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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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)...
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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...
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Louis Barbier (category Bishops of Langres)
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...
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Auxerre (category Communes of Yonne)
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...
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