Fontenelle Abbey

The Abbey of Saint - wall groove, the former Abbey of Fontenelle is a Benedictine abbey in the Seine -Maritime in Normandy, which has existed since the 7th century and is still used today. Since 1862 it stands as a monument historique a historical monument.

History

The monk Wandregisel, who worked in Normandy in the Mission, founded 649 the Abbey of Fontenelle on a site to it by the House Neustrian Meier Erchinoald had provided. After an initial heyday under the West Frankish Merovingians, a large part of their possessions lost the Abbey in the time of Charles Martel (especially under Abbot Teutsind ) again to worldly aristocrat. 787 was on the orders of Charlemagne Landry, the abbot of Jumièges and Richard, Earl of Rouen customize for the Abbey a wing altar that is now gone. Also to the year 787 dated detection of the entire land of the monastery, which was made on the orders of Charlemagne. This comes to the conclusion that the abbey about 4264 yards ( Manses ) and 28 mills possessed, as well as additional properties that had gone though virtually lost through mismanagement. Fontenelle was the third abbey in the province of Rouen St- Ouen and the Abbey Saint- Évroult.

The 830 wrote Gesta sanctorum patrum Fontanellensium ( dt: "Deeds of the Abbots of Fontenelle " ) are considered as the earliest evidence of monastic historiography in medieval times. Ever developed the abbey in the first half of the 9th century, an extremely lively writing activity. So here saints over the abbots Wandregisel, Lantbert and Ansbert, as well as the hermit Condedus, Bishop Erembert of Toulouse, Bishop Wulfram of Sens and the abbess Childemarca of Fécamp have emerged.

In a charter of Charles the Bald on 21 March 854, the possessions of the monks of Fontenelle are listed: in Le Pecq ( Yvelines), Chaussy (Val -d'Oise ), Pierrepont in the community Grancourt (Somme ), BUTION (not a localized place that needs to be located near Arpajon ) and Marcoussis ( Essonne ). A short time later, around 858, the abbey was plundered by the Normans and then abandoned.

To 960 arranged Richard I of Normandy, the restoration of the Abbey led by Gérard de Brogne to. Duke Robert the Magnificent, signed a document which the Abbey returned the lost goods, based on which the monastery in the Middle Ages founded his extraordinary wealth.

During the Wars of Religion, the abbey was sacked in May in 1562 by Protestants during the French Revolution ( 1789-1799 ) it was dissolved and sold.

1895 Saint- wall groove was reopened by the Sole Menser Benedictine monk Joseph Pothier and first performed as a branch monastery of the Abbey of Saint -Martin de Ligugé, then in 1898 raised to the independent Benedictine abbey and consecrated Pothier for the first abbot of the abbey. Some years it was rented out to the writer Maurice Maeterlinck.

Architecture

From the Dating back to the 13th century abbey church with stylistic elements of Normandy and the Île -de -France ruins are only available. A new abbey church was built by the monks with newly collected material derived from a demolished mansion from the Eure and from the time of the former church, itself. The cloister of the monastery with the statue of Notre- Dame de Fontenelle dates from the 14th century, the. Chapelle de Saint- Saturnin probably from the 10th or 11th century

The relics of canonized groove wall that were a thousand years preserved in Belgium, were returned after the restart to the monastery.

Abbots

Fontenelle

  • Holy wall groove, 649-668
  • Holy Lantbert, 668-678, 695 † ( Archbishop of Lyon)
  • Holy Ansbert, 678-690 ( Archbishop of Rouen )
  • Holy Hildebert I., 694-701
  • Holy Bainus, 701-710 ( Former Bishop of Therouanne 667-701 )
  • Saint Benignus, 710-724
  • Saint Hugh of Champagne, 725-732 (also bishop of Paris, Rouen and Bayeux at 720-730, Abbot of Jumièges )
  • Holy Lando, 732-735
  • Teutsind, 735-741 ( abbot of Saint -Martin de Tours )
  • Wido, 742-744, lay abbot, executed, also lay abbot of the abbey of Saint- Vaast (see Guidonen )
  • Rainfroy, 744-747
  • Holy Wandon, 747-748
  • Holy bienheureux Austrulf, 748-753
  • Witlaïc, 754-787

Saint- wall groove

  • Holy Gervold, 789-807 ( previously bishop of Evreux )
  • Trasaire, 806-817
  • Childebert II, 817-818
  • Einhard, 817-823
  • Holy Ansegis, 823-833
  • Joseph I, 833-834
  • Holy Fulk, 834-841
  • Hérimbert, 841-850
  • Ludwig, 850-867, grandson of Charlemagne ( Rorgoniden )
  • Ebles, 886-892
  • WOMAR, 950-960
  • Meinhard I, 960-966, Saint - wall groove for Mont -Saint -Michel gives up
  • Enjoubert to 980 († 993 )
  • Saint Gerhard I, 1008-1031
  • Holy Gradulphe (1029-1048)
  • Robert I (1048-1063)
  • Holy Gerbert (1063-1089)
  • Lanfranc (1089-1091)
  • Gerhard II (1091-1125)
  • Alain (1125-1137)
  • Saint Walter I. (1137-1150)
  • Roger (1150-1165)
  • Anfroy (1165-1178)
  • Walter II (1178-1187)
  • I. Geoffroy (1187-1193)
  • Robert II (1193-1194)
  • Reginald (1194-1207)
  • Robert III. de Villiers Monti (1207-1219)
  • Guillaume I de Bray (1219-1235)
  • Robert IV d' Hautonne (1235-1244)
  • Pierre I. Mauviel, 1244-1255
  • Geoffroy II de Noytot, 1255-1288
  • Guillaume II de Norville, 1288-1304
  • Guillaume III. Le Douille, 1304-1342
  • Jean I de Saint -Léger (1342-1344)
  • Richard de Chantemerle (1344-1345)
  • Robert V. Balbet (1345-1362)
  • Geoffroy III. Savary (1362-1367)
  • Geoffroy IV de Hotot, 1367-1389
  • Jean II de Rochois (1389-1412)
  • Jean III. de Bouquetot (1412-1418)
  • Guillaume IV Ferrechat (1419-1430)
  • Jean IV de Bourbon (1431-1444)
  • Jean de Brametot, 1444-1483
  • André d' Espinay, 1483-1500 ( commendatory, Archbishop of Bordeaux) Jean VI. Mallet
  • Gilles Duret 1565-1567
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