Cistercian Abbey of La Bourdillière
The Cistercian abbey La Bourdillière was 1662-1778 a monastery of Cistercian nuns in Genillé , Indre-et-Loire , Archdiocese of Tours in France.
history
A wealthy member of the family de Menou , numerous sisters, daughters and nieces, had founded in 1662 by Archbishop Victor Le Bouthillier of Tours for his family northeast hole in Genillé on the river Indrois by buying an old mansion the nunnery La Bourdillière (the name of the Mansion, the chapel was dedicated to Notre-Dame de Pitié ). The first abbess, Claude de Menou, older sister of the founder, was a nun of the Cistercian abbey of La Virginité . The original priory was elevated to a royal Cistercian abbey in 1688. The monastery (at times with 50 nuns) had the peculiarity of being almost exclusively inhabited by one and the same family. Financial difficulties led to the official dissolution in 1770, which took effect in 1778. Remaining buildings (the church has been destroyed) have been a listed building since 1951. In the church of Sainte-Eulalie in Genillé, a plaque commemorates the former monastery.
Prioresses and abbesses
- 1662-1691: Claude de Menou
- 1691–1695: Catherine de Menou
- 1695–1734: Catherine de Menou (niece of the previous abbess)
- 1734–1752: Catherine-Françoise de Menou
- 1752–1764: Marie-Éléonore de la Roche-Menou
- 1764-1778: Agathe de la Pagerie
literature
- Guy Oury: Un monastère familial au XVIIe siècle. Le prieuré cistercien de La Bourdillière (1662–1769) . In: Revue Mabillon 58, 252, 1973, pp. 181-187.
- Christophe Meunier: Genillé au fil des temps . H. de Chivré, Chemillé-sur-Indrois 2006.
- Gereon Christoph Maria Becking: Cistercian monasteries in Europe, map collection . Lukas Verlag Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-931836-44-4 , sheet 63 C.
- Laurent Henri Cottineau : Repertoire topo-bibliographique des abbayes et prieurés . Vol. 1. Protat, Mâcon 1939–1970. Reprint: Brepols, Turnhout 1995. Column 459.
- Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 109.
Web links
- Entry in the Cistercian project of the photographer Carsten Gier
- Brief history of the monastery, French, illustrated, with list of abbesses
- Longer monastery history, French, illustrated, with localization
- Entry of the monastery in the database of the French Ministry of Culture
- Entry of the abbess status of the monastery in the database of the French Ministry of Culture
- Monument site of the monastery
Coordinates: 47 ° 11 ′ 10.6 " N , 1 ° 5 ′ 11.8" E