The Royal Abbey of Our Lady of Fontevraud or Fontevrault (in French: abbaye de Fontevraud) was a monastery in the village of Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, near...

an earlier monastery. The abbey was dissolved in 1177 by Henry II, who founded in its place a house of the Order of Fontevraud, known as Amesbury Priory...

(where he died), and the rest of his body at the feet of his father at Fontevraud Abbey in Anjou. In 2012, scientists analysed the remains of Richard's heart...

attempting to poison the king. To avoid arrest, she sought refuge in Fontevraud Abbey, where she died two years later, but none of this can be confirmed...

from the Monastery of Santa María de Sigena The royal Fontevraud Abbey Entrance at Fontevraud Abbey The former chapterhouse, now the "Spanish Chapel", at...

the Loire Anjou Touraine French regional natural park. The royal abbey of Fontevraud Saint Catherine's chapel with its lantern of the dead Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Pitié...

Arbrissel (c. 1045 – 1116) was an itinerant preacher, and founder of Fontevraud Abbey. He was born at Arbrissel (near Retiers, Brittany) and died at Orsan...

Eleanor then returned to Fontevraud where she took the veil as a nun. Eleanor died on 31 March 1204 and was entombed in Fontevraud Abbey next to her husband...

Grandmont Abbey in the Limousin, but the hot weather made transporting his body impractical and he was instead buried at the nearby Fontevraud Abbey. In the...

When she was barely two years old, Thérése was taken to the Royal Abbey of Fontevraud in the Anjou province of France. This was done because Cardinal Fleury...

at the Abbey of Saint-Étienne (French: Abbaye aux Hommes) in France. Henry I was buried at Reading Abbey. Henry II was buried at Fontevraud Abbey. Richard...

several Plantagenet monarchs of England were likewise removed from Fontevraud Abbey during the French Revolution. Napoleon Bonaparte reopened the church...

popularization of pigache footwear and founded a daughter house of Fontevraud Abbey at Hautes-Bruyeres. Bertrade is a French feminine given name related...

France, Spain, and even to Rome itself. In 1115, Robert, the founder of Fontevraud Abbey near Chinon and Saumur, France, committed the government of the whole...

of Neufchâtel Henri Jean (died 1302), Lord of Montaigu Alix, nun at Fontevraud Abbey Elisabeth (died 1275), married Count Hartmann V of Kyburg Hippolyte...

closely associated with the Fontevraud Abbey in Anjou. Henry's aunt was Abbess, Eleanor retired there to be a nun and the abbey was originally the site of...

owned by Eleanor of Brittany (d. 1342), abbess of Fontevraud Abbey, and bequeathed to the abbey on her death. It contains Gregorian chant as well as...

of Fontevraud Abbey. Frederick I becomes archbishop of Cologne, and begins the construction of the castle of Volmarstein. The Stift St. Georgen Abbey is...

King Louis XII of France in 1498. Anne became abbess of Fontevraud in 1477. This was an abbey in which both monks and nuns lived, but which was always...

accession 19 December 1154 6 July 1189 Husband's death 1 April 1204 Fontevraud Abbey Henry II Margaret of France Louis VII of France Constance of Castile...

as a nun at Fontevrault Abbey. This happened in 1128, when she was seventeen years old. She became the abbess of that abbey in 1150, and died in 1154...

capital of Aquitaine, and sent John and his sister Joan north to Fontevrault Abbey. This may have been done with the aim of steering her youngest son, with...

Robert of Arbrissel) and first grand prioress of Fontevraud Abbey, mother house of the order of Fontevraud, in the 12th century. We observe responsibilities...

castles of Laval, and the Nantes Château des Ducs de Bretagne, the Royal Fontevraud Abbey (the widest monastic ensemble in Europe), and the old city of Le Mans...

the Perche-Gouët. Sometime after William's death, Elizabeth entered Fontevraud Abbey, where her sisters Margaret and Mary, widow of Duke Odo II of Burgundy...

Aquitaine. She died on 4 September 1199, in childbirth as a veiled nun at Fontevraud Abbey. Joan and Raymond VI had three children: Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse...

1704) was a French nun from the House of Rochechouart. The abbess of Fontevraud Abbey, she was an influential figure in the 17th century French intellectual...

modern historians believe he was murdered by John. The annals of Margam Abbey suggest that "John had captured Arthur and kept him alive in prison for...

by France. Raymond VII was buried beside his mother Joan in Fontevrault Abbey. Wolff & Hazard 1975, p. 291. Smith 2010, p. 61. Vincent 2018, p. 82. Vincent...

Champagné (1060 – 1 December 1114) was the founder and first Abbess of Fontevraud Abbey. Hersende was born in Anjou to a noble French family in or after 1060...