Chelles Abbey

The Notre- Dame de Chelles Abbey (sometimes called Chelles -Saint -Bert Hour after its benefactor ) was a royal monastery at Chelles east of Paris.

History

Germ cell of the abbey was the Merovingian villa Cala. Queen Chrodechild († 544), wife of Clovis I, had already donated her a church dedicated to St. George. King Chilperic I ( † 584 ) and Queen Fredegunde († 597) resided here frequently. Chilperic was murdered while hunting near the villa. Around the year 658 St. George's Church and the Villa Cala by the Queen Bathilde, widow of Clovis II, extended to the nunnery were. Later Bathilde entered the monastery and died in 680 in Chelles.

For a long time, almost all abbesses widows, daughters or sisters of emperors or kings, what gereichte on time to the detriment of monastic discipline.. Étienne de Senlis and Louis de Beaumont, Bishop of Paris, tried in vain to reform the monastery, the one in 1134, another in 1483 until 1499, at the time of Bishop Jean Simon, this was achieved by a decision of the Parliament of Paris: From the year 1500, the abbesses were elected for three years with the possibility of re-election. But already in 1559 the king managed the election again and appointed from now on the abbesses itself

The monastery of the Benedictine nuns existed until the Revolution. The Abbey Chelles in 1790 closed in 1796 sold as national property and destroyed. The remains of the monastery are now part of the Mairie of Chelles.

Abbesses

  • Bertille, † 704, Bathilde girlfriend and first abbess
  • Sigisse (708 testifies )
  • Vilcome
  • Ermengarde
  • Clémence
  • Asceline
  • Sybille
  • Marsilie
  • Gisela ( 788-810 ), † 810, sister of Charlemagne
  • Heilwig from Saxony, † after 835, mother of the Empress Judith
  • Ermentrude, † 869, wife of Charles the Bald
  • Rothild, 912/922 testified as abbess, † 928/929, daughter of Charles the Bald

The trial of Charles the Simple in 922, to withdraw the abbey his aunt Rothild and give them his favorite Hagano led to the dismissal of Charles after a revolt of the nobility probably under the leadership of Hugo the Great, who in turn was the son Rothilds.

About 170 years, no abbesses are known

  • Mathilde (1097-1112)
  • Amelins or Aveline ( 1127/37 witnessed )
  • Maale or Mathilde ( 1156 attested )
  • Helvide or Héloise (1155-1177)
  • Asceline, † 1178
  • Marie de Duny (1178-1185)
  • Amelins, † 1205
  • Marie de Néry, † 1208
  • Mathilde de Berchère (1208-1220), † 1220
  • Mathilde de Corbeil (probably 1220-1223 )
  • Florence ( 1223 Abbess ), † 1228
  • Marguerite de Néry (1228-1231)
  • Pétronille de Mareuil (1231-1250), † 1250
  • Mathilde de Nanteuil (1250-1274), † 1274
  • Vacancy (1274-1280)
  • Adeline I. de Nanteuil (1280-1311), † 1311
  • Alice I. de Clignet d' Otis (1311-1317), † 1317
  • Marguerite II de Pacy (1317-1348)
  • Pétronille de Paroy (1348-1354)
  • Adeline de Pacy (1354-1363), † 1363
  • Jeanne I de Soissy (1363-1364), † 1364
  • Agnès I. de La Queue (1364-1368), † after 1368
  • Jeanne de La Forest (1368-1379), † 1379
  • Jeanne de Roye (1379-1399), † 1399, sister of Guy de Roye, archbishop of Reims
  • Agnès de Neufville (1399-1414)
  • Alice de Thorote (1414-1419)
  • Marie de Clery (1420-1429)
  • Elisabeth de Pollye (1429-1475), † 1475
  • Catherine de Lignières (1475-1500), † 1504

Elected for three years abbesses

  • Jeanne de La Rivière (1500-1507)
  • Marie de Reilhac (1507-1510), † 1547
  • Marie Cornu (1510-1514), † 1519
  • Catherine and Marguerite de Champrond (1518-1518), † 1518
  • Barbe de Tallensac (1518-1528), † 1537
  • Madeleine of Chelles (1528-1542), † 1542
  • Jacqueline d' Amignon (1542-1558), † 1558

From the king appointed abbesses

  • Renée de Bourbon (1559-1583), † 1583 daughter of Charles de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme
  • Marie de Lorraine (1583-1627), † 1627, daughter of Claude de Lorraine, duc d' Aumale
  • Marie -Henriette de Bourbon (1627-1629), † 1629, illegitimate daughter of King Henri IV
  • Madeleine de la Porte de la Meilleraye (1629-1671), † 1671
  • Guidone Marguerite de Cossé (1671-1680), 1st time, daughter of François de Cossé, duc de Brissac
  • Catherine de Scorailles de Roussille (1680-1688)
  • Guidone Marguerite de Cossé (1688-1707), 2nd time, † 1707
  • Charlotte Agnès de Villars (1707-1719), † 1723
  • Louise Adélaïde d' Orléans (1719-1734), daughter of Philippe II de Bourbon, duc d' Orléans
  • Anne de Clermont- Chaste de Gessans (1735-1790)

Other personalities

  • Hereswitha, Anglo-Saxon saint, sister of Hilda of Whitby
  • Swanahild, † after 743, wife of Charles Martel, buried in Chelles
  • Mildred of Minster
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