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Anne d'Orléans (1464 – 1491 in Poitiers) was a French abbess. She was the youngest child of Charles, Duke of Orléans, and Maria of Cleves. Her only brother became King Louis XII of France in 1498. Life. Anne became abbess of Fontevraud in 1477. This was an abbey in which both monks and nuns lived, but which was always ruled by an abbess.
Né en 1464, elle est la seconde fille de Charles, duc d’Orléans, et de Marie de Clèves et la sœur du futur Louis XII 1. En 1478, elle devint l’abbesse de l' abbaye de Fontevraud. Comme son prédécesseur, Marie de Bretagne, sa cousine germaine, elle a supervisé les réformes de l'abbaye 2. Elle y reçoit la visite de Charles VIII de ...
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Founder
Robert of Arbrissel had served as the Archpriest of the Diocese of Rennes, carrying out the reformist agenda of its bishop. When the bishop died in 1095, Robert was driven out of the diocese due to the hostility of the local clergy. He then became a hermit in the forest of Craon, where he practiced a life of severe penance, together with a number of other men who went on to found major monastic institutions. His eloquence and asceticism attracted many followers, for whom in 1096 he founded a...
Fontevraud
Around 1100 Robert and his followers settled in a valley called Fons Ebraldi where he established a monastic community. Initially the men and women lived together in the same house, in an ancient ascetic practice called Syneisaktism. This practice had been widely condemned by Church authorities, however, and under pressure the community soon segregated according to gender, with the monks living in small priories where they lived in community in service to the nuns and under their rule. Someti...
Decline
With the passing of the Plantagenet dynasty, Fontevrault and her dependencies began to fall upon hard times. At the end of the 12th century, the Abbess of Fontevrault, Matilda of Flanders (1189–1194), complained about the extreme poverty which the abbey was suffering. As a result, in 1247 the nuns were permitted to receive inheritances to provide income for their needs, contrary to monastic custom. The fragile economic basis of the Order was exacerbated by the devastation of the Hundred Years...
Audeburge of Hautes-Bruyères (1155–1180) She founded Amesbury Abbey, near Stonehengein England, in 1177Gilles or Gillette (1180–1189)Church
1. West facade 2. Chevet 3. Nave interior 4. View of choir, ambulatory, and choir chapel
The abbey was originally the site of the graves of King Henry II of England, his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, their son King Richard I of England, their daughter Joan, their grandson Raymond VII of Toulouse, and Isabella of Angoulême, wife of Henry and Eleanor's son King John. However, there is no remaining corporal presence of Henry, Eleanor, Richar...
Jean Genet described the experiences of a thirty-year-old prisoner at Fontevraud in his semi-autobiographical novel, Miracle de la rose, although there is no evidence that Genet was ever imprisoned there himself. La Cage aux Rossignols (A Cage of Nightingales), a French film released in 1945, was filmed at the abbey.
Vincent, Nicholas (2007). "The Court of Henry II". In Harper-Bill, Christopher; Vincent, Nicholas (eds.). Henry II: New Interpretations. The Boydell Press.Berman, Constance Hoffman (2018). The White Nuns: Cistercian Abbeys for Women in Medieval France. University of Pennsylvania Press.Mews, Constant J. (2006). "Negotiating the Boundaries of Gender in Religious Life: Robert of Arbrissel and Hersende, Abelard and Heloise". Viator. CMRS Center for Early Global Studies. 37: 113-148....Melot, Michel (1971) L'abbaye de Fontevrault. Paris: Jacques Lanore[Nicquet, H.] (1586) Histoire de l'ordre de Fontevrault. Angers, 1586; and Paris, 1643Édouard (pseud. of A. Biron) (1873–74) Fontevrault et ses monuments; ou histoire de cette royale abbaye depuis sa fondation jusqu'à sa suppression, 1100–1793. 2 vols.Histoire de l'ordre de Fontevrault, 1100–1908; by the Religious of Sainte-Marie-de-Fontevrault-de-Boulaur (afterwards at Vera in Navarre). 3 vols. Auch, 1911–15In 1975, the Royal Abbey of Fontevraud opened to the public, ending nine centuries of life behind closed doors and opening the way to the ‘ideal city’ – in the words of its founder – that can be visited today. Fontevraud Abbey was founded in 1101 by iconoclastic preacher Robert d’Arbrissel. Eleanor of Aquitaine is the emblematic ...
The following is a list of abbesses of Fontevraud, heads of Fontevraud Abbey, founded by Robert of Arbrissel. Pages in category "Abbesses of Fontevraud" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
Isabeau managed Sainte-Croix’s estates, protected the nuns’ privileges, and renewed their alliances with France’s king and his local representatives.29 Following Isabeau’s death in 1484 the nuns of Sainte-Croix were governed by Anne d’Orléans, also abbess of Fontevraud, about 80 km from Poitiers; Anne remained abbess of both communities until her death in 1491.
22 feb 2024 · Petronilla was the first abbess in the monastic history of Fontevraud, but it is also the name given to the bell that you can see in the picture. It takes its marks on the heights of the abbey. Search for the other bells in the gardens and inside the abbey!
