Marquette Cistercian Abbey
The Cistercian Abbey of Marquette was 1226-1791 a monastery of Cistercian nuns in Marquette-lez-Lille , Nord in France .
history
Johanna von Flanders , daughter of Emperor Baldwin of Constantinople and wife of Ferdinand of Portugal , founded the monastery in 1226 (in Marcq-en-Barœul , from 1236 in Marquette, on the banks of the Deûle ) and was buried in the abbey in 1244. In 1791 the French Revolution destroyed and demolished the buildings, and later they were used as industrial sites. It was not until the end of industrial activity in recent times that the abbey, which could be considered one of the largest in France, was archaeologically worked on from 2003 and entered the list of historical monuments of the French Ministry of Culture in 2005 as a historical monument.
Marquette belongs to a group of 13 Cistercian convents ( Beaupré , Blendecques , Bonham , La Brayelle , Flines , Fontenelles , Marquette, Les Prés , Ravensberg , Le Verger , Le Vivier , La Woestyne ), which were privately owned around 1200 within a short time and in a small space and only five Cistercian monasteries ( Cercamp , Clairmarais , Longvillers , Loos and Vaucelles ) face it. Famous is Marquette's Bible from 1270, a gift from Philip III. of Burgundy . It is located in the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles .
literature
- Bernadette Barrière and Marie-Elisabeth Montulet-Henneau (eds.), Cîteaux et les femmes. Architectures et occupation de l'espace dans les monastères féminins. Modalités d'intégration et de contrôle des femmes dans l'Ordre. Les moniales cisterciennes aujourd'hui . Créaphis éditions, Grâne 2001 (files from a colloquium from 1998, here: p. 100).
- André Joseph Ghislain Le Glay, Cameracum christianum ou Histoire ecclésiastique du Diocèse de Cambrai . L. Lefort, Lille 1849, pp. 317–321 (with list of abbesses).
- Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 237.
Web links
- Mention of Marquette-lez-Lille in the Encyclopaedia Cisterciensis
- Entry Marquette in the Base Mérimée
- Monastery area 1686, picture
- Monastery area today, picture
- Information from the community on the archaeological maintenance of the remains of the monastery, in French
- Newspaper article about the excavations, French
- Entry to Marquette's Bible, English
Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 14 " N , 3 ° 3 ′ 36.2" E