Arrouaise Abbey
Arrouaise is the name of a forest, a monastery and a monastic order, which evolved from this monastery. However, the situation could be the Abbey is not precisely known, especially since ' Arrouaise ' simply an adjective to Arras Artois or been ( today adjective forms are ' arrageois ' and ' artesian ').
The layman Rogerius retired to eremitischer intention go back there and, after some time two companions: Heldemar from the region of Tournai and Cono from southern Germany. Gradually more and more fans came to this community. Rogerius was murdered by one of the members, and Heldemar succumbed to the injuries he had sustained during an argument. So took over in 1097 Cono line. The first bishop of the newly established Diocese of Arras Lambert of Guines, who had previously been a member of Regularkanonikerstiftes Saint -Quentin in Beauvais, the Community made a statute and a gift. Cono was over time bishop, cardinal and papal legate. 1106, the first church was consecrated in Arrouaise. 1107 the community reached the papal confirmation by Paschal II. Gervase in 1121 was abbot of the pen. He reformed the monastery by adding to the rules Augustine own execution rules, where he was inspired by Bernard of Clairvaux. So the Constitutiones Canonicorum regularium Ordinis Arroasiensis developed under the assistance of the Cistercian Summa Cartae Caritatis. The rule followed was the so-called " Regula tertia ", ie life after " ordo antiquus " of Canons Regular. But the rules of Prémontrés came to bear.
The Abbey became the center of Arrouaise Arrouaise Order. Reformed in 1138, the Bishop of Carlisle cathedral chapter be along the lines of Arrouaise, and the Order spread rapidly in England.
The roads that crossed the forest of Arrouaise, often along the old Roman roads, Paris combined with Flanders in the north-south direction, but also - as the Via Francigena - Calais (and England) with Dijon and Burgundy, had economic and diplomatic, but also as a pilgrimage to Rome importance.
The monastic community dedicated to the care of travelers who wanted to cross the then extensive and now largely felled forest of Arrouaise that a bolt from the foothills of the Ardennes in the east north of Saint- Quentin stretched as far as Bapaume south of Arras.
As an area where the monastery is to be sought, would the one hand, the headwaters of the rivers Somme, Sambre and Scheldt in question, in which there is a place called l' Arrouaise located 11.5 kilometers south of Le Cateau- Cambrésis on the road to Guise, northeast of Wassigny on the border of the département of Aisne to the Nord; However, this Arrouaise is so off the main roads, it only comes to the hermitage, but hardly for the supply of travelers in question.
Further west, at Aubencheul -aux -Bois in today's National Highway 44, halfway between Cambrai and Saint -Quentin, " in the woods of Arrouaise ", there was a small, founded in the 11th century abbey; near the abbey lie west the places Mesnil -en- Arrouaise ( the Somme 10 km south-east of Bapaume ) and southeast of Montigny -en- Arrouaise ( in the department of Aisne 15 km northeast of Saint- Quentin ), and - in the immediate vicinity - Gouy, formerly Gouy -en- Arrouaise said. Aubencheul lies on the border between Picardy and Hainault and is much better suited as a location to supply travelers or pilgrims from. The ruins of this abbey there are four kilometers south of Gouy at the source of the Scheldt at a place now called Mont -Saint -Martin.
Houses of the Order Arrouaise
In England
- Bourne Abbey (SS Peter and Paul )
- Carlisle Cathedral Priory ( The Holy Trinity )
- Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire (St. Peter )
- Lesnes Abbey
- Lilleshall Abbey
- Missenden Abbey
- Notley Abbey
In Ireland
- Priory of St. Michael Ballinskelligs
- Bangor Abbey ( Northern Ireland)
- Clonard Abbey
- S. Thomas ' Abbey, Dublin
- Duleek
- Durrow
- Kells Friary
- Knock
- Navan
- Saul, County Down (Northern Ireland)
- Trim