Cistercian Abbey of La Brayelle

The Cistercian abbey La Brayelle was from 1196 to 1790, a monastery of Cistercian nuns in Annay (Pas-de-Calais) , Roman Catholic Diocese of Arras in France .

history

The monastery La Brayelle (also: Notre-Dame d'Annay ) was settled in 1196 in Annay near Lens (Pas-de-Calais) by nuns from the Cistercian abbey of Blendecques . It was under the monastery of Vaucelles . In 1233 nuns from La Brayelle settled in the Cistercian Abbey of Le Saulchoir and in 1235 in the Cistercian Abbey of Biaches . The Grangie Marqueffles in Bouvigny-Boyeffles served the monastery as a refuge in the 13th century. After the closure of La Brayelle by the French Revolution (and death of the last abbess by the guillotine in 1794), the buildings in Annay were not finally destroyed until 1917. The nun Hombeline Lecouvreur (1750–1829) from La Brayelle, who, among other things, moved to the monastery Himmelpforten (Ense) belonged to the circle of founders of the Saint Bernard Sisters of Esquermes , whose mother house is now the monastery of La Cessoie .

literature

• Marie de la Trinité Kervingant, Des moniales face à la Révolution française. Aux origines des Cisterciennes-Trappistines . Paris, Beauchesne, 1989, pp. 51-52.
• Auguste Leman: Histoire de la fondation du monastère de N.-D. de la Plaine à Esquermes . Lille, A. Margerin, 1927.
• Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Strasbourg, Editions du Signe, 2012, pp. 242–243, also 247 and 392.

Web links

• Mention of “Brayelle, la” in the Encyclopaedia Cisterciensis, without information
• Mention of La Brayelle in the history of the Saint Bernard, French
• Information from the municipality of Annay on La Brayelle, French
• Private site for the Grangie Marqueffles, French

Coordinates: 50 ° 27 '31.3 "  N , 2 ° 51' 48.1"  E