Fontainejean Abbey, otherwise Fontaine-Jean Abbey (french: Abbaye de Fontainejean or ''Fontaine-Jean''), was a

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monastery in the commune of Saint-Maurice-sur-Aveyron in the

Gâtinais Gâtinais () or Gâtine () was a province of France, containing the area around the valley of the Loing, corresponding roughly to the northeastern part of the département of Loiret, and the south of the present department of Seine-et-Marne. Unde ...

in the département of

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, France. It was founded in 1124 as a daughter house of

Pontigny Abbey Pontigny Abbey (french: Abbaye de Pontigny), the church of which in recent decades has also been the cathedral of the Mission de France, otherwise the Territorial Prelature of Pontigny (french: Cathédrale-abbatiale de Notre-Dame-de-l’Assompt ...

by Miles de Courtenay, who had previously also founded Les Écharlis Abbey. Fontainejean became the burial place of the Courtenay family. It was occupied by Protestant troops in 1562, when the church was ruined. The abbey was suppressed during 1791 in the

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. Little remains of the structures except for the north arm of the

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of the church with chapels and part of the wall of the choir, and also part of the 13th-century grange.

Sources

* Bernard Peugniez, 2001: ''Routier cistercien. Abbayes et sites. France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse'' (pp. 110–111; new expanded edition). Éditions Gaud: Moisenay * Eugène Jarossay: ''Histoire de l'abbaye de Fontaine-Jean de l'ordre de Cîteaux, 1124-1790: avec pièces justificatives et gravures'' (382 pp). Orléans: H. Herluison, 1894

External links

Cister.net: Fontaine-Jean

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