Boigny Castle

The Boigny castle stands in Boigny-sur-Bionne in the French department of Loiret near Orléans .

Order of Lazarus

Boigny Castle was given to the Military and Hospitable Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem ( Order of Lazarus ) by King Louis VII of France in 1154 with the recognition of its royal status.

After the defeat of the last crusader bastion Acre in 1291, in the defense of which almost all the Knights of Lazarus were killed, the order was forced to leave the Holy Land and Boigny became the seat of the Grand Magisterium until the French Revolution . In 1288, the ownership of the order at Boigny Castle was elevated to a barony with lower and higher jurisdiction.

Boigny Castle is still owned by the Order. Biogny has been the titular seat of the Order of Lazarus since 1967; a St. Lazarus Medico Social Center has been set up there since 1970.

Coordinates: 47 ° 55 ′ 29.5 ″  N , 2 ° 0 ′ 43 ″  E