Lagny Abbey (''St Peter’s Abbey, Lagny'') was a

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in the present-day commune of

Lagny-sur-Marne Lagny-sur-Marne (, literally ''Lagny on Marne'') is a commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located in the Seine-et-Marne department in Île-de-France from the centre of Paris (20 minutes away from the centre of Paris). The ...

in the department of

Seine-et-Marne Seine-et-Marne () is a department in the Île-de-France region in Northern France. Named after the rivers Seine and Marne, it is the region's largest department with an area of 5,915 square kilometres (2,284 square miles); it roughly covers its ...

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, in the eastern suburbs of

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. It was founded in 644, refounded in about 990 and after well over a millennium of existence (almost 1,150 years) was seized by the state during the French Revolution.

History

The original foundation was made about 644 by

Saint Fursey Saint Fursey (also known as Fursa, Fursy, Forseus, and Furseus: died 650) was an Irish monk who did much to establish Christianity throughout the British Isles and particularly in East Anglia. He reportedly experienced angelic visions of the a ...

, at the request of

Erchinoald Erchinoald (also ''Erkinoald'' and, in French, ''Erchenout'') succeeded Aega as the mayor of the palace of Neustria in 641 and succeeded Flaochad in Burgundy in 642 and remained such until his death in 658. Family According to Fredegar, he was ...

, then

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, who also provided land for it. The new house quickly attracted gifts from

Clovis II Clovis II (633 – 657) was King of the Franks in Neustria and Burgundy, having succeeded his father Dagobert I in 639. His brother Sigebert III had been King of Austrasia since 634. He was initially under the regency of his mother Nanth ...

, king of

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and his wife, the

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Queen Bathild (later

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), and this ensured it a certain prestige. Saintfursey

The earlier monastery was reduced to ruins by the

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in the 9th century. Herbert II and

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, had the abbey rebuilt between 990 and 1018. In 1019 the newly rebuilt church was consecrated by Leotheric,

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, and dedicated to

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and the

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. On that occasion, King

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made two gifts to the house from the treasure collected by the Emperor

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. One was considered to be a thorn from the

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of Jesus and the other a Holy Nail from his

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. Both were lost in 1567 when the Abbey was pillaged by Calvinists during the

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. The

Abbey of Saint-Père-en-Vallée The Abbey of Saint-Père-en-Vallée was a monastery just outside Chartres in France. Founded by Queen Balthild in the seventh century, it adopted the Benedictine rule in 954 and joined the Congregation of Saint-Maur in 1650. It was closed with all ...

just outside the medieval walls of

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had been founded by Queen

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in the 7th century. When in 1002 Abbot Magenard was imposed on the monks without an election by Count

Theobald II of Blois Theobald II, Count of Blois (Thibaut II; d. 1004) was the eldest son and heir of Odo I, Count of Blois, and Bertha of Burgundy. The stepson of Robert II of France, he became Count of Blois, Châteaudun, Chartres and Reims after the death of his ...

, the monks fled to Lagny Abbey, returning only after two or three years following a reconciliation. * In 1107

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visited the abbey, and in 1131

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. * Prior to his election as Abbot of

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(1115),

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had been

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or headmaster of the ecclesiastical school at Lagny Abbey. * In 1163/1164

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wrote to the abbot of Lagny requesting an annual payment of one ounce of gold, which was owed according to "a certain work among the books of the apostolic see", evidently the

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, a large-scale record of revenues of the papacy covering the years 492-1192.

Abbots

The early abbots seem to have been Irish missionaries and it is a difficult specialist task to piece together reliable details about their names, origins, and activity. It is also difficult to disentangle men with similar or identical names. An early figure who features in some accounts is Saint ''Eloquius'' (died 666), an Irish monk who may have been the successor of the founder, Saint Fursey, as Abbot. It is said that in the 10th century Saint

Forannan Forannan, fl. c. 969, was Bishop of Donoughmore. Life Forannan was born around 910 to an old noble family. His clan held the plain of Magh Feimhin, near Clonmel. He received an excellent upbringing and education, and became a Benedictine monk. Fo ...

, an Irish Bishop-Abbot who had been originally Bishop of Donoughmore, had St Eloquius’ relics taken to

Waulsort Abbey Waulsort Abbey () was a Benedictine monastery located at Waulsort, Wallonia, now in Hastière in the Namur (province), province of Namur, Belgium. The monastery was founded in 946 by Irish monks. They were invited by Eilbert de Florennes who wa ...

in modern

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where he had become abbot. Another early abbot, though apparently only for a time, was Saint Mombulus, also an Irishman, who left the abbey to evangelize in

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around

Chauny Chauny () is a Communes of France, commune in the Aisne Departments of France, department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. History There has been a settlement on the site, more or less continuously, since at least the Carolingian era. Kno ...

before dying and being buried at Condren. In the period after the Normans had launched their

conquest Conquest involves the annexation or control of another entity's territory through war or Coercion (international relations), coercion. Historically, conquests occurred frequently in the international system, and there were limited normative or ...

of England, we know of two abbots of Lagny intimately linked with the

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and their kin. One was Arnold of Champagne, Abbot of Lagny from 1066 to 1106. He was the brother of Saint

Theobald of Provins Theobald of Provins () (1033–1066) was a French hermit and saint. Biography He was born at Provins to the French nobility, his father being Arnoul, Count of Champagne.François Verdier, ''Saints de Provins et comtes de Champagne. Essai sur ...

and a relative of the

Odo II, Theobald III et Theobald IV, their common ancestor being Saint Theobald of Vienne (927-1001). In 1075 Abbot Arnold brought to the abbey on horseback from Italy important relics of his younger brother

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, who had been

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Pope Alexander II Pope Alexander II (1010/1015 – 21 April 1073), born Anselm of Baggio, was the head of the Roman Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1061 to his death in 1073. Born in Milan, Anselm was deeply involved in the Pataria reform mo ...

not long before (1073). It is from this relic that the neighbouring locality of

Saint-Thibault-des-Vignes Saint-Thibault-des-Vignes () is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. Population Inhabitants of Saint-Thibault-des-Vignes are known as ''Théobaldiens'' in French. Education There are ...

took its name in 1081, and that there developed and spread in France the

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of the Saint, who been a hermit and a pilgrim and on his deathbed had taken the vows of a

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monk. Another member of the same family was Hugh, abbot of Lagny from 1163 to 1171, the illegitimate son of

Theobald II, Count of Champagne Theobald the Great (1090–1152) was count of Blois and of Chartres as Theobald IV from 1102 and was Count of Champagne and of Brie as Theobald II from 1125. Theobald held Auxerre, Maligny, Ervy, Troyes and Châteauvillain as fiefs from O ...

(1090-1152), mentioned above, who was

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and of

as Theobald IV from 1102; and

Count of Champagne The count of Champagne was the ruler of the County of Champagne from 950 to 1316. Champagne evolved from the County of Troyes in the late eleventh century and Hugh I was the first to officially use the title count of Champagne. Count Theobal ...

and of

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as Theobald II from 1125. Hugh, having been first a knight and then a monk at

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, was appointed through the influence of his uncles

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and

Henry of Blois Henry of Blois ( c. 1096 8 August 1171), often known as Henry of Winchester, was Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey from 1126, and Bishop of Winchester from 1129 to his death. He was the son of Stephen II, Count of Blois and Adela of Normandy, a yo ...

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successively abbot of two English monasteries,

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, Holme, in

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and

Chertsey Abbey Chertsey Abbey, dedicated to St Peter, was a Benedictine monastery located at Chertsey in the English county of Surrey. It was founded in 666 AD by Saint Erkenwald who was the first abbot, and from 675 AD the Bishop of London. At the same ti ...

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. Having returned briefly as a simple monk to Tiron, he was made Abbot of Lagny (1163-1171), which housed the tomb of his father (see below) and probably of other family members. When the trial against the Templars began in England on 20 October 1309, among the judges were two papal inquisitors, one of whom was Sicard de Vaur, a canon of Narbonne and judge at Avignon, but the other inquisitor was Deodatus (Dieudonné), Abbot of Lagny.

A Miracle by Joan of Arc

L199 - Abbatiale Notre-Dame-des-Ardents et Saint-Pierre - Lagny sur Marne

Joan of Arc Joan of Arc ( ; ; – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the Coronation of the French monarch, coronation of Charles VII o ...

visited the village twice. The second time, in 1430, she is said to have raised from the dead a child who had died three days before. This episode was taken into account in the cause for her canonization. Joan herself had recounted the event in the course of the trial she underwent at Rouen on 3 March 1431: ::"The child was three days old. He was carried before the statue of Our Lady of Lagny. They told me the girls of the village were in front of the statue and that I should be so good as to go and pray God and Our Lady to give life back to the child, and I went there and prayed with the others. At the end, life reappeared in the child, who yawned three times and was baptized. Immediately afterwards he died and was buried in consecrated ground. They said there had been no sign of life in the child for three days. He was as black as my chain mail but after he had yawned his colour started to return. As for me, I was with the other young girls, kneeling, praying in front of Our Lady." When she was about to set off from Lagny for

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on 5 May 1430, it is said that Joan entrusted the abbey with six swords, of which one had been used by

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at the

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in 732, but these later disappeared.

Burials

* Herbert II of Troyes, born c. 950, died 995. *

, born 1090/1095, died 10 January 1152. The tomb, in porphyry, was at least two-tiered, some 7–8 feet long and 4 feet wide.Theodore Evergates, ''Henry the Liberal: Count of Champagne, 1127-1181'', University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, p. 30.

Abbey Church

In 1033 and especially in 1127 there was a severe outbreak among the population of Lagny of

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or "Saint Anthony's Fire", caused by a fungal infection of cereals. The people prayed to the Blessed

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for help, and from that time one of the names of the abbey church has been ''Notre-Dame des Ardents'', "Our Lady of the ''Ardents''", the latter being those afflicted by this condition. The abbey church was damaged by fires in 1134, 1157, 1176, 1184 and 1205. After the last named the abbot of the time, Jean Britel, decided a reconstruction was necessary and extensive works were undertaken. Radical works were undertaken in 1686, shortening the church and erecting a new but flimsy facade, after which the church was reconsecrated. The unsafe condition of the building in 1750 forced further works which demolished the 12th century nave and bell tower, a new bell tower being erected. The revolutionary regime passed a law that each commune was to have only one church. Lagny then had four for its 1,723 inhabitants. Its choice fell upon adopting the abbey church as the new parish church and on 12 August 1792 the other churches were closed. At this period the abbey church was briefly named after Saint Fursey (the dedication of one of the former churches) but when the regime disavowed Christianity, the church as elsewhere became for a time a

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. Further restoration and refurbishment took place in 1860. The Franco-Prussian war brought serious damage when the church was occupied by German troops and French prisoners of war and all the wood in the church was stripped for firewood. At that period the

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, happened to pass through the village and seeing the condition of the church, left a donation of 400 francs for repairs. The money was used to pay for a new organ, installed in 1874. German shellfire damaged the church again in 1944. In 1950 the church assumed the present name ''Notre Dame des Ardents-et-Saint Pierre'' to commemorate Lagny's deliverance from "Saint Anthony's Fire".

Fate of the Abbey Property

The Abbey's buildings were seized as state property during the French Revolution and in 1796 sold off. The monastery buildings became first a military hospital, and from 1842 the offices of the municipality, which they remain today. The church, known now in French as the "Abbatiale Notre-Dame-des-Ardents et Saint-Pierre", has been classed as a national monument since 1886 Eglise Notre-Dame-des-Ardents et Saint-Pierre and the rest of the monastery buildings since 1969. Abbaye Saint-Pierre (ancienne) Lagny-sur-Marne abbatiale 1.jpg, Choir of former abbey church L198 - Abbatiale Notre-Dame-des-Ardents et Saint-Pierre - Lagny sur Marne.JPG, Lady Chapel L204 - Abbatiale Notre-Dame-des-Ardents et Saint-Pierre - Lagny sur Marne.JPG, Chapel of Saint Fursey L129 - Lagny-sur-Marne - Ancien cloitre - Hotel de ville.JPG, Former abbey cloister, now municipal offices L125 - Lagny-sur-Marne - Hotel de Ville.JPG, Entrance to the municipal offices. L202 - Abbatiale Notre-Dame-des-Ardents et Saint-Pierre - Lagny sur Marne.JPG, Joan of Arc, statue outside apse