Abbey of Saint Bertin
The Abbey of St. Bertin (French Abbaye Saint- Bertin ) is a former monastery in the Nord- Pas de Calais in northern France. In the first half of the 7th century was Audomarus (also Otmarus, Odemaars, Omaars or Omer called ), has been appointed by King Dagobert Bishop of Tervanna. Audomar sent now probably around 648 for the conversion of the local population, the monks Bertinus, Mummolinus and Ebertramnus (or Bertramnus ) in the swampy area north of Tervanna to build a monastery there. So first was the Vetus monasterium ( "Historic building ", now St- Momelin ). However, the place was too swampy and a local landowner named Frankish Adrowald gave them the 21 -meter-high hill called Sithiu, located directly on the banks of the Aa. There, the monks built the monastery " Sithiu ". Bertinus, the first abbot, was the disciple of a trailer of St. Columbanus of Luxeuil († 615) and later became the "apostle" of today Pas -de -Calais. After his funeral, the monastery got its name. His brother, however, was appointed to Mummolinus 660 as the successor of Eligius as Bishop of Noyon.
The Merovingian Childeric III. was IV of Charles Martel from 737, the year of King Theodoric, imprisoned as heir to the throne in Saint- Bertin; 743 brought by his son Carloman back to the government, 751 deposed by Pippin the Younger again and again, this time as a monk, brought to Saint - Bertin.
To the abbey, the town of Saint -Omer, which grew so rapidly that they at the beginning of the 14th century already had about 40,000 inhabitants developed.
1789, during the French Revolution, the abbey of Saint- Bertin was dissolved. The stones of the existing and coming from the years 1250 to 1520 the building served after the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte as a material for public buildings in Arras - 1830, the complex was demolished by the municipality.
In the 19th century Saint- Bertin was a college, in which, among other of the later French President Henri Philippe Petain in 1867 received his training before moving to the Military Academy of Saint- Cyr in 1876.
In the ruins of the abbey in the town of Saint -Omer is a maze.
The Annals of St. Bertin are an important source for the history of the 9th century: the battle of Brissarthe ( 866), the first mention of the city of Montreuil ( 898), the history of Rus etc. find their description. Your name, these annals of the coming of the Monastery, the oldest surviving manuscript of the work. However, it has neither written by a monk of St. Bertin yet it portrays the history of the abbey.
List of abbots
Abbots of the monastery of Saint- Bertin were:
- Bertin († 700 ), first abbot in 640 - 700, 5 September Remembrance
- Rigobertus
- Erlefridus
- Erkembodo († 732)
- Fridugisus († 834 ), 819 Lord Chancellor of Louis the Pious, abbot of Saint -Martin de Tours
- Hugo († June 14 844 ), the illegitimate son of Charlemagne and Louis the Pious Lord Chancellor, Abbot 836-844 ( Carolingian )
- Hugo Abbas († May 12 886 ), Abbot 859-862 ( Guelph )
- Fulk I, 18th Abbot
- Hildouin, 19 Abbot
- Fulk II, the 20th abbot
- Adalhard († April 3 864 ), son Unruochs ( Unruochinger )
- Adalhard ( † after July 1 874), his nephew ( Unruochinger )
- Raoul / Rudolf ( † May 1 892 ), whose brother ( Unruochinger )
- Adalolf
- Gérard de Brogne
- Odbert, abbot 987-1007, under the Saint- Bertin an important center before pre-Romanesque was
- Lambert of Saint- Bertin (* 1060, † June 22, 1125 ), abbot from 1095 to 1125, the 1099/1101 of the Cluniac reform joined Saint- Bertin
- Simon van Gent, abbot 1131-1137
- Simon of Saint- Bertin, abbot 1138-1148, previously abbot of Auchy who was so hated that he had to wait seven years after his election before he could take office; Memorial Day February 24
- Leo van Sint- Bertinus, abbot in 1138
- Hendricus de Condescure
- Jan van Ieper, 58th Abbot ( 1365-1383 )
- Johannes de Griboval, 62 Abbot (approx. 1430)
- Guillaume Fillastre the Younger, 64th Abbot
- Anton de glymes († 1531), 67th abbot, Abbot of Saint- Bertin in 1493 (House glymes )