Buzay Abbey
Abbaye de Buzay | |
Cistercian | |
Established | 1134 |
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Mother house | Clairvaux Abbey |
Diocese | Nantes |
People | |
Founder(s) | Bernard of Clairvaux |
Abbot | See list |
Site | |
Location | Rouans, Pays de la Loire, France |
Coordinates | 47°12′25″N 1°49′32″W / 47.20683°N 1.82549°W |
Buzay Abbey, dedicated to Our Lady, was a Cistercian Abbey at Rouans in Pays de la Loire, France, formerly in Brittany, founded in 1135 and dissolved in 1790.
History
The abbey became rich, thanks to the salt trade,
With effect from 1474, commendatory abbots were appointed by the duke or king, replacing the regular abbots elected locally.[1]
During the
Daughter houses
From Buzay, three new Cistercian abbeys were instituted as daughter houses.[3]
On 1 July 1172, Buzay sent a few monks to the small Île du Pilier, north of Noirmoutier. However, the small windswept island posed so many problems for the new community that in 1205 the monks fell back on the island of Noirmoutier and founded the abbey of Our Lady the White.[2]
On 25 March 1200, at the request of Constance, Duchess of Brittany, monks were sent for the founding of her new Villeneuve Abbey,[6] on land belonging to Buzay, located on the Ognon, a river flowing into the lake of Grand-Lieu, near the Châtellenie of Touffou and the village of Bignon. The monks would help to drain the surrounding marshes, with advice from engineers of the Poitevin marshes, and would also help to dig a canal between Messan and the Loire.[2]
In 1259, Buzay was prosperous enough to establish Prières Abbey, at the request of John I, Duke of Brittany, and the Cistercian Order.[2]
List of Abbots
Regular
- 1144 : Pierre I[1]
- 1150–1153 : Guillaume I[1]
- 1155 : Adam[1]
- 1170 : Pierre II[1]
- 1175 : Geoffroi[1]
- 1177 : Richard[1]
- 1187 : Menno[1]
- 1199 : Guillaume II Robert[1]
- 1203 : Gaultier[1]
- 1206 : Égide I[1]
- 1206 : Raoul[1]
- 1232 : Richard II[1]
- 1236 : Mathieu[1]
- 1237 : Barthélemy[1]
- 1244 : Égide II[1]
- 1268 : Robert[1]
- 1270 : Samson[1]
- 1276 : Daniel[1]
- 1310 : Henri I[1]
- 1317 : Jean I[1]
- 1325 : Jean II de Mez[1]
- 1359 : Henri II[1]
- 1377 : Louis[1]
- 1384 : Guillaume III Maréchal[1]
- 1417 : Jean III Gendron[1]
- 1453 : Pierre Villageys[1]
- 1454–1471 : Humbert Boulay[1]
Commendatory
- 1474–1492 : Odet de la Rivière[1]
- 1492 : Pierre III Gigan[1]
- 1494–1512 : Jean IV Bohier[1]
- 1519 : Jean V[1]
- 1524–1543 : Louis Tissart[1]
- 1552 : Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine[1]
- 1564 : Henri III Clausse[1]
- 1576 : Pierre IV de Gondi[1]
- 1598–1622 : Henri IV Cardinal de Gondi[1]
- 1622–1654 : Jean VI François de Gondi[1]
- 1654–1675 : Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz[1]
- 1675–1733 : Jean VII François Paul Lefebvre de Caumartin[1]
- 1733–1737 : Louis de Bourbon-Condé, Count of Clermont[1]
- 1737 : Pierre V Augustin Bernardin de Rosset de Fleury[1]
- 1789–1790 : Jean Georges Lefranc de Pompignan[7]
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq Pierre-Hyacinthe Morice, Histoire ecclesiastique et civile de Bretagne (1756), p. cxxxix (in French)
- ^ JSTOR 43848255(in French)
- ^ a b c d e Abbaye de Buzay at infobretagne.com, accessed 27 April 2020
- ^ Anatole Bordot, Littérature française, Origines (1866), p. 121
- ^ A. R. Bridbury, England and the Salt Trade in the Later Middle Ages (Clarendon Press, 1955), p. 71
- ^ Morice (1756), pp. cliii–cliv (in French)
- ^ Ulysse Chevalier, Notice chronologico-historique sur les archevêques de Vienne (1879), p. 18: “Jean VII Georges Le Franc de Pompignan, évêque du Puy, lui succéda... il se démit alors de son siége et reçut l'abbaye de Buzay; il mourut le 29 décembre 1790”
Links
- LA TOUR DE BUZAY at pornic.com