Cistercian Abbey of Bival
The Cistercian Abbey Bival was from the 12th century to 1790, a monastery of Cistercian nuns in Nesle-Hodeng in Neufchatel-en-Bray in Seine-Maritime in France.
history
Between 1128 and 1167, the local nobility founded the nunnery of Sainte Marie-Madeleine von Bival, eight kilometers south-east of Neufchâtel-en-Bray in the area of today's municipality of Nesle-Hodeng , which was subordinate to the Beaubec monastery and became a Cistercian. Since it came to a conflict with Beaubec, the monastery survived only thanks to the support it received from the Empress Matilda and her son Heinrich II. Plantagenet . In 1175 the priory was elevated to an abbey and subordinated to the Bishop of Rouen . Bival later became a royal abbey. In 1790 the French Revolution led to the dissolution of the monastery. Today the district name Bival reminds of the monastery. A few remaining buildings are part of an agricultural operation. The Cistercian convents of Bondeville , Saint-Saëns , Neufchâtel and Yvetot started from Bival .
literature
- J. Malicorne: Documents et courte notice sur l'abbaye de Bival (arrondissement de Neufchâtel), du XIIe siècle jusqu'en 1789. L. Gy, Rouen 1897. 99 pages.
Manual literature
- Laurent Henri Cottineau : Repertoire topo-bibliographique des abbayes et prieurés . Vol. 1. Protat, Mâcon 1939–1970. Reprint: Brepols, Turnhout 1995. Column 385.
- Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 265.
- Gereon Christoph Maria Becking: Cistercian monasteries in Europe. Map collection , Lukas Verlag Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-931836-44-4 , sheet 53 C.
Web links
- Mentioned in the Encyclopaedia Cisterciensis
- Entry on the Certosa di Firenze website
- Page in the Cistercian project by the photographer Carsten Gier
- Archive page with history of the monastery and list of abbesses, French
- Authority record of the monastery in the French National Library
Coordinates: 49 ° 42 ′ 12.3 " N , 1 ° 32 ′ 33.6" E