St-Yved (Braine)

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Saint-Yved de Braine monastery church

The Saint-Yved monastery in Braine, and in particular the monastery church, were the necropolis of the Counts of Dreux . The church was furnished with the relics of St. Yved and consecrated in the 9th century. In 1130 the Bishop of Soissons gave the abbey to the Premonstratensians . Since 1840, the Church as a standing monument historique under monument protection .

Braine was already a popular residence at the time of the Merovingians and the Capetians . Under the Capetians, the place became the property of a branch line, the Dreux family .

The monastery church was built by order of Agnès de Baudement, the wife of Robert I von Dreux , according to plans by André de Baudement. The tympanum on the main portal , which has been preserved (on the back of the current facade), is remarkable . The three-story nave was shortened by four zygomatic arches , and the crossing tower is 33 meters high. The portal sculptures are now in the Soissons Museum .

The relics of St. Yved and the Holy Victrice de Rouen in the 19th century in the cathedral of Rouen brought. Until the Revolution , the church also contained a number of tombs with enamelled copper base plates , samples of which are now in the Gaignières collection of the Bodleian Library in Oxford . After the revolution, the abbey was gradually destroyed.

Graves

Saint-Yved Monastery

literature

  • Bernard Ardura: Abbayes, prieurés et monastères de l'ordre de Prémontré en France, des origines à nos jours . Nancy 1993.
  • Abbé Henri Congnet: Notice sur la translation des reliques de Saint Yved et Saint Victrice en la ville de Braine . Paris 1865.
  • P. Evermode: L'abbaye royale de Saint-Yved de Braisne et son miracle eucharistique . In: Revue de l'Ordre de Prémontré et de sa mission . 1912.
  • Stanislas Prioux: Monograph de l'ancienne abbaye royale Saint Yved de Braine . Didron et Caudrillier, Paris 1859.

Footnotes

  1. Former Saint-Yved Abbey in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Web links

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