St-Fursy (Péronne)
The Saint-Fursy church in Péronne in the French department of Somme was founded in the middle of the 7th century and demolished in 1794. St. Fursa and King Charles the Simple were buried in the church.
history
The body of the Irish saint Fursa ( Saint Fursy ) was buried around 650 in a church in Péronne. The caretaker Erchinoald († 658) had a larger church built over the tomb, which he consecrated to St. Fursa and entrusted to a group of clergy - including possibly Fursa's brothers Foillan and Ultan - who later formed a chapter . The church developed into a planting place for Irish monasticism and the veneration of St. Patrick in the Merovingian Empire .
The West Frankish kings Charles the Simple was after he had been taken prisoner in the year 923 and later died in Peronne, in the year 929 in Saint-Fursy buried.
The chapter was dissolved in 1790 and the Saint-Fursy collegiate church demolished in 1794. The courthouse was later built in the same place (Rue Saint-Fursy 57).
During excavations in 2003 at the site of the church, human bones were found, which led to the hypothesis that these were the bones of the king. However, there is no proof of this.
literature
- Jules Dournel, Histoire générale de Péronne (1879)
- Abbé Jules Gosselin, Histoire du chapitre royal de Saint-Fursy de Péronne (1874)
- William Mendel Newman (ed.), Charters of Saint-Fursy of Péronne (1977)
- Eustache de Sachy, Essais sur l'histoire de Péronne (1866)
Remarks
- ↑ O. Guyotjeannin: Péronne . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 6, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-7608-8906-9 , Sp. 1894.