Saint-Lézer Priory
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The Saint-Lézer Priory is a former monastery of the Benedictine order in Saint-Lézer in the Hautes-Pyrénées department . The prior of the monastery was directly subordinate to the abbot of the Cluny monastery . The former priory site has been classified as a Monument historique since 1987 .
history
Already at the end of the 6th century a church dedicated to St. Abbey consecrated to Lézer . It was on the slope above the city and directly on the wall of the former Gallo-Roman Castrum Bigorra .
This first monastery building was destroyed in the 8th century by the Arabs (732 / Battle of Tours and Poitiers ), in the 9th century by the Vikings (recurring raids since 840).
It was not until the beginning of the 11th century (an exact date is unknown) that the monastery could be re-established. However, the Count and Bishop of Bigorre placed it under the sovereignty of the Abbey of Cluny.
In the course of the French Revolution , the monastery was given to Bertrand Barère as a national property, and stone by stone was removed and sold.
The church in the 18th century was preserved and can be visited.
literature
- Roland Cocquerel: Castrum Bigorra Saint-Lézer . Société Ramond, Bagnères-de-Bigorres 1993.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Saint-Lézer in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ^ Coquerel p. 35
- ^ Coquerel p. 129
Coordinates: 43 ° 22 '19.1 " N , 0 ° 1' 48.9" E