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History. T he Royal Abbey of Fontevraud was founded in 1101 by iconoclastic preacher and visionary, Robert d’Arbrissel. The peculiarity of the order that he created was that it was ‘mixed’ and that it included people from all social backgrounds. Fontevraud Abbey was envisaged as an ‘ideal city’, a place of worship dedicated to prayer ...
La Real Abadía de Nuestra Señora de Fontevraud, más conocida como abadía de Fontevrault, fue un monasterio ubicado en Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, cerca de Chinon, en Anjou, Francia. La creación y fundación de la abadía se debió al predicador itinerante Robert de Arbrissel en 1101, cuyo crecimiento hizo que se estableciera la nueva Orden de ...
22 de feb. de 2024 · Since 2014, the abbey has been ISO 26,000 certified. Since 2015, the abbey has an organic vegetable garden and favors the short circuit (the vegetables are consumed in the abbey's restaurant). We have not listed all of the abbey's commitments, but if you are interested in this topic you can go directly to their website here.
Fontevrault, ORDER AND Abbey of.—I. CHARACTER’ OF THE ORDER.—The monastery of Fontevrault was founded by Blessed Robert d’Arbrissel about the end of 1100 and is situated in a wooded valley on the confines of Anjou, Tours, and Poitou, about two and a half miles south of the Loire, at a short distance west of its union with the Vienne.
Amesbury had been an abbey, but on account of their evil lives the nuns were dispersed by royal orders and the monastery given to Fontevrault in 1177. The community was recruited from the highest ranks of society and in the thirteenth century numbered among its members several princesses of the royal house, among them Queen Eleanor of Provence, widow of Henry III.
THE ABBEY OF FONTEVRAULT • Location: ANJOU, NW FRANCE Click on image above for larger version of the map • Brief History : The abbey was founded in 1099 by Robert d'Arbrissel(1047-1117), who spent his early life as a preacher and had many followers.
8 de oct. de 2018 · Michael Weldon. Description: Located at Fontevraud Abbey in Anjou, the royal tombs of King Henry II, Eleanor of Aquitaine, King Richard I, and Isabelle of Angoulême lie in the western bay of the abbey church’s nave. An unusual phenomenon in northern Europe, the tombs are among the first fully-sculptural, life-sized effigies.
