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Flines Abbey (french: Abbaye de Flines; also ''L'Honneur Notre-Dame de Flines'') was a
Cistercian nunnery in
Flines-lez-Raches
Flines-lez-Raches (, literally ''Flines near Raches'') is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.
It was once the site of Flines Abbey.
Population
Heraldry
See also
*Communes of the Nord department
The following is a list of ...
near
Douai
Douai (, , ,; pcd, Doï; nl, Dowaai; formerly spelled Douay or Doway in English) is a city in the Nord département in northern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department. Located on the river Scarpe some from Lille and from Arras, Dou ...
, in the
Nord department of France. It was founded in about 1234 by
Countess Margaret of Flanders, and served as the burial place not only of Margaret in 1278 but of Margaret's husband
William II of Dampierre
William II (1196 – 3 September 1231) was the lord of Dampierre from 1216 until his death. He was the son of Guy II, constable of Champagne, and Mathilde of Bourbon.Theodore Evergates, ''The Aristocracy in the County of Champagne, 1100-1300 ...
(body transferred to
Saint-Dizier
Saint-Dizier () is a subprefecture Of the Haute-Marne department in north-eastern France.
It has a population of 23,382 (2018 figure) and is a subprefecture of the department. Although Saint-Dizier is marginally the most populous commune in Haut ...
in 1257) and their son
Guy, Count of Flanders
Guy of Dampierre (french: Gui de Dampierre; nl, Gwijde van Dampierre) ( – 7 March 1305, Compiègne) was the Count of Flanders (1251–1305) and Marquis of Namur (1264–1305). He was a prisoner of the French when his Flemings defeated t ...
(1304), as well as of Guy's wives
Matilda of Béthune (1263) and
Isabelle of Luxembourg
Isabelle of Luxembourg (1247–1298) was a countess consort of Flanders and a marquis consort of Namur by marriage to Guy of Dampierre.
Life
She was the daughter of Henry V of Luxembourg and Margaret of Bar. Isabelle was a member of the House o ...
(1298).
[Monseigneur Hautcœur, 1874 (new edition 1909): ''Histoire de l'abbaye de Flines''. Lille: Quarré]
The abbey owned farms in
Faumont,
Nomain
Nomain () is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.
Heraldry
See also
*Communes of the Nord department
The following is a list of the 648 communes of the Nord department of the French Republic.
The communes cooperate in the ...
,
Coutiches,
Cantin,
Lambersart
Lambersart () is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.
This commune is located in the Métropole Européenne de Lille, and is a suburb of the city of Lille, bordering it on its northwest side.
Inhabitants of the town are called ...
and
Howardries (Belgium). It was destroyed in the
French Revolution
The French Revolution ( ) was a period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in coup of 18 Brumaire, November 1799. Many of its ...
; the last remains disappeared in the middle of the 19th century.
References
Further reading
*Bernadette Barrière and Marie-Elisabeth Montulet-Henneau (eds.), 2001: ''Cîteaux et les femmes. Architectures et occupation de l'espace dans les monastères féminins. Modalités d'intégration et de contrôle des femmes dans l'Ordre. Les moniales cisterciennes aujourd'hui''. Créaphis éditions: Grâne (transactions of a colloquium in 1998)
*''Cistercian Sites in Europe'', 2012: Charte Européenne des Abbayes et Sites Cisterciens, p. 62
External links
AmisdesGeants.org: Destruction de l'Abbaye de Flines
I Cistercensi: FlinesCister.net: Flines
Cistercian nunneries in France
Buildings and structures in Nord (French department)
Burial sites of the House of Dampierre
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