Couvent des Célestins

The Couvent de Celestine ( Covenant of Celestine ) in Paris was a monastery in what is now the 4th arrondissement.

History

The Celestine sat on a site which had given them in 1352 Marcel Garnier, adjacent to the former Rue de Pute -y- Musse, now the Rue du Petit Musc, directly east of the Hôtel Saint -Paul.

This position earned them the task to make the brotherhood of Notaries, the chaplains and later even the secretaries of the king. The favor of John the Good, and especially Charles V gave them the means from 1367 to build a large church, the Annunciation or les Celestine called one of the most popular shrines in Paris. The princes of the House of Orléans made ​​from it its necropolis, to the Abbey of Saint- Denis, the second largest of the Capetians.

Today there is the Convention of Celestine no longer remains - where the monastery stood at the time, today runs the Boulevard Henri IV

Burials

In the abbey church of the Couvent des Célestins were buried:

• The bowels of Queen Jeanne de Bourbon ( † 1378 )
• Leon V. († 1393 ), the last king of Little Armenia
• Johann († 1393 ), son of Louis of Orléans and Valentina Visconti, in childhood
• Ludwig ( † 1395 ), son of Louis of Orléans and Valentina Visconti, in childhood
• Louis of Orléans ( † 1407)
• Valentina Visconti († 1408), transferred from the Church of the Couvent des Cordeliers in Blois
• Philip, Count of Vertus († 1420 ), son of Louis of Orléans and Valentina Visconti
• Anne of Burgundy ( † 1432 ), first wife of John of Lancaster ( John of Lancaster), 1st Duke of Bedford, and later transferred to the grave place of the Dukes of Burgundy, the Chartreuse de Champmol.
• Charles, Duke of Orléans ( † 1465 ), son of Louis of Orléans and Valentina Visconti, 1504 transferred from the Church of St- Sauveur de Blois.