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...

Canada Saint-Père, Ille-et-Vilaine, France Saint-Père, Nièvre, France Saint-Père, Yonne, France The Abbey of Saint-Père-en-Vallée a Benedictine abbey, originally...

the majority were taken out of the church and burned. Arfast then retired as a monk to the abbey of Saint-Père-en-Vallée, Chartres, to which he donated...

bibliophile and book collector. He was also abbot in commendam of the Abbey of Saint-Père-en-Vallée. Catholic Church in France Bishop Philippe Hurault de Cheverny...

Calvinists during the French Wars of Religion. The Abbey of Saint-Père-en-Vallée just outside the medieval walls of Chartres had been founded by Queen...

benefits of its natural defence and turned it into a prison. The abbey was used regularly as a prison during the Ancien Régime. Mont-Saint-Michel and...

Saint-Pé-de-Générès), monks, Diocese of Tarbes (Saint-Pé-de-Bigorre, Hautes-Pyrénées) Abbey of Saint-Père-en-Vallée (Abbaye de Saint-Père-en-Vallée)...

Count of Blois (Thibaut II; c. 983 – 11 July 1004) was the eldest son and heir of Odo I, Count of Blois, and Bertha of Burgundy. The stepson of Robert...

queen, and received the revenue of rich abbeys, such at Saint-Père-en-Vallée. In March 1655 he was named bishop of Langres, but he spent his time at court...

church of St. Pierre en Vallée (17th–18th centuries), established over a 6th-century abbey. In late Gothic style, it has a tower similar to that of the cathedral...