List of abbots of Saint-Pierre de la Couture Abbey

A list of abbots and commendatory abbots of Saint-Pierre de la Couture Abbey in Le Mans, France, drawn from the Gallia Christiana.

Abbots

  1. Gausbert, ... - † 15 October 1005 at Bourgueil, also abbot of Saint-Julien de Tours, Maillezais, Bourgueil (990) and Marmoutier (1001).
  2. Ingelbaud, ...1010 – 1015...
  3. Evrard, ...
  4. Ascelin, ...1050...
  5. Renaud I, ...1072 – 1074...
  6. Johel, ...
  7. Renaud II, ...1080...
  8. Johel, ...1094 - † June 1097.
  9. Eudes de Buris, ...1111 – 1112...
  10. Renaud III, ...1121...
  11. Guillaume I, ... – 1133.
  12. Foulques, 1133...
  13. Ursion, ...1143 – 1158...
  14. Geoffroy I, ...1164 – 1167...
  15. Laurent, ...1170 – 1171...
  16. André, ...1175...
  17. Richard, ...1184... , initially prior
  18. Thomas, ...
  19. Robert, ... 1195 - 1205.
  20. Geoffroi Bérillaut, ... - † 6 August 1210, murdered by lord Hamelin de la Faigne.
  21. Guérin, ... 1211 - 1218.
  22. Jean I, 1218 – 1219...
  23. Pierre I de Brissent, ...1220 – 1225...
  24. Hamelin, ...1229 – 1248 ...
  25. Jacques I, ...1261 - 1267...
  26. Robert II, ...1270...
  27. Jacques II, ...1282 – 1292...
  28. Gervais, ...1296 - † 5 October 1311.
  29. Hugues Gaudin, 7 November 1311 - † 15 August 1324.
  30. Jean II du Coudray, 27 August 1324 – † 12 October 1343, initially prior of Loue.
  31. Geoffroy de Coëtmohan, August 1343 – nominated as bishop of Quimper (1352), bishop of Dol (1373), died 30 November 1380.
  32. Jean III, 1352 – 1359...
  33. Mathieu de Juillé, 1362 – 1374...
  34. Pascal Huguenot, ... 1386 - † 3 October 1399, doctor in law, formerly abbot of Lonlay (1370).
  35. Guillaume Patri, octobre 1399 - † 15 September 1409, formerly prior of Solesmes from 1362.
  36. Guy de Baïf, 1409 – elected abbot of Saint Aubin d'Angers in 1412, where he died 6 November 1442.
  37. Jean IV Chevalier, ...1417... , bachelor in decrees.
  38. Alain Le Doyen, 1420 – resigned 1438, died 9 February 1439
  39. Gérard de Lorière, 1439 - † 19 June 1461.
  40. Guillaume II Le Monnier, 1461 – † 9 December 1465.
  41. Jean V de Tucé, 1465 - 1485, found himself in conflict with a commendatory abbot Guillaume de Malestroit, who gave up his post in return for a pension
  42. Mathieu de la Motte, 1486 – resigned 1492, formerly prior of Solesmes.
  43. Guillaume III Herbelin, 1492 - † 1 June 1496, formerly cloistral prior (1483).
  44. Michel Bureau, 1496 - † 6 June 1518, doctor in theology, took his vows in Notre-Dame in 1480
  45. Jean Bougler, 1518, prior of Solesmes from 1505 until his death on 11 April 1556, aged 75

Commendatory abbots

46. Jean Calluau ou Colluant, 1518 - † 29 June 1522, canon o f Saintes, then of Angoulême, also abbot of La Couronne (1515), and bishop of Senlis (1517-1522).

46. Martin Fournier de Beaume, ...1524 - † 2 July 1527, archbishop of Tours from 1521 until his death.

48. Adam Fumée, ...1530 – resigned in 1546 and converted to Protestantism.

49. Nicolas Fumée, 1546 – resigned in 1575 due to conflict with the squire of Beauvais, nephew of Adam Fumée, formerly canon of Paris, master of the king's chapel (1587), also abbot of Beaulieu-lès-Loches (1584), died at Chartres 3 March 1593.

50. Charles I de Bourbon, cardinal of Vendôme, 1575 – resigned in 1580, son of Charles de Bourbon and Françoise d’Alençon, also bishop of Nevers, bishop of Saintes, then archbishop of Rouen and bishop of Beauvais, also abbot of Jumièges, Saint-Wandrille, Saint-Germain-des-Près, Corbie, Vendôme, Saint-Lucien, S.Michel-en-l’Herm, La Clarté-Dieu, Beaulieu-lès-Le-Mans, les Châtelliers, S.Etienne de Dijon, Montebourg, etc… , uncle of Henry IV of France and proclaimed king as Charles X by the League after Henry III's death, died a prisoner in the château de Fontenay-le-Comte on 9 May 1590.

51. Charles II de Bourbon, second cardinal of Vendôme, 1580 – † 30 Kuly 1594, nephew of Charles I, archbishop of Rouen (1582), made cardinal by Gregory XIII on 2 December 1583, also abbot of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, S.Lucien de Beauvais, Bourgueil, Jumièges, Corbie…

52. Michel Dionneau, 1594 – resigned in 1602, priest from Le Mans.

53. Jean ou Michel Legay, November 1602 – 1604, clerk from Paris, conseiller du Roi.

54. Léonor d’Estampes de Valençay, 27 July 1605 - ... , bishop of Chartres (3 June 1620), then archbishop of Reims (16 December 1641), also abbot of S.Martin de Pontoise, Bourgueil (1605-44), Beaulieu-lès-Loches, l’Epine, Vaas, Champagne, L’Epau, la Cour-Dieu et La Pelice, died in Paris, 8 April 1651, aged 62.

55. Balthazar Poitevin, 1620 – † 1632, also 'abbé confidentiaire' (for the comte de Soissons) de Jumièges, S. Oüen de Rouen and S.Michel-en-l’Herm.

56. Jean-Baptiste de Croisilles, 1632 – deposed in 1637 for marrying in secret, conseiller du Roi, also 'abbé confidentiaire' of S.Ouën de Rouen (1632-39), Jumièges (1632-38) and S.Michel-en-L’Herm (1636-37).

57. Guillaume de Montagne, 1638 – 1640.

58. Nicolas de Conty-Gramont, ..., grandson of the prince de Condé killed at Jarnac, also abbot of Bassac (1629) despite being a Calvinist, died 1648.

59. Henri-Louis Chasteigner de la Roche-Posay, ...1644 - died of apoplexy aged 74 at Dissay on 30 July 1651, bishop of Poitiers (1611), knight of the Order of the Holy Spirit, also abbot of S.Cyran (1616-20), S.Cyprien de Poitiers and Nanteuil-en-Vallée (ca 1595).

60. Eugène-Maurice of Savoy, 2 October 1651 – resigned 1657 to marry Olympe Mancini, niece of cardinal Mazarin.

61. Louis-Henri de Bourbon, chevalier de Soissons, ...1669 - 1683... , died 1703 aged 63

62. Philippe de Savoie, …, also abbot of Le Gard, S.Médard de Soissons and Corbie (ca 1669), died 5 October 1693.

63. Louis Bouton de Chamilly, December 1694 - † 1705.

64. François de Caillebot de la Salle, 1705 - ... , doctor of theology, bishop of Tournai (1690-1705), also abbot of Plaimpied (1680) and Rebais (1672), where he died 21 December 1736 aged 83.

65. Martin-Maurice de Lossendière, ... – 1728, then abbot of Saint-Maur-sur-Loire until 1754 (by exchange with Charles-Louis de Froullay de Tessé).

66. Charles-Louis de Froullay de Tessé, 26 November 1728 - † 31 January 1767, Le Mans, aged 80, canon-count of Lyon (1708), bishop of Le Mans (17 October 1723), king's almoner, formerly abbot of Saint-Maur-sur-Loire (1721).

67. Bernardin-François de Fouquet, 1767 - † 20 April 1785, in his hôtel on rue du Bac, Paris, aged 80, distant cousin of Nicolas Fouquet, doctor in theology from the Sorbonne (1732), vicar general of the diocese of Noyon, general agent of the French clergy for the province of Toulouse (1735), archbishop of Embrun (17 September 1740-dismissed 17 April 1767), formerly abbot of Caunes-Minervois.

68. Louis-Sylvestre de La Chatre, 1785 – 1790, initially a lieutenant in the carabiniers before taking holy orders in 1774, vicar general of the diocese of Nevers (1786), almoner in ordinary to Louis XVIII of France (1814), bishop of Beauvais (1817-22), canon of Saint-Denis (1822), died aged 75 in Paris on 5 February 1829.

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