Cistercian Abbey of Valnègre

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The Cistercian Abbey Valnègre was from about 1200 to 1443 a monastery of Cistercian nuns in Saverdun , a municipality in the department of Ariege in France .

history

Around 1200, the Cistercian Abbey of Boulbonne founded a second women's monastery in the valley of the Lansonne stream near Saverdun, Valnègre (= dark valley) to accommodate female family members of the monks (after Marenx , 1159 ), which had forty members in 1316. In 1319 a third nunnery was added in Pamiers , Beaulieu-en-Mirepoix , which Valnègre helped to settle, but which only existed until 1370. In 1443 Valnègre was also closed. The property of the monastery fell to Boulbonne, like those of Beaulieu before. To the south of Saverdun, the district name Valnègre , as well as the existing field names Bannègre (also Bach name) and Allègre (as corruptions of Valnègre ) reminds of the monastery, of which there are no material remains.

literature

  • Casimir Barrière-Flavy (1863–1927): Histoire de la ville et de la châtellenie de Saverdun, dans l'ancien comté de Foix . Paul-Édouard private, Toulouse 1890.
  • Claude de Vic and Joseph Vaissète: Histoire générale de Languedoc . Vol. 4.2, pp. 851–852 (with list of abbesses).
  • Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne. Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, pp. 207–208.
  • Gereon Christoph Maria Becking: Cistercian monasteries in Europe. Card collection . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2000, p. 83A.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ C. de Vic: Histoire générale de Languedoc. ISBN 978-5-873-43410-7 , p. 851 ( limited preview in Google book search).

Coordinates: 43 ° 11 ′ 41.2 ″  N , 1 ° 33 ′ 45.6 ″  E