Grandselve Abbey
The choir stall
Silver double seal of Joanna Plantagenet dating from 1196-99, found at Grandselve Abbey and now kept in the British Museum.
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Grandselve Abbey (French: Abbaye de Notre-Dame de Grandselve) was a Cistercian monastery in south-west France, at Bouillac, Tarn-et-Garonne. It was one of the most important Cistercian abbeys in the south of France.
Initially, in 1114, it was a Benedictine foundation set up by Gerald of Sales. It joined the Cistercian movement as a daughter house of Clairvaux Abbey in 1144 or 1145.[3][4]
The abbey was suppressed during the French Revolution.
Burials
External links
- (French) L'abbaye Cistercienne de Grandselve
- (French) List of abbots
References
- ↑ British Museum Collection
- ↑ British Museum Collection
- ↑ Abbaye de Grandselve
- ↑ Constance H. Berman, Medieval Agriculture, the Southern French Countryside, and the Early Cistercians (1986), p. 6.
Coordinates: 43°51′22″N 1°08′17″E / 43.856°N 1.138°E
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