Revolution in 1790. In 1820 the complex was largely demolished.
Daughter monasteries
- - nunneries are not yet recorded -
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In France
- Les Vaux-de-Cernay Abbey (1118–1791)
- Chaloché Monastery (1121–1790)
- La Vieuxville Monastery (1121–1790)
- La Trappe Monastery (1122–1790, 1815–)
- Beaubec Monastery (1127–1790)
- Foucarmont Monastery (1130–1791)
- Aulnay Monastery (1131–1791)
- La Boissière Monastery (1131–1790)
- Fontaine-les-Blanches Abbey (1125, Savigny 1134–1791)
- Longvillers Monastery (1135–1791)
- Lannoy Monastery (1135–1790)
- Le Breuil-Benoît Monastery (1137–1790)
- St-André-de-Gouffern Abbey (1137–1790)
- Tironneau Monastery (1149–1790)
- La Boulaye Monastery (1170–?)
- Bon-Repos Monastery (1172–1790)
- Barbery Monastery (1176–1790)
- Champagne monastery (1188–?)
- Lieudieu Monastery (1191–?)
- Torigny Abbey (1307–?)
- Villers-Canivet Monastery (Priory 1127)
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In England
- Quarr Abbey (1131-1536)
- Combermere Abbey (1133-1538)
- Furness Abbey (1134-1537)
- Buildwas Abbey (1135-1536)
- Byland Abbey (1135 in Calder, 1177 in Byland, –1539)
- Calder Abbey (1135-1536)
- Swineshead Abbey (1135-1536)
- Stratford Langthorne Abbey (1135-1538)
- Buckfast Abbey (1018, Savigny 1136, –1539)
- Coggeshall Abbey (1140-1538)
- Jervaulx Abbey (1145-1537)
- Dieulacres Abbey (1146 / 1214–1538)
- Stanley Abbey (1151-1536)
- Whalley Abbey (1172 in Stanlow - 1537)
- Croxden Abbey (1176-1538)
- Hulton Abbey (1219-1538)
- Buckland Abbey (1278-1539)
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In Wales
- Neath Abbey (1130-1539)
- Basingwerk Abbey (1132–1536)
- Strata Marcella Abbey (1170, 1328 Buildwas Abbey subordinated, - 1536)
- Whitland Abbey (1140, 1328 under Buildwas Abbey, - 1539)
- In Northern Ireland
- In Ireland
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On the Isle of Man
- Rushen Abbey (1134-1540)
Buildings and plant
The monastery church, built since 1173 and completed around 1200, was 82 meters long. Little more remained of it than misshapen ruins that don't even look particularly picturesque (Musset). Nine chapels were arranged in a semicircle around the apse. Of the originally Romanesque convent building, there is still the double portal of the refectory framed with a zigzag bar, as well as part of the guest house, which is built into an agricultural property. The parish church of Savigny-le-Vieux has various furnishings, as does the collegiate church of Mortain . Various parts are also installed in Teilleul and Coutances .
gallery
literature
- Wilhelm Kohl: SERLO (Serlon), Abbot of Savigny. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 9, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-058-1 , Sp. 1459-1461.
- Wilhelm Kohl : VITALIS, Abbot of Savigny. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 12, Bautz, Herzberg 1997, ISBN 3-88309-068-9 , Sp. 1521-1522.
- Bernard Peugniez: Routier cistercien. Abbayes et sites. France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse. Nouvelle édition augmentée. Éditions Gaud, Moisenay 2001, ISBN 2-84080-044-6 , p. 315.
- Lucien Musset : Romanesque Normandy (West). (Lower Normandy). Zodiaque-Echter, Würzburg 1989, ISBN 3-429-01183-3 , p. 272.
- Béatrice Poulle: Les bâtiments de l'abbaye de Savigny. In: Richesses de la région de Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët (= Art de Basse-Normandie. No. 109, 1er trimestre 1997, ISSN 0571-1509 ). Association Art de Basse-Normandie, Caen 1997, pp. 45-53.
- Claude Auvry : Histoire de la congrégation de Savigny . 3 vols. Edited by Auguste Laveille. Lestringant, Rouen, and Picard, Paris 1896–1898.
- Brigitte Galbrun and Véronique Gazeau (eds.): L'abbaye de Savigny (1112–2012). Un chef d'ordre anglo-normand . Presses universitaires, Rennes 2019.
