Corbie Abbey

Coordinates: 49°54′32″N 2°30′37″E / 49.90889°N 2.51028°E / 49.90889; 2.51028
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Abbey church of Corbie.

Corbie Abbey is a former

Balthild, the widow of Clovis II, who had monks sent from Luxeuil
. The Abbey of Corbie became celebrated both for its library and the scriptorium.

Foundation

It was founded in 661 under the

Benedictine rule
, as Columbanus had modified it.

Its

Saint Jerome. Dr. Tino Licht of Heidelberg University discovered a manuscript from Corbie Abbey written in the Caroline minuscule that predates Charlemagne's rule. According to Dr. Licht, "They were trying it out. In the Middle Ages a script like this ...was developed as part of the living tradition of a scriptorium. In the 8th century Corbie was something akin to a laboratory for new scripts."[3]

Besides gifts of estates to support the abbey, many exemptions were granted to the abbots, to free them from interference from local bishops: the exemptions were confirmed in 855 by

mint
.

Medieval period

Adam and Eve on a late 12th century capital from the abbey (Musée de Picardie, Amiens)

Corbie continued its intimate links with the royal house of the Carolingians. In 774

Abbey of Corvey in Saxony.[1]
In the ninth century Corbie was larger than St. Martin's Abbey at Tours, or
Radbertus Paschasius (died 865) and Hadoard
.

Saint Gerald of Sauve-Majeure was born in Corbie and became a child oblate at the Abbey, where he then became a monk and served as cellarer. He later went on to found Grande-Sauve Abbey.[4]

In 1137 a fire destroyed the monastic buildings but they were rebuilt on a larger scale. Saint

Third Order of St. Francis,[5] and became a hermit under the direction of the Abbot of Corbie, and lived near the abbey church. She later founded the Colettine Poor Clares
.

Commendatory abbots were introduced in 1550, amongst those that held the benefice was Cardinal Mazarin. The somewhat drooping fortunes of the abbey were revived in 1618, when it was one of the first to be incorporated into the new Congregation of Saint Maur. At its suppression in 1790 the buildings were partly demolished, but the church remains to this day, with its imposing portal and western towers.[1]

Library

Corbie was renowned for its library, which was assembled from as far as Italy, and for its

patristic writings, it is recognized as an important center for the transmission of the works of Antiquity to the Middle Ages. An inventory (of perhaps the 11th century) lists the church history of Hegesippus
, now lost, among other extraordinary treasures.

Among students of

pseudepigraphically
under Tertullian's name. The origin of this group of non-orthodox texts has not satisfactorily been identified.

Among students of medieval architecture and engineering, such as are preserved in the notebooks of

Boethius and works by Cassiodorus
(Zenner).

In 1638,

Bibliothèque Nationale
. Over two hundred manuscripts from the great library at Corbie are known to survive.

Modern times

paleography, had been a monk at Corbie. The village of Corbie grew up round Corbie Abbey and was close to the fighting during the Battle of the Somme. Between 22 April and 10 May 1918, Corbie was heavily shelled by the Germans and the church sustained many direct hits.[6]

Burials

List of abbots

This list is drawn from the Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie Ecclesiastique[full citation needed].

Regular abbots
  • 662–675 : Theofrid
  • 675–6?? : Rodogaire
  • 6??–716 : Erembert
  • 716–741 : Sébastien I
  • 741–751 : Grimo
  • 751–765 : Léodegaire
  • 765–771 : Addo
  • 771–780 : Maurdramne (Mordramnus)
  • 780–824 : Adalard of Corbie,
  • 824–836 : Wala of Corbie
  • 836–840 : Heddo
  • 840–843 : Isaac
  • 843–851 : Paschasius Radbertus
  • 851–860 : Odo
  • 860–862 : Angelbert
  • 862–875 : Trasulphe
  • 875–884 : Hildebert
  • 884–890 : Gonthaire
  • 890–891 : Heilo
  • 891–893 : Francon d'Amiens
  • 893-914 : Evrard
  • 914–929 : Bodon
  • 929–937 : Gautier I
  • 937–03/09/945 : Bérenger
  • 03/09/945–??/11/945 : Héribald
  • ??/11/945–986 : Ratold
  • 986–1014 : Maingaud
  • 1014–1033 : Herbert
  • 1033–1048 : Richard
  • 1048–1097 : Fulk I, "the Great"
  • 1097–1123 : Nicolas I
  • 1123–1142 : Robert
  • 1142–1158 : Nicolas de Moreuil
  • 1158–1172 : Jean I de Bouzencourt
  • 1172–1185 : Hugues I de Pérone
  • 1185–1187 : Josse
  • 1187–1193 : Nicolas III de Rouais
  • 1193–1196 : Gérard
  • 1196–1198 : Jean II de Brustin
  • 1198–1201 : Foulques II de Fouilloy
  • 1201–1209 : Gautier II
  • 1209–1221 : Jean III de Cornillon
  • 1221–1240 : Hugues II
  • 1240–1254 : Raoul I
  • 1254–1261 : Jean IV de Fontaines
  • 1261–1269 : Pierre I de Mouret
  • 1269–1287 : Hugues III de Vers
  • 1287–1315 : Garnier de Bouraine
  • 1315–1324 : Henri I de Villers
  • 1324–1351 : Hugues IV de Vers
  • 1351–1363 : Jean V d'Arcy
  • 1363–1395 : Jean VI de Goye
  • 1395–1418 : Raoul II de Roye
  • 1418–1439 : Jean VII de Lion
  • 1439–1445 : Jean VIII de Bersée
  • 1445–1461 : Michel de Dauffiné
  • 1461–1475 : Jacques de Ranson
  • 1475–1479 : Jean IX Dansquennes
  • 1479–1483 : François I de Maillers
  • 1483–1485 : Vacance
  • 1485–1506 : Pierre II d'Ottreil
  • 1506–1522 : Guillaume III de Caurel
Commendatory abbots

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c "Monastery of Corbie". The Catholic Encyclopedia. Retrieved June 7, 2022.
  2. ^ "The Carolingian Empire: Carolingian Handwriting". Boise State. Archived from the original on June 28, 2005. Retrieved June 7, 2022.
  3. ^ "Caroline Minuscule Predates Charlemagne". Heidelberg University. January 9, 2013. Retrieved June 7, 2022.
  4. ISBN 9780814631867
    . Retrieved June 7, 2022.
  5. ^ Farmer, David (ed.) Oxford Dictionary of Saints, Oxford University Press (1997), p. 108
  6. ^ "Corbie Abbey". Australian War Memorial. Retrieved June 7, 2022.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Monastery of Corbie". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

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