Longpont Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame de Longpont) was a

Cistercian The Cistercians, () officially the Order of Cistercians ( la, (Sacer) Ordo Cisterciensis, abbreviated as OCist or SOCist), are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of Saint ...

monastery, in present-day

Longpont Longpont () is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. It is around 13 km southwest of Soissons, and around 75 km northeast of Paris. As at 2018 it has a population of 255. The former Longpont Abbey i ...

Aisne Aisne ( , ; ; pcd, Ainne) is a French department in the Hauts-de-France region of northern France. It is named after the river Aisne. In 2019, it had a population of 531,345.abbey of Clairvaux Clairvaux Abbey (, ; la, Clara Vallis) was a Cistercian monastery in Ville-sous-la-Ferté, from Bar-sur-Aube. The original building, founded in 1115 by St. Bernard, is now in ruins; the present structure dates from 1708. Clairvaux Abbey was a ...

, at the behest of

Jocelin of Soissons Jocelin of Soissons (died 24 October 1152) was a French theologian, a philosophical opponent of Peter Abelard. He became bishop of Soissons, and is known also as a composer, with two pieces in the ''Codex Calixtinus''. He was teaching at the Pari ...

. There is now a hotel on the site, located in the old Cistercian inn. The roofless abbey church can be visited, along with the better-preserved buildings around the cloister. The original buildings suffered war damage in 1918. Its monks included Petrus Cantor and John de Montmirail.Catholic Encyclopedia: Soissons
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Burials

* Raoul II, Count of Vermandois *

Eleanor, Countess of Vermandois Eleanor of Vermandois also known as Eléonore de Vermandois or Aénor de Vermandois (1148 or 1149 – 19 or 21 June 1213) was ruling countess of Vermandois in 1182-1213 and by marriage countess of Ostervant, Nevers, Auxerre, Boulogne and Bea ...

Jean de Montmirail Jean de Montmirail (or Monte-Mirabili), Baron de Montmirail, O.S.B. Cist. (1165 – 29 September 1217), was a French nobleman who became a Cistercian monk. He is venerated as a '' beatus'' in the Catholic Church. Life John was the son of André ...

References

*Pickard, Charlotte (2015) "Unequal Marriage in Medieval France: The Case of the Vermandois Heiresses" DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.4286954.v1 *Poquet, ''Monographie de l'abbaye de Longpont'' (Paris: 1869)

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