The Abbey of Île Barbe was an

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built very early in the Christian era, on

Île Barbe The Île Barbe is an island situated in the middle of the Saône, in the 9th arrondissement de Lyon, the quartier Saint-Rambert-l'Île-Barbe (a former-commune annexed in 1963). Its name comes from the Latin ''insula barbara'', "Barbarians' Islan ...

, outside of

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. The

abbey An abbey is a type of monastery used by members of a religious order under the governance of an abbot or abbess. Abbeys provide a complex of buildings and land for religious activities, work, and housing of Christian monks and nuns. The con ...

was founded on the island in the 5th century and was the first monastic establishment in the Lyon region and one of the oldest in

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endowed it with a beautiful

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. The monastery, was however looted several times (in 676, and in 725 by the

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s and in 937 by Hongrois). The abbey adopted the

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in the 9th century and gradually gained some wealth. In 816,

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granted the monastery the right ''at any time of three ships on the Saone, the Rhone and the Doubs péages free of taxes''; a decree of immunity and protection to monastère which was confirmed by

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in 614.

Vue de l’Ile Barbe prise de la rive gauche de la Saône près de Lyon

In the early 16th century, the abbey came under the commendatory of the family of Albon. In 1549,

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it is secularized and the monks became canons (collegiate). In 1562, she was devastated and burned by the

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troops of Baron Adrets. The chapter of canons was finally removed in 1741, and installs a facility for elderly or infirm priests, which in turn is removed in 1783. During the

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, at which point everything was sold and dispersed.

List of Abbots

*4??-??? : Saint

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Régis Ladous and André Pelletier, '' Archevêques de Lyon'' (Éditions lyonnaises d'art et d'histoire ,

2012) p77. *1488-1500 : Henri de Seylac *1500 : Philibert Rosset "Moine" *1507 : Guyllaume de Villeneufve "Moine" *1500-1515 : Antoine III d'Albon de Saint-André *1500 : Jacques de Sassenage "Religieux" *1505 : Guillaume de Semur "Religieux & Chamarier" *1515-1525 : Antoine IV d'Albon de Saint-Forgeul *1525-1562 : Antoine V d'Albon de Saint-Forgeul *1550 : Claude Sautreau "Moine & Chantre" *1551 : Fleury de Salemard "Religieux Cloistrier" *1551 : Louis Vallier "Moine" *1551 : Antoine de Vauselles "Moine" *1562-1599 : Pierre V d'Espignac *1599-1609 : Jean III de Châtillon *1606-1613 : Claude II de Nérestang *1616-1620 : Antoine VI de Nérestang *1620-1693 :

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*1630-1660 : Claude Le Laboureur, prévôt du chapitre *1693-1741 : Antoine VII de Thélis de Saint-Cyr de Valorges

References

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