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    Villeneuve Abbey, dedicated to Our Lady, was a Cistercian monastery at the present-day Les Sorinières, near Nantes in Pays de la Loire (formerly in Brittany)...
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    Constance at Villeneuve Abbey, now in the commune of Les Sorinières, outside of Nantes. 'Situated at Nantes south gate, Abbey de Villeneuve' was 'founded...
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  • Constance died, age 40, on 5 September 1201 at Nantes. She was buried at Villeneuve Abbey near Nantes, which she had founded earlier that year. Constance's cause...
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    Died 21 October 1221(1221-10-21) (aged 20–21) Burial 24 November 1225 Villeneuve Abbey, Nantes Spouse Peter I, Duke of Brittany ​ ​ (m. 1213)​ Issue John...
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    Bonnevaux Abbey (French: Abbaye de Bonnevaux; Latin: Bonae Valles) is a former Cistercian monastery located in Lieudieu near Villeneuve-de-Marc in the...
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    Duchess of Brittany, monks were sent for the founding of her new Villeneuve Abbey, on land belonging to Buzay, located on the Ognon, a river flowing...
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  • the Académie française. From 1770 until his death, he was commendatory abbot of Villeneuve Abbey near Nantes, then in Brittany. Académie française v t e...
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    Nova (Latin for new house). In the Middle Ages, Villeneuve-Saint-Georges was a possession of the abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The addition of "Saint-Georges"...
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    formerly named Villeneuve-d'Agen. Villeneuve-sur-Lot is located 22 km northeast of the commune of Agen and straddles the river Lot. Villeneuve was founded...
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    in southern France. It can also be spelled Villeneuve-lez-Avignon. In the 6th century the Benedictine abbey of St André was founded on Mount Andaon, and...
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