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The Maurist houses of the province of Normandy

Twenty-eight abbeys and three priories, from the Pays de Caux to the country around Chartres.

The province of Normandy gathered the Maurist houses of Normandy, together with those of the country around Chartres, the Perche and the Beauvaisis. Jumièges received the reform as early as 1616, even before the congregation was founded; Le Bec, Fécamp, Saint-Ouen of Rouen and Saint-Étienne of Caen followed in the course of the century. Each entry gives the place, the diocese under the Ancien Régime, the date the house joined the congregation and a short notice, with, where it exists, the engraved view from the Monasticon Gallicanum.

The sources do not always agree on the date of union to the congregation: the range is then given (1642-1646). “c.” marks a date that rests on a secondary source only.

The lists of priors follow dom Charvin, who drew them up from the acts of the general chapters and diets of the congregation.

The province on the map

Mas-GarnierHouses of the province of Normandy

The houses

Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Martin d’Auchy
The house today. Photo: Le Mauriste, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Martin d’Auchy

Aumale (Seine-Maritime) · diocese of Rouen · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1703-1704

According to Beaunier-Besse, a collegiate church of canons founded around the year 1000 under the patronage of Saint Martin passed to the monks of Saint-Lucien de Beauvais, then was raised to an abbey in 1120. The concordat of December 1703 united it to the Congregation of Saint-Maur, whose monks took possession on 29 January 1704 and rebuilt the buildings. In January 1791, the five monks chose to leave the house.

The Maurist priors, 1705-1788
  1. 1705 Dom Denis Rosty
  2. 1708 Contin.
  3. 1711 P. S. G.
  4. 1714 Dom Denis Rosty
  5. 1717 Contin.
  6. 1720 Contin.
  7. 1723 Contin.
  8. 1726 Dom Denis Rosty
  9. 1729 Dom René Dumesnil
  10. 1733 Contin.
  11. 1736 Dom Etienne Honoré Lemeré
  12. 1739 Dom Th. Gilles Gombault
  13. 1742 Dom Claude Levasseur
  14. 1745 Contin.
  15. 1748 P. S. G.
  16. 1751 Dom Claude Levasseur
  17. 1754 Contin.
  18. 1757 P. S. G.
  19. 1760 Dom Claude Levasseur
  20. 1763 Contin.
  21. 1766 Contin.
  22. 1769 Contin.
  23. 1772 Contin.
  24. 1775 Contin.
  25. 1778 Dom Pierre Bourlier
  26. 1781 Dom Claude Levasseur
  27. 1783 Dom Pierre Bourlier
  28. 1788 Contin.

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, Abbayes et prieurés de l’ancienne France, t. VII, Province de Rouen (AFM XVII), 1914, p. 34 · E. Semichon, Histoire de la ville d’Aumale et de ses institutions, Rouen, 1862, t. II, p. 66-72 · Besse, Introduction (AFM IV), 1906, p. 93 · POP Mérimée PA76000089, Ancienne abbaye Saint-Martin d’Auchy · E. Semichon, Histoire de la ville d’Aumale, Rouen, 1862, t. II, p. 68

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Prieuré Notre-Dame de Beaumont-en-Auge
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Prieuré Notre-Dame de Beaumont-en-Auge
The house today. Photo: Devisme.alain, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Prieuré Notre-Dame de Beaumont-en-Auge

Beaumont-en-Auge (Calvados) · diocese of Lisieux · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1663

The priory of Notre-Dame at Beaumont-en-Auge, a dependency of the abbey of Saint-Ouen in Rouen, was founded around 1060 by Robert Bertrand and his wife Suzanne, according to Beaunier-Besse. It passed to the Congregation of Saint-Maur in 1663 according to Cottineau, and the monks kept a college there, which became a royal military school under Louis XVI. Conventual life lasted until the Revolution. The church is preserved and belongs to the municipality.

The Maurist priors, 1669-1778
  1. 1669 Dom Alexis Bréard
  2. 1672 Dom Alexis Bréard
  3. 1678 Dom Alexis Bréard
  4. 1681 Dom Alexis Bréard
  5. 1684 Dom Augustin Planchon
  6. 1687 Dom Jean Le Sueur
  7. 1690 Dom Jean Ledier
  8. 1693 Dom Pierre Thibaud
  9. 1696 Dom Jacques Pronsac
  10. 1699 Dom Jérôme Chevalier
  11. 1702 Dom Jérôme Chevalier
  12. 1705 Dom Louis Pillais
  13. 1708 Dom Louis Pillais
  14. 1711 Dom Thomas Lefebvre
  15. 1714 Dom Thomas Lefebvre
  16. 1720 Dom Nicolas Planterose
  17. 1723 Dom Gabriel Papillon
  18. 1726 Dom Gabriel Papillon
  19. 1729 Dom Charles Camusat
  20. 1733 Dom Charles Camusat
  21. 1736 Dom René Dumesnil
  22. 1739 Dom César Lepin
  23. 1742 Dom César Lepin
  24. 1745 Dom Jacques Cazeaux
  25. 1748 Dom Jacques Cazeaux
  26. 1751 Dom J. Hébert De Bailleul
  27. 1754 Dom J. Hébert De Bailleul
  28. 1757 Dom Jean Pierre Le Maistre
  29. 1760 Dom Jean Pierre Le Maistre
  30. 1763 Dom Pierre. François Fresnel
  31. 1769 Dom Antoine François Roulon
  32. 1772 Dom Jean Baptiste Huet
  33. 1775 Dom Guillaume Alexandre Huet
  34. 1778 Dom Guillaume Alexandre Huet

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, Abbayes et prieurés de l’ancienne France, VII (Rouen), AFM XVII, 1914, p. 203 · Besse, I (Introduction), AFM IV, 1906, p. 93 · Lecestre (1902), p. 13 · Unicaen, thesauri, notice d’autorité « Beaumont-en-Auge, prieuré Notre-Dame » (citant Cottineau I, col. 305) · POP Mérimée PA00111074, Ancienne abbaye, Beaumont-en-Auge (église inscrite en 1975) · Beaunier-Besse, Abbayes et prieurés de l’ancienne France, t. VII, Province ecclésiastique de Rouen, 1914, p. 203 · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Notre-Dame de Bernay
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Notre-Dame de Bernay
The house today. Photo: Allie_Caulfield, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Notre-Dame de Bernay

Bernay (Eure) · diocese of Lisieux · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1628

According to Beaunier-Besse, Judith, wife of Duke Richard II, founded this abbey dedicated to Our Lady around 1015, with the help of Guillaume de Volpiano. After the Wars of Religion, Abbot Drogon Hennequin introduced the Congregation of Saint-Maur there in 1628, and the congregation rebuilt the buildings from 1686 onwards. Four monks lived there in 1790. The conventual buildings today house municipal services.

The Maurist priors, 1630-1788
  1. 1630 Dom Valentin Chevalier
  2. 1633 Dom Joseph Bongards
  3. 1636 Dom Marc Ragot
  4. 1639 Contin.
  5. 1642 Dom Joseph Taillandeau
  6. 1645 Contin.
  7. 1648 Dom Joseph Desormes
  8. 1651 Dom Fabien Buteux
  9. 1654 Dom Joseph Taillandeau
  10. 1657 Contin.
  11. 1660 Dom Fabien Buteux
  12. 1663 Dom Basile de Saint-Germain
  13. 1666 Dom Germain Friville
  14. 1669 Contin.
  15. 1672 Dom Nicolas Haudineau
  16. 1675 Contin.
  17. 1678 Dom Germain Friville
  18. 1681 Contin.
  19. 1684 Dom Nicolas Haudineau
  20. 1687 Contin.
  21. 1690 Dom Jacques Irrebert
  22. 1693 Contin.
  23. 1696 Dom Jérôme Chevalier
  24. 1699 Dom Jean Tirel
  25. 1702 Dom Mathieu Hüe
  26. 1705 Dom Adrien Le Court
  27. 1708 Dom Mathieu Hüe
  28. 1711 Contin.
  29. 1714 Dom Jacques Pronsac
  30. 1717 Dom Thomas Billouet
  31. 1720 Contin.
  32. 1723 Dom Jean Birée
  33. 1726 Contin.
  34. 1729 Dom Claude Mallet
  35. 1733 Contin.
  36. 1736 Dom Pierre Lenfant
  37. 1739 Dom Gilbert de Saint-Affrique
  38. 1742 Contin.
  39. 1745 Dom Etienne Le Picard
  40. 1748 Contin.
  41. 1751 Dom Pierre Lemaître
  42. 1754 Dom Nicolas Marchand
  43. 1757 Dom Jacques Marchand
  44. 1760 Dom Claude de Boisvallée
  45. 1763 Dom Louis Valincourt
  46. 1766 Dom Etienne Le Picard
  47. 1769 Contin.
  48. 1772 Dom Louis Valincourt
  49. 1775 Dom Etienne Le Picard
  50. 1778 Dom Jean Baptiste Mercier
  51. 1781 Dom Charles Bohant
  52. 1783 Dom Louis François Joseph Vanizac
  53. 1788 Dom Charles Vigneron

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, Abbayes et prieurés de l’ancienne France, t. VII, Province de Rouen (AFM XVII), 1914, p. 196-197 · A. Goujon, Histoire de Bernay et de son canton, 1875, p. 207-220 · Besse, Introduction (AFM IV), 1906, p. 93 · POP Mérimée PA00099330, Ancienne abbaye Notre-Dame (Bernay) · A. Goujon, Histoire de Bernay et de son canton, 1875, p. 219 · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Saint-Florentin de Bonneval
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Florentin de Bonneval
The house today. Photo: Roland45, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Florentin de Bonneval

Bonneval (Eure-et-Loir) · diocese of Chartres · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1644-1645

The abbey of Saint-Florentin de Bonneval, in the diocese of Chartres, passed to the Congregation of Saint-Maur following a concordat concluded on 3 October 1645 with Abbot Charles Le Prévost. During the Revolution it was turned into a spinning mill and its church was demolished. The conventual buildings, rebuilt by the Maurists in the 18th century, today house a psychiatric hospital.

The Maurist priors, 1651-1788
  1. 1651 Dom Servulus De La Mothe
  2. 1654 Dom Sébastien Chrestien
  3. 1657 Dom Sébastien Chrestien
  4. 1660 Dom Sébastien Du Busc
  5. 1663 Dom Sébastien Du Busc
  6. 1666 Dom Jacques Rémy
  7. 1669 Dom Aigulfe Lerouge
  8. 1672 Dom Aigulfe Lerouge
  9. 1675 Dom Edmond De Monceaux
  10. 1678 Dom Edmond De Monceaux
  11. 1681 Dom Adrien Leclerc
  12. 1684 Dom François Guillemeau
  13. 1687 Dom Augustin Planchon
  14. 1690 Dom Guillaume Saonier
  15. 1693 Dom Guillaume Saonier
  16. 1696 Dom Edmond Du Monceau
  17. 1699 Dom Edmond Du Monceau
  18. 1702 Dom Jacques Irrebert
  19. 1705 Dom Guillaume Saonier
  20. 1708 Dom Jean Elie
  21. 1711 Dom Louis Pillais
  22. 1714 Dom Charles Dujardin
  23. 1717 Dom Charles Luché
  24. 1720 Dom Guillaume Garnier
  25. 1723 Dom Guillaume Garnier
  26. 1726 Dom René Sohier
  27. 1729 Dom Gilles Vallée
  28. 1733 Dom Charles Dubosc
  29. 1736 Dom Charles Dubosc
  30. 1742 Dom Charles Dubosc
  31. 1745 Dom Jacques Viot
  32. 1748 Dom Jacques Viot
  33. 1754 Dom Jacques Viot
  34. 1757 Dom Jacques Viot
  35. 1760 Dom Martin Fontaine
  36. 1763 Dom Denis Lecamus
  37. 1766 Dom Denis Lecamus
  38. 1769 Dom Denis Lecamus
  39. 1772 Dom Charles François Verneuil
  40. 1775 Dom Charles Joseph Govert
  41. 1778 Dom Leroux Isaac Marin
  42. 1781 Dom H. Louis Dudouy
  43. 1783 Dom Jean Baptiste Morenne
  44. 1788 Dom Pierre Charles David

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, Abbayes et prieurés de l’ancienne France, t. I (1905), p. 220 · Mémoires de Dom Bernard Audebert, éd. L. Guilloreau, Archives de la France monastique XI (1911), p. 33 · Lecestre (1902), p. 13 (Bonneval, 9 religieux, province de Normandie) · POP Mérimée PA00096975 (Ancienne abbaye Saint-Florentin) · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Saint-Étienne de Caen
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Étienne de Caen
The house today. Photo: Viault, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Étienne de Caen

Caen (Calvados) · diocese of Bayeux · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1663

The abbey of Saint-Étienne de Caen, known as the Abbaye aux Hommes, belonged to the diocese of Bayeux. The Congregation of Saint-Maur was introduced there by an agreement made on 6 July 1663 with the former monks, at the initiative of the Duchess of Longueville, the abbot’s mother. The Benedictines were dispersed in 1790. The church remains, and the conventual buildings today house the town hall.

The Maurist priors, 1666-1788
  1. 1666 Dom Victor Tixier
  2. 1669 Dom Placide Chouquet
  3. 1672 Dom Placide Chouquet
  4. 1675 Dom Hugues Mathoud
  5. 1678 Dom Léonard Chastel
  6. 1681 Dom Léonard Chastel
  7. 1684 Dom Pierre De Vieillechèze
  8. 1687 Dom Michel Briand
  9. 1690 Dom Michel Briand
  10. 1693 Dom Mathieu Gilbert
  11. 1696 Dom Michel Briand
  12. 1699 Dom Pierre Thibaud
  13. 1702 Dom Pierre Thibaud
  14. 1705 Dom Pierre Chevillard
  15. 1708 Dom François Anceaume
  16. 1711 Dom Pierre Richer
  17. 1714 Dom Pierre Richer
  18. 1717 Dom Joseph Le Paulmier
  19. 1720 Dom Joseph Le Paulmier
  20. 1723 Dom Romain De La Lande
  21. 1726 Dom Romain De La Lande
  22. 1733 Dom Romain De La Lande
  23. 1736 Dom Romain De La Lande
  24. 1739 Dom Jean Pierre Le Maistre
  25. 1742 Dom Jean Pierre Le Maistre
  26. 1745 Dom Romain De La Lande
  27. 1748 Dom Romain De La Lande
  28. 1751 Dom Gilbert De Sainte-Affrique
  29. 1754 Dom Gilbert De Sainte-Affrique
  30. 1760 Dom Giltert De Sainte-Affrique
  31. 1763 Dom Giltert De Sainte-Affrique
  32. 1766 Dom Giltert De Sainte-Affrique
  33. 1769 Dom Nicolas Faverotte
  34. 1772 Dom Nicolas Faverotte
  35. 1775 Dom Nicolas Faverotte
  36. 1778 Dom Jean François Gallis De Mesnilgrand
  37. 1781 Dom François Follin
  38. 1783 Dom Jean François Gallis De Mesnilgrand
  39. 1788 Dom Jean François Gallis De Mesnilgrand

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesC. Hippeau, L’abbaye de Saint-Étienne de Caen, 1066-1790 (1855), p. 249-253 · Mémoires de Dom Bernard Audebert, éd. Guilloreau (1911), notes p. 222, 306 et 310 · Lecestre (1902), p. 13 (Saint-Étienne de Caen, 25 religieux) · POP Mérimée PA00111124 (Ancienne abbaye aux Hommes) · Mémoires de Dom Bernard Audebert, éd. L. Guilloreau, Archives de la France monastique XI, 1911, p. 222, 306, 310 · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Vigor de Cerisy
The house today. Photo: Ikmo-ned, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Vigor de Cerisy

Cerisy-la-Forêt (Manche) · diocese of Bayeux · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1715

The abbey of Saint-Vigor de Cerisy, in the diocese of Bayeux, was united to the Congregation of Saint-Maur in 1715, according to the Gallia christiana. The Romanesque church, listed as a historic monument as early as 1840, serves today as a parish church; the surviving abbey buildings belong to the municipality.

The Maurist priors, 1717-1788
  1. 1717 Dom Adrien Le Court
  2. 1720 Dom Adrien Le Court
  3. 1726 Dom Adrien Le Court
  4. 1729 Dom Adrien Le Court
  5. 1733 Dom Jacques Le Gris
  6. 1736 Dom Nicolas Mirbeau
  7. 1739 Dom François Sohier
  8. 1742 Dom Jacques Marchand
  9. 1745 Dom Jacques Marchand
  10. 1748 Dom Louis Barbe
  11. 1751 Dom Romain Leprévost
  12. 1754 Dom André Denis De Chaugy
  13. 1757 Dom Joachim De Hébert
  14. 1760 Dom Jacques Wilson
  15. 1763 Dom Jacques Benoist
  16. 1766 Dom Noël Nicolas Bourdon
  17. 1769 Dom Jean Louis Dubuisson
  18. 1772 Dom Jean Louis Dubuisson
  19. 1775 Dom Adrien Omer Vaucourt
  20. 1778 Dom Adrien Omer Vaucourt
  21. 1781 Dom Luc Pierre Jacques Dubois
  22. 1783 Dom Thomas Beautier
  23. 1785 Dom Louis François Joseph Vanizac
  24. 1788 Dom Jean César Adrien Osouf

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesGallia christiana, t. XI (1759), Ecclesia Bajocensis, notice des abbayes, col. c. 409-410 · Lecestre (1902), p. 13 (Cerisy-la-Forêt, 8 religieux, province de Normandie) · POP Mérimée PA00110359 (Ancienne abbaye, Cerisy-la-Forêt)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Saint-Père-en-Vallée de Chartres
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Père-en-Vallée de Chartres
The house today. Photo: Le Passant, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Père-en-Vallée de Chartres

Chartres (Eure-et-Loir) · diocese of Chartres · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1650

The abbey of Saint-Père-en-Vallée, at Chartres, had joined the Congregation of Saint-Denis at the beginning of the 17th century. It became affiliated with that of Saint-Maur in 1650: on 30 September, Dom Benoît Brachet installed eight choir monks there under the direction of the prior, Dom Arsène Moriceau. After the Revolution, the church became a parish church under the name of Saint-Pierre; part of the buildings is used today by the Lycée Marceau.

The Maurist priors, 1651-1788
  1. 1651 Dom Fursy Clément
  2. 1654 Dom Fursy Clément
  3. 1657 Dom Victor Tixier
  4. 1660 Dom Victor Tixier
  5. 1663 Dom Benoît Bugnie
  6. 1666 Dom Benoît Bugnie
  7. 1669 Dom Louis Trochon
  8. 1672 Dom Benoît Bugnie
  9. 1675 Dom Pierre Bertauld
  10. 1678 Dom Antoine Beaugendre
  11. 1681 Dom Arnoul De Loo
  12. 1684 Dom Arnoul De Loo
  13. 1687 Dom Edmond Du Monceau
  14. 1690 Dom Louis Pisant
  15. 1693 Dom Louis Pisant
  16. 1696 Dom Nicolas Du Moustier
  17. 1699 Dom Nicolas Du Moustier
  18. 1702 Dom Martin Fillaud
  19. 1705 Dom Claude Dupré
  20. 1708 Dom Nicolas Du Moustier
  21. 1711 Dom Charles Dujardin
  22. 1714 Dom François Obelin
  23. 1717 Dom François Obelin
  24. 1720 Dom Jean François Le Turquier
  25. 1723 Dom Louis De Venois
  26. 1726 Dom Louis De Venois
  27. 1729 Dom René Laneau
  28. 1733 Dom Thomas Lefebvre
  29. 1736 Dom Léonard Rousseau
  30. 1739 Dom Benoît Gouget
  31. 1742 Dom Pierre Lenfant
  32. 1745 Dom Louis Larivière
  33. 1748 Dom Louis Larivière
  34. 1751 Dom Josne De La Faucherie
  35. 1754 Dom Julien Lemoine
  36. 1757 Dom Julien Lemoine
  37. 1760 Dom Guillaume Crevilly
  38. 1763 Dom Etienne Louis Roblée
  39. 1766 Dom Michel De Bure
  40. 1769 Dom Michel De Bure
  41. 1772 Dom Dominique Mullet
  42. 1775 Dom Placide De Leyris
  43. 1778 Dom Jean Baptiste Huard
  44. 1781 Dom Louis Rémi Sarrazin
  45. 1783 Dom Louis Rémi Sarrazin
  46. 1788 Dom François Prosper Lebas

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, Abbayes et prieurés de l’ancienne France, t. I (1905), p. 226 · Mémoires de Dom Bernard Audebert, éd. Guilloreau (1911), p. 169-170 et notes · Lecestre (1902), p. 13 (Saint-Père à Chartres, 10 religieux) · POP Mérimée PA00096999 (Église Saint-Pierre, Chartres) · POP Mérimée PA00096991 (Ancienne abbaye de Saint-Père-en-Vallée, annexe du lycée Marceau) · Mémoires de Dom Bernard Audebert, éd. L. Guilloreau, Archives de la France monastique XI, 1911, p. 169-170, 218, 222 · Monasticon Gallicanum, source gallica.bnf.fr / BnF

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Conches
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Conches
The house today. Photo: Totorvdr59, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Conches

Conches-en-Ouche (Eure) · diocese of Évreux · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1630

The abbey of Saint-Pierre de Castillon, at Conches, in the diocese of Évreux, received the monks of the Congregation of Saint-Maur in 1630, according to the Gallia christiana. Dom Placide Simonnet governed it three times and died there in 1661. After the Revolution most of the buildings were destroyed, among them the great church. The former guesthouse, the wine press and the cellars survive today within the grounds of the hospital.

The Maurist priors, 1633-1788
  1. 1633 Dom Joseph Taillandeau
  2. 1636 Dom Placide Simonnet
  3. 1639 Dom Placide Simonnet
  4. 1642 Dom Benoît Bonté
  5. 1645 Dom Antoine Lefort
  6. 1648 Dom Placide Simonnet
  7. 1651 Dom Placide Simonnet
  8. 1654 Dom Placide Simonnet
  9. 1657 Dom Isidore Gueully
  10. 1660 Dom Placide Simonnet
  11. 1663 Dom Polycarpe Tronqué
  12. 1666 Dom L’Huillier Pierre
  13. 1669 Dom L’Huillier Pierre
  14. 1672 Dom Jacques Hébert
  15. 1675 Dom Aigulfe Le Rouge
  16. 1678 Dom Claude Carel
  17. 1681 Dom Claude Carel
  18. 1684 Dom Aigulfe Le Rouge
  19. 1687 Dom Aigulfe Le Rouge
  20. 1690 Dom Edmond Du Monceau
  21. 1693 Dom Edmond Du Monceau
  22. 1696 Dom Abraham Farin
  23. 1699 Dom François De Genetais
  24. 1702 Dom Jacques De Pronsac
  25. 1705 Dom De Ste Marie Jean Pomponius
  26. 1708 Dom De Ste Marie Jean Pomponius
  27. 1711 Dom Jean Elie
  28. 1714 Dom Louis Couet
  29. 1717 Dom Jacques De Pronsac
  30. 1720 Dom Jacques De Pronsac
  31. 1723 Dom René Laneau
  32. 1726 Dom Guillaume Gruel
  33. 1729 Dom Jacques Dupuy
  34. 1733 Dom Nicolas De Guyenne
  35. 1736 Dom Nicolas De Guyenne
  36. 1742 Dom Nicolas De Guyenne
  37. 1745 Dom Pierre Faudemer
  38. 1748 Dom Théodore Chevalier
  39. 1751 Dom Michel Blondeau
  40. 1754 Dom J. De Launay
  41. 1757 Dom Romain Le Prévost
  42. 1760 Dom J. Hébert De Bailleul
  43. 1763 Dom J. Hébert De Bailleul
  44. 1766 Dom Jacques Sauvade
  45. 1769 Dom Philippe François Vitas
  46. 1772 Dom Henri Alliot
  47. 1775 Dom Thomas Bautier
  48. 1778 Dom Placide De Leyris
  49. 1781 Dom Pierre Hommeril
  50. 1788 Dom Pierre Martin Mulot
  51. 1788 Dom Louis Valincourt

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesGallia christiana, t. XI (1759), Ecclesia Ebroicensis, col. 638-641 · Mémoires de Dom Bernard Audebert, éd. Guilloreau (1911), p. 165 et note 2 · POP Mérimée PA27000043 (Ancienne abbaye, Conches-en-Ouche) · Mémoires de Dom Bernard Audebert, éd. L. Guilloreau, Archives de la France monastique XI, 1911, p. 165, note 2 · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Notre-Dame de Coulombs
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.

Abbaye Notre-Dame de Coulombs

Coulombs (Eure-et-Loir) · diocese of Chartres · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1648

The abbey of Notre-Dame de Coulombs, in the diocese of Chartres, is attested in 930 according to Beaunier-Besse. A concordat made with Abbot Léonard Goulas introduced the Congregation of Saint-Maur there in 1648; Dom Toussaint de Hermant had his letters of provision as prior registered there on 25 December of that year. The monks were dispersed in 1790 and the buildings razed in 1817. The Romanesque portal survives.

The Maurist priors, 1651-1783
  1. 1651 Dom Simon De Lavenne
  2. 1654 Dom Servulus De La Mothe
  3. 1657 Dom Servulus De La Mothe
  4. 1660 Dom Agathange Collot
  5. 1663 Dom Jacques Rémy
  6. 1666 Dom Nicolas Haudineau
  7. 1669 Dom Nicolas Haudineau
  8. 1672 Dom Antoine Beaugendre
  9. 1675 Dom Antoine Beaugendre
  10. 1678 Dom Maur Terrien
  11. 1681 Dom Maur Terrien
  12. 1684 Dom Antoine Beaugendre
  13. 1687 Dom François Guillemeau
  14. 1690 Dom François Guillemeau
  15. 1693 Dom Philippe Rousseau
  16. 1696 Dom Philippe Rousseau
  17. 1699 Dom Guillaume Saonier
  18. 1702 Dom Guillaume Saonier
  19. 1705 Dom Philippe Rousseau
  20. 1708 Dom Guillaume Garnier
  21. 1711 Dom Guillaume Garnier
  22. 1714 Dom Jean Du Chesne
  23. 1717 Dom Jean Du Chesne
  24. 1720 Dom Jean Fourquemin
  25. 1723 Dom Jean Foulques
  26. 1726 Dom Jean Foulques
  27. 1729 Dom L’Héritier François
  28. 1733 Dom Julien Le Goust
  29. 1736 Dom Jean Lefèvre
  30. 1739 Dom Hervé Boissel
  31. 1742 Dom Etienne Nadal
  32. 1745 Dom Etienne Nadal
  33. 1748 Dom César Lepin
  34. 1751 Dom Jean Baptiste Duval
  35. 1754 Dom Jean Pierre Le Maistre
  36. 1757 Dom Louis Charlemagne Fontaine
  37. 1760 Dom M. Antoine Joseph Geoffroy De Villeblanche
  38. 1766 Dom M. Antoine Joseph Geoffroy De Villeblanche
  39. 1769 Dom Louis Charlemagne Fontaine
  40. 1772 Dom H. Louis Dudouy
  41. 1775 Dom H. Louis Dudouy
  42. 1778 Dom Pierre Jacques Fontaine
  43. 1781 Dom Pierre Jacques Fontaine
  44. 1783 Dom Adrien Omer Vaucouq

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesL. Merlet, Histoire de l’abbaye de N.-D. de Coulombs (1864), p. 124-175 · Beaunier-Besse, t. I (1905), p. 222 · Mémoires de Dom Bernard Audebert, éd. Guilloreau (1911), p. 69, 114-115 · Lecestre (1902), p. 13 (Coulombs, 9 religieux) · POP Mérimée PA00097084 (Ancienne abbaye Notre-Dame, Coulombs) · L. Merlet, Histoire de l’abbaye de N.-D. de Coulombs, Chartres, 1864, p. 124, 131, 136, 154, 159, 175 · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Saint-Taurin d’Évreux
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Taurin d’Évreux
The house today. Photo: X-Javier, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Taurin d’Évreux

Évreux (Eure) · diocese of Évreux · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1642

According to Beaunier-Besse, the abbey rose over the tomb of Saint Taurin, first bishop of Évreux, probably in the 7th century; ruined by the Norman invasions, it was restored by the dukes Richard I and Richard II. The Congregation of Saint-Maur introduced its reform there in 1642. The abbey was sold in 1793. The abbey church is today a parish church.

The Maurist priors, 1642-1788
  1. 1642 Dom Damien Lherminier
  2. 1645 Contin.
  3. 1648 Dom Fabien Buteux
  4. 1651 Dom Césaire Robillard (adm.)
  5. 1654 Dom Germain Friville (adm.)
  6. 1657 Dom Germain Ferrand
  7. 1660 Dom Laurent Hunault
  8. 1663 Contin.
  9. 1666 Dom Claude Carrel
  10. 1669 Contin.
  11. 1672 Dom Charles Aubourg
  12. 1675 Dom Pierre Richer
  13. 1678 Contin.
  14. 1681 Dom Jacques Rémi
  15. 1684 Dom Pierre Lengigneur
  16. 1687 Dom Antoine Beaugendre
  17. 1690 Contin.
  18. 1693 Dom Pierre Lengigneur
  19. 1696 Dom Nicolas Asselin
  20. 1699 Dom Gabriel Pouget
  21. 1702 Contin.
  22. 1705 Dom Mathieu Hüe
  23. 1708 Dom René Laneau (adm.)
  24. 1711 Dom Louis de Venois (adm.)
  25. 1714 Contin.
  26. 1717 Dom René Laneau
  27. 1720 Contin.
  28. 1723 Dom Paulin Maille
  29. 1726 Contin.
  30. 1729 Dom Guillaume Gruel
  31. 1733 Dom Jacques Dupuy
  32. 1736 Contin.
  33. 1739 Dom Robert Herpin
  34. 1742 Contin.
  35. 1745 P. S. G.
  36. 1748 Dom Louis-Josne de la Pancherie (adm.)
  37. 1751 Dom Louis-Charles de Mésange
  38. 1754 Dom Théodore Chevalier
  39. 1757 Dom Michel de Bure
  40. 1760 Dom Jacques Marchand
  41. 1763 Contin.
  42. 1766 Dom Laurent-François Dergny
  43. 1769 Contin.
  44. 1772 Contin.
  45. 1775 Contin.
  46. 1778 Dom Louis-Hippolyte Daspres
  47. 1781 Dom Adrien-Nicolas-Joseph Toussel
  48. 1783 Dom Laurent-François Dergny
  49. 1788 Contin.

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, Abbayes et prieurés de l’ancienne France, t. VII, Province de Rouen (AFM XVII), 1914, p. 173-174 · Besse, Introduction (AFM IV), 1906, p. 93 · POP Mérimée PA00099403, Ancienne abbaye Saint-Taurin · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinité de Fécamp
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinité de Fécamp
The house today. Photo: Gordito1869, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinité de Fécamp

Fécamp (Seine-Maritime) · diocese of Rouen · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1649

The abbey of La Sainte-Trinité de Fécamp, in the diocese of Rouen, passed to the Congregation of Saint-Maur by a concordat ratified by the Parlement of Rouen on 1 December 1649. The monks of the reform, led by Dom Martial Des Forges, took possession of it on the following 31 December, with fourteen choir monks. The abbey church survives; the former conventual buildings today house the town hall.

The Maurist priors, 1651-1788
  1. 1651 Dom Marc Bastide
  2. 1654 Dom Marc Bastide
  3. 1657 Dom Albert Marchand
  4. 1660 Dom Albert Marchand
  5. 1663 Dom Placide Roussel
  6. 1666 Dom Placide Roussel
  7. 1669 Dom Benoît Bugnie
  8. 1672 Dom Albert Marchand
  9. 1675 Dom Albert Marchand
  10. 1678 Dom Benoît Coquelin
  11. 1681 Dom Benoît Coquelin
  12. 1684 Dom Jacques Rémy
  13. 1687 Dom Gabriel Dudan
  14. 1690 Dom Innocent Bonnefoy
  15. 1693 Dom Innocent Bonnefoy
  16. 1696 Dom Martin Filland
  17. 1699 Dom Martin Filland
  18. 1702 Dom François Duvivier
  19. 1705 Dom François Duvivier
  20. 1708 Dom Mathieu Gilbert
  21. 1711 Dom Etienne Badier
  22. 1714 Dom Pierre Thibaut
  23. 1717 Dom Pierre Thibaut
  24. 1720 Dom Pierre Cordier
  25. 1723 Dom Pierre Thibaut
  26. 1726 Dom Claude Dupré
  27. 1729 Dom Pierre Thibaut
  28. 1733 Dom Pierre Thibaut
  29. 1736 Dom Pierre Malouet
  30. 1739 Dom Romain De La Lande
  31. 1742 Dom Romain De La Lande
  32. 1745 Dom Pierre Boucher
  33. 1748 Dom Jean Lefèvre
  34. 1751 Dom Hervé Boissel
  35. 1754 Dom André Couet
  36. 1757 Dom Pierre Lenfant
  37. 1760 Dom Pierre Lenfant
  38. 1763 Dom Louis De La Rivière
  39. 1766 Dom Louis De La Rivière
  40. 1769 Dom Louis Joseph Dumesnil
  41. 1772 Dom Louis Joseph Dumesnil
  42. 1775 Dom Louis Joseph Dumesnil
  43. 1778 Dom J. Alexis Lemaire
  44. 1781 Dom Jean Baptiste Huard
  45. 1783 Dom J. Alexis Lemaire
  46. 1788 Dom J. Alexis Lemaire

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesMémoires de Dom Bernard Audebert, éd. Guilloreau (1911), p. 141-146 · Histoire de l’abbaye royale de Saint-Pierre de Jumièges, éd. J. Loth, t. III, p. 90-91 (départ de Des Forges et de 14 religieux pour Fécamp) · Lecestre (1902), p. 14 (Fécamp, 27 religieux) · POP Mérimée PA00100659 (Abbaye de la Trinité) · Mémoires de Dom Bernard Audebert, éd. L. Guilloreau, Archives de la France monastique XI, 1911, p. 145-146, 165, 169 · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Notre-Dame d’Ivry
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Notre-Dame d’Ivry
The house today. Photo: Gregofhuest, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Notre-Dame d’Ivry

Ivry-la-Bataille (Eure) · diocese of Évreux · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1669

According to Beaunier-Besse, Count Roger d’Ivry founded this abbey dedicated to Our Lady around 1071, in the diocese of Évreux. Tried by the Hundred Years’ War and then by the Wars of Religion, it was restored by the Congregation of Saint-Maur, which introduced its reform there in 1669. A Romanesque portal with its statue and a neighbouring arcade remain, listed as historic monuments.

Priors on record (partial list)
  1. 1672 P. S. G.
  2. 1675 P. S. G.
  3. 1678 Dom Bernard Aubert
  4. 1681 Contin.
  5. 1684 Dom Jean Ledier
  6. 1687 Dom François de Genetais
  7. 1690 Contin.
  8. 1693 P. S. G.
  9. 1696 Dom François des Genetais
  10. 1699 Dom Jacques de Pronsac
  11. 1702 Dom Pierre Aubin
  12. 1705 Contin.
  13. 1708 P. S. G.
  14. 1711 Dom Pierre Aubin
  15. 1714 Dom Louis Pillais
  16. 1717 Dom Nicolas Planterose
  17. 1720 Dom Guillaume Gruel
  18. 1723 Dom Jacques Le Gris
  19. 1726 Contin.
  20. 1729 P. S. G.
  21. 1733 Dom Michel Yolagek
  22. 1739 Dom Jean Gestin (adm.)
  23. 1742 Dom Pierre Faudemer
  24. 1745 Dom Michel Blondeau
  25. 1748 Contin.
  26. 1751 Dom Théodore Chevalier
  27. 1754 Dom Ambroise Fleury
  28. 1757 Contin.
  29. 1760 Dom Romain Le Prévost
  30. 1763 Dom Ambroise Fleury
  31. 1775 Dom Ambroise Fleury
  32. 1778 Dom Jacques Wilson
  33. 1781 Contin.
  34. 1783 Dom Jean Bapt. Mercier
  35. 1788 Dom Al. Théodore de Beaussart

Partial list: the year is that of appointment or, failing that, the year in which the source mentions the prior in office. P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, Abbayes et prieurés de l’ancienne France, t. VII, Province de Rouen (Archives de la France monastique XVII), 1914, p. 177 · Besse, Abbayes et prieurés, Introduction (AFM IV), 1906, p. 92-93 (liste de la province de Normandie) · POP Mérimée PA00099459, Ancienne abbaye (Ivry-la-Bataille) · Pierre Bauduin, La première Normandie (Xe-XIe siècles). Sur les frontières de la haute Normandie : identité et construction d’une principauté, 2e éd., Caen, Presses universitaires de Caen, 2006, 481 p. · Théodose Bonnin (éd.), Opuscules et mélanges historiques sur la ville d’Évreux et le département de l’Eure, Évreux, J. Ancelle, 1845, VIII-220 p. (numérisé par la BnF) · Monique Bugner, Les abbayes normandes aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, Rouen, Amis des monuments rouennais (Connaître Rouen, 5), [1987], 24 p. · Pierre Le Brasseur, Histoire civile et ecclésiastique du comté d’Évreux, Paris, François Barois, 1722, in-4° · François-Joseph Mauduit, Histoire d’Ivry-la-Bataille et de l’abbaye de Notre-Dame d’Ivry, Évreux, C. Hérissey, 1899, XIII-588 p. · Lucien Musset, Normandie romane, t. 2 : La Haute-Normandie, La Pierre-qui-Vire, Zodiaque (La Nuit des temps, 41), 1974, 317 p. · Monasticon Gallicanum, source gallica.bnf.fr / BnF

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Jumièges
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Jumièges
The house today. Photo: Franz Golhen, public domain, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Jumièges

Jumièges (Seine-Maritime) · diocese of Rouen · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1616-1618

At the request of its prior, Dom Adrien Langlois, the abbey of Saint-Pierre de Jumièges, in the diocese of Rouen, received the reform of Saint-Vanne at the end of 1616; in 1618 it entered the new congregation that became the Congregation of Saint-Maur. Declared national property, it was sold in 1795, then largely demolished after 1802. Its ruins today belong to the department of Seine-Maritime.

The Maurist priors, 1618-1788
  1. 1618 Dom Adrien Langlois
  2. 1620 Dom Adrien Langlois
  3. 1621 Dom Adrien Langlois
  4. 1622 Dom Adrien Langlois
  5. 1623 Dom Adrien Langlois
  6. 1624 Dom Adrien Langlois
  7. 1625 Dom Adrien Langlois
  8. 1626 Dom Adrien Langlois
  9. 1627 Dom Colomban Régnier
  10. 1628 Dom Colomban Régnier
  11. 1630 Dom Colomban Régnier
  12. 1633 Dom Guillaume Gérard
  13. 1636 Dom Colomban Régnier
  14. 1639 Dom Grégoire De Verthamond
  15. 1642 Dom Maur Dupont
  16. 1645 Dom Anselme Des Rousseaux
  17. 1648 Dom Martial Desforges
  18. 1651 Dom Jean Baptiste De Boulogne
  19. 1654 Dom Geoffroy Mommole
  20. 1657 Dom Geoffroy Mommole
  21. 1660 Dom Vincent Marsolles
  22. 1663 Dom Vincent Marsolles
  23. 1666 Dom François Villemonteys
  24. 1669 Dom Silvestre Morel
  25. 1672 Dom Silvestre Morel
  26. 1675 Dom Marc Rivart
  27. 1678 Dom Pierre De Vieillechèze
  28. 1681 Dom Pierre De Vieillechèze
  29. 1684 Dom Robert De Faucil
  30. 1687 Dom Robert De Faucil
  31. 1690 Dom Martin Filland
  32. 1693 Dom François Douay
  33. 1696 Dom François Duvivier
  34. 1699 Dom Adéodat Buisson
  35. 1702 Dom Adéodat Buisson
  36. 1705 Dom François Lhéritier
  37. 1708 Dom François Lhéritier
  38. 1711 Dom Nicostrate Bara
  39. 1714 Dom Nicostrate Bara
  40. 1717 Dom Jean Bourdet
  41. 1720 Dom François Lhéritier
  42. 1723 Dom Charles Dujardin
  43. 1726 Dom Thomas Billouet
  44. 1729 Dom Jean Birée
  45. 1733 Dom Jean Foulques
  46. 1736 Dom Jean Pierre Le Maistre
  47. 1739 Dom Jean Lefèvre
  48. 1742 Dom Jean Lefèvre
  49. 1745 Dom Timothée Vérel
  50. 1748 Dom Pierre Faudemer
  51. 1751 Dom Louis Charlemagne Fontaine
  52. 1754 Dom Louis Charlemagne Fontaine
  53. 1757 Dom Augustin Leclerc
  54. 1760 Dom Louis Charlemagne Fontaine
  55. 1763 Dom Louis Charlemagne Fontaine
  56. 1766 Dom Louis Charlemagne Fontaine
  57. 1769 Dom Jean Baptiste Huard
  58. 1772 Dom Jean Baptiste Huard
  59. 1775 Dom J. Alexis Lemaire
  60. 1778 Dom Pierre Marye
  61. 1781 Dom Louis Hippolyte Daspres
  62. 1783 Dom Pierre Armand Bride
  63. 1788 Dom Pierre Armand Bride

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesHistoire de l’abbaye royale de Saint-Pierre de Jumièges par un religieux bénédictin de la congrégation de Saint-Maur, éd. J. Loth, t. III (Rouen, Société de l’histoire de Normandie), p. 16-28, 258-268 · Mémoires de Dom Bernard Audebert, éd. Guilloreau (1911), notes sur Verthamont, Harel, Des Rousseaux, Des Forges · Lecestre (1902), p. 14 (Jumièges, 15 religieux) · POP Mérimée PA00100726 (Ancienne abbaye, Jumièges) · Histoire de l’abbaye royale de Saint-Pierre de Jumièges, éd. J. Loth, t. III, Rouen, Société de l’histoire de Normandie, 1882-1885 · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Notre-Dame de Lyre
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.

Abbaye Notre-Dame de Lyre

La Vieille-Lyre (Eure) · diocese of Évreux · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1646-1647

According to Beaunier-Besse, Guillaume, son of Osbern, seneschal of Normandy, and his wife founded this abbey dedicated to Our Lady around 1059, in the diocese of Évreux; it was at first placed under the authority of Saint-Évroult. The Congregation of Saint-Maur incorporated it in 1647. Only ruins remained of it at the beginning of the 20th century.

The Maurist priors, 1648-1788
  1. 1648 Dom Hugues Le Clerc
  2. 1651 Dom Germain Ferrand
  3. 1654 Dom Marc Rivart
  4. 1657 Contin.
  5. 1660 Dom Sébastien Chrestien
  6. 1663 Contin.
  7. 1666 Dom Claude Hémin
  8. 1669 Contin.
  9. 1672 Dom Joseph Aubrée (adm.)
  10. 1675 Dom Pierre Danet
  11. 1678 Dom Guillaume Camuset
  12. 1681 Contin.
  13. 1684 Dom Martin Filland
  14. 1687 Dom Augustin Collet
  15. 1690 Contin.
  16. 1693 Dom Jacques Haudard
  17. 1696 Contin.
  18. 1699 Dom François L’Héritier
  19. 1702 Contin.
  20. 1705 Dom Claude Hémin
  21. 1708 Contin.
  22. 1711 Dom Nicolas Le Poitevin
  23. 1714 Dom Mathieu Hüe
  24. 1717 Contin.
  25. 1720 Dom Pierre Eudes
  26. 1723 Contin.
  27. 1726 Dom Jean Pomponius de Ste Marie
  28. 1729 Dom Joseph Le Paulmier
  29. 1733 Dom Pierre Eudes
  30. 1736 Dom Jean Foulques
  31. 1739 Dom Louis Barbe
  32. 1742 Dom Hervé Boissel
  33. 1745 Dom Gilbert de Sainte-Affrique
  34. 1748 Dom Jean-Baptiste Duval
  35. 1751 Dom François Sohier
  36. 1754 Contin.
  37. 1757 Dom César Lepin
  38. 1760 Contin.
  39. 1763 Dom Jean Pierre Lemaître
  40. 1766 Dom Jean Le Fèvre
  41. 1769 Dom Romain Le Prévost
  42. 1772 Contin.
  43. 1775 Dom Charles Vigneron
  44. 1778 Dom Alexandre Jean Ruault
  45. 1781 Dom Etienne Le Picard
  46. 1783 Dom Jean Antoine Chahau
  47. 1788 Dom Marc Antoine de Courdemanche

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, Abbayes et prieurés de l’ancienne France, t. VII, Province de Rouen (AFM XVII), 1914, p. 176-177 (commune : La Vieille-Lyre, cant. Rugles) · Besse, Introduction (AFM IV), 1906, p. 93 · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Notre-Dame du Bec
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Notre-Dame du Bec
The house today. Photo: Marc Ryckaert, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Notre-Dame du Bec

Le Bec-Hellouin (Eure) · diocese of Rouen · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1626

According to Beaunier-Besse, Blessed Herluin founded this abbey dedicated to Our Lady in 1034 and moved it in 1040; Lanfranc and then Saint Anselm taught there. The Congregation of Saint-Maur took possession of the monastery in 1626 and rebuilt its buildings in the 17th and 18th centuries. After military use in the 19th century, the site has housed a Benedictine community since 1948.

The Maurist priors, 1626-1788
  1. 1626 Dom Gabriel Théroude
  2. 1627 Contin.
  3. 1628 Contin.
  4. 1630 Contin.
  5. 1633 Dom Grégoire de Verthamond
  6. 1636 Dom Ildefonse Le Vélain
  7. 1639 Dom Gabriel Théroude
  8. 1642 Dom Félix Pasquier
  9. 1645 Dom Guillaume Girard
  10. 1648 Dom Joseph Taillandeau
  11. 1651 Contin.
  12. 1654 Dom Agathange Collot
  13. 1657 Contin.
  14. 1660 Dom Robert Hardy
  15. 1663 Contin.
  16. 1666 Dom Louis Trochon
  17. 1669 Dom Placide Roussel
  18. 1672 Dom Germain Friville
  19. 1675 Dom Charles Aubourg
  20. 1678 Contin.
  21. 1681 Dom Joseph Aubrée
  22. 1684 Contin.
  23. 1687 Dom Charles Aubourg
  24. 1690 Contin.
  25. 1693 Dom Michel Briant
  26. 1696 Dom Gilles Blondeau
  27. 1699 Contin.
  28. 1702 Dom Michel Briant
  29. 1705 Dom Jacques Haudard
  30. 1708 Dom André Lefèvre
  31. 1711 Contin.
  32. 1714 Dom Jacques Haudard
  33. 1717 Dom Martain Filland
  34. 1720 Dom Jacques Haudard
  35. 1723 Dom Joseph Le Paulmier
  36. 1726 Contin.
  37. 1729 Dom J. Pomponius de Ste Marie
  38. 1733 Dom Bonaventure Aubert
  39. 1736 Dom J. Pomponius de Ste Marie
  40. 1739 Contin.
  41. 1742 P. S. G.
  42. 1745 Dom J. Pomponius de Ste Marie
  43. 1748 Contin.
  44. 1751 Dom Pierre Faudemer
  45. 1754 Dom Pierre Lenfant
  46. 1757 Dom Pierre Faudemer
  47. 1760 Dom P. François Boudier
  48. 1763 Contin.
  49. 1766 Dom Louis Roblé
  50. 1769 Dom François Follin
  51. 1772 Dom Etienne Le Picard
  52. 1775 Dom Ch. François Verneuil
  53. 1778 Dom Louis Et. Roblé
  54. 1781 Dom L. Carloman Fontaine
  55. 1783 Dom Charles Vigneron
  56. 1788 Dom Pierre Marye

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, Abbayes et prieurés de l’ancienne France, t. VII, Province de Rouen (AFM XVII), 1914, p. 44-47 · Besse, Introduction (AFM IV), 1906, p. 93 · POP Mérimée PA00099327, Ancienne abbaye Notre-Dame du Bec · Frédérique Barbut, La route des abbayes en Normandie, Rennes, Ouest-France, 1997, 125 p. (Notre-Dame du Bec-Hellouin, p. 13-19) · Abbaye Notre-Dame du Bec-Hellouin, site de la communauté · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Préaux
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.

Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Préaux

Les Préaux (Eure) · diocese of Lisieux · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1650

According to Beaunier-Besse, the abbey of Saint-Pierre existed before the Norman invasions, which ruined it. Onfroi de Vieilles restored it around 1034. It was sorely tried during the Hundred Years’ War, and the Congregation of Saint-Maur incorporated it in 1650.

The Maurist priors, 1651-1788
  1. 1651 Dom Léon Dulorens
  2. 1654 Dom Léon Dulorens
  3. 1657 Dom Léon Dulorens
  4. 1660 Dom Césaire Robillard
  5. 1663 Dom Claude Hémin
  6. 1666 Dom Guillaume Bureau
  7. 1669 Dom Guillaume Bureau
  8. 1672 Dom Vincent Humery
  9. 1675 Dom Vincent Humery
  10. 1678 Dom Pierre Bertauld
  11. 1681 Dom Pierre Bertauld
  12. 1684 Dom Jacques Irrebert
  13. 1687 Dom Jacques Irrebert
  14. 1690 Dom Jérôme Chevalier
  15. 1693 Dom Jérôme Chevalier
  16. 1696 Dom Jean Le Sueur
  17. 1699 Dom Jean Le Sueur
  18. 1702 Dom Philippe Rousseau
  19. 1705 Dom Nicolas Le Poitevin
  20. 1708 Dom Jean Birée
  21. 1711 Dom Jean Birée
  22. 1714 Dom De Ste Marie Jean Pomponius
  23. 1717 Dom Robert Quimbel
  24. 1720 Dom René Rigault
  25. 1723 Dom Paul Bunette
  26. 1726 Dom Paul Bunette
  27. 1729 Dom René Soyer
  28. 1733 Dom Jean Rousseau
  29. 1736 Dom Maurice De Hautot
  30. 1739 Dom Paul Bunette
  31. 1742 Dom Jacques Dupuy
  32. 1745 Dom Nicolas Mirbeau
  33. 1748 Dom François Sohier
  34. 1751 Dom Jacques Cazeaux
  35. 1754 Dom Michel Blondeau
  36. 1757 Dom Michel Blondeau
  37. 1760 Dom André Renard
  38. 1763 Dom André Renard
  39. 1766 Dom François Follin
  40. 1769 Dom Jacques Benoît
  41. 1772 Dom Jean Antoine Chahau
  42. 1775 Dom Jean Antoine Chahau
  43. 1778 Dom Adrien Nicolas Joseph Toussel
  44. 1781 Dom Olivier Dupont
  45. 1783 Dom Gilles Le Chevalier
  46. 1788 Dom Gilles Le Chevalier

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, Abbayes et prieurés de l’ancienne France, t. VII Province ecclésiastique de Rouen (AFM 17), 1914, p. 198-199 · Lecestre, Abbayes, prieurés et couvents d’hommes en France, 1902, p. 13 (Province de Normandie) · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Present-day photograph: Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinité de Lessay
The house today. Photo: Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinité de Lessay

Lessay (Manche) · diocese of Coutances · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1706

According to Beaunier-Besse, Richard Turstin Haldup, lord of La Haye-du-Puits, founded the abbey of La Sainte-Trinité around 1060 with monks who came from Le Bec. It suffered greatly in the Hundred Years’ War. The Congregation of Saint-Maur incorporated it in 1706. The Romanesque church, owned by the municipality, is today a parish church; the conventual buildings belong to private owners.

The Maurist priors, 1708-1788
  1. 1708 Dom Adrien Le Court
  2. 1711 Dom Adrien Le Court
  3. 1717 Dom Louis Pillais
  4. 1720 Dom Charles Luché
  5. 1723 Dom Charles Luché
  6. 1726 Dom Gilles Vallée
  7. 1729 Dom Nicolas De Guyenne
  8. 1733 Dom René Thomas Gouget
  9. 1736 Dom René Thomas Gouget
  10. 1739 Dom Nicolas Mirbeau
  11. 1742 Dom Nicolas Mirbeau
  12. 1745 Dom Martin Fontaine
  13. 1748 Dom Martin Fontaine
  14. 1751 Dom Guillaume Crevilly
  15. 1754 Dom Michel De Bure
  16. 1757 Dom Pierre Trosnel
  17. 1760 Dom Pierre Trosnel
  18. 1763 Dom Guillaume Crevilly
  19. 1766 Dom Pierre Trosnel
  20. 1769 Dom Jean Bourget
  21. 1772 Dom Nicolas Le Laisant
  22. 1775 Dom Nicolas Le Laisant
  23. 1781 Dom Math. Edmond Le Clerc
  24. 1783 Dom Charles Joseph Govert
  25. 1788 Dom M. Alex. Guill. Macaire Herman

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, Abbayes et prieurés de l’ancienne France, t. VII Province ecclésiastique de Rouen (AFM 17), 1914, p. 153-154 · Lecestre, Abbayes, prieurés et couvents d’hommes en France, 1902, p. 13 (Province de Normandie) · POP Mérimée PA00110438, Ancienne abbaye (Lessay)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Notre-Dame de Josaphat
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Notre-Dame de Josaphat
The house today. Photo: Le Passant, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Notre-Dame de Josaphat

Lèves (Eure-et-Loir) · diocese of Chartres · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1640

According to Beaunier-Besse, Geoffroy de Lèves, bishop of Chartres, and his brother Gosselin founded the abbey in 1117, in a small valley near the town. The English plundered it during the Hundred Years’ War, then the Calvinists sacked it in 1564. The Benedictines of Saint-Maur arrived there in 1640. The church was demolished in 1792. The site today houses a hospital establishment, where the cloister and remains of the abbey church survive.

Priors on record (partial list)
  1. 1648 Dom Sébastien Chrestien
  2. 1651 Dom Sébastien Chrestien
  3. 1654 Dom Jacques Jolly
  4. 1657 Dom Basile De Saint-Germain
  5. 1660 Dom Basile De Saint-Germain
  6. 1663 Dom Fabien Buteux
  7. 1666 Dom Fabien Buteux
  8. 1669 Dom Laurent Hunault
  9. 1672 Dom Louis Lorin
  10. 1675 Dom Adrien Le Clerc
  11. 1678 Dom Adrien Le Clerc
  12. 1681 Dom Nicolas Sacquespée
  13. 1684 Dom François De Genetais
  14. 1687 Dom Louis Pisant
  15. 1690 Dom Simon Bonnet
  16. 1693 Dom Simon Bonnet
  17. 1696 Dom Pierre Lengigneur
  18. 1699 Dom Charles Dujardin
  19. 1702 Dom Louis Pillais
  20. 1705 Dom André Guedeville
  21. 1708 Dom Charles Dujardin
  22. 1711 Dom François Obelin
  23. 1714 Dom Guillaume Garnier
  24. 1717 Dom Guillaume Garnier
  25. 1720 Dom Robert Quimbel
  26. 1723 Dom Robert Quimbel
  27. 1726 Dom Guillaume Garnier
  28. 1729 Dom Thomas Le Fèvre
  29. 1733 Dom Guillaume Gruel
  30. 1736 Dom Antoine Briois
  31. 1739 Dom Etienne Nadal
  32. 1742 Dom Jacques Viot
  33. 1745 Dom Julien Lemoine
  34. 1748 Dom Julien Lemoine
  35. 1751 Dom Julien Lemoine
  36. 1754 Dom Martin Fontaine
  37. 1757 Dom Martin Fontaine
  38. 1760 Dom Urbain François Foussart
  39. 1763 Dom Pierre Jacques Fontaine
  40. 1766 Dom Romain Le Prévost
  41. 1769 Dom Dominique Duriez
  42. 1772 Dom André Médard Doublet
  43. 1775 Dom André Médard Doublet
  44. 1778 Dom Romain Le Prévost
  45. 1781 Dom André Médard Doublet
  46. 1783 Dom André Renard
  47. 1788 Dom André Renard

Partial list: the year is that of appointment or, failing that, the year in which the source mentions the prior in office. P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, Abbayes et prieurés de l’ancienne France, t. I Province ecclésiastique de Paris (AFM 1), 1905, p. 224-225 · Lecestre, Abbayes, prieurés et couvents d’hommes en France, 1902, p. 13 (Province de Normandie) · POP Mérimée PA00097131 · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Notre-Dame de Lonlay
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Notre-Dame de Lonlay
The house today. Photo: Pascal Radigue, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Notre-Dame de Lonlay

Lonlay-l’Abbaye (Orne) · diocese of Le Mans · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1657

According to Beaunier-Besse, Guillaume Talvas, lord of Bellême, founded this abbey dedicated to Our Lady around 1020, in the diocese of Le Mans. The monks of the Congregation of Saint-Maur entered it on 2 October 1657 and rebuilt the abbot’s lodging. The monastery was suppressed in 1790 and its property sold. The church, reduced to the transept and the choir, is today a parish church.

The Maurist priors, 1660-1788
  1. 1660 Dom Philippe Bastide
  2. 1663 Dom Etienne Jostaim (adm.)
  3. 1666 Dom Louis Faveret
  4. 1669 Contin.
  5. 1672 Dom Guillaume Bureau
  6. 1675 Dom Robert Jamet (junior)
  7. 1678 Dom Vincent Humeri
  8. 1681 Contin.
  9. 1684 Dom Nicolas Dumoutier
  10. 1687 Dom Jean Ledier
  11. 1690 Dom Abraham Farin
  12. 1693 Contin.
  13. 1696 Dom Jacques Irrebert
  14. 1699 Contin.
  15. 1702 Dom Jacques Hervieux
  16. 1705 Dom Jacques Irrebert
  17. 1708 Contin.
  18. 1711 Dom Louis Fillastre
  19. 1714 Dom Jean Birée
  20. 1717 Contin.
  21. 1720 Dom Jean Rousseau
  22. 1723 Contin.
  23. 1726 Dom François Dubosc (adm.)
  24. 1729 Dom Jean Couppé
  25. 1733 Contin.
  26. 1736 Dom Jacques Legris
  27. 1739 Contin.
  28. 1742 Dom Simon Dubusc
  29. 1745 Dom Théodore Chevalier
  30. 1748 Dom Jacques de Launoy (adm.)
  31. 1751 Dom André Denis de Chaugy
  32. 1754 Dom Romain Leprévost
  33. 1757 Dom André Denis de Chaugy
  34. 1760 Dom Ambroise Fleury
  35. 1763 Dom Romain Leprévost
  36. 1766 —
  37. 1769 —
  38. 1772 —
  39. 1775 Dom Jacques Wilson
  40. 1778 Dom Henri Delaforge
  41. 1781 Dom Jean Bapt. La Bigne
  42. 1783 Dom Philibert Joseph Porrée
  43. 1788 Dom Ed. Jos. Xavier Hersecap

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, Abbayes et prieurés de l’ancienne France, t. VIII, Province de Tours (AFM XIX), p. 151 · Le Faverais, Histoire de Lonlay-l’Abbaye depuis les temps les plus anciens, Mortain, 1892, p. 103, 135, 176, 184-185, 302-303 · Besse, Introduction (AFM IV), 1906, p. 93 · POP Mérimée PA00110839, Église Notre-Dame (Lonlay-l’Abbaye) · Le Faverais, Histoire de Lonlay-l’Abbaye, Mortain, 1892, p. 103, 176, 184-185 · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Saint-Wandrille de Fontenelle
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Wandrille de Fontenelle
The house today. Photo: Kamel15, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Wandrille de Fontenelle

Rives-en-Seine (Seine-Maritime) · diocese of Rouen · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1636

According to Beaunier-Besse, Saint Wandrille founded the monastery of Fontenelle around the middle of the 7th century under the patronage of Saint Peter. Ruined by the Normans, the abbey was restored in the 11th century. The Congregation of Saint-Maur entered it in 1636 and rebuilt the conventual buildings. Sold at the Revolution, the abbey was partly destroyed; a Benedictine community has lived there again since 1931.

The Maurist priors, 1636-1788
  1. 1636 Dom Paul de Rivery
  2. 1639 Dom Philibert Cotelle
  3. 1642 Contin.
  4. 1645 Dom Aicadre Picard
  5. 1648 Contin.
  6. 1651 Dom Benoît Bonté
  7. 1654 Dom Timothée Bourgeois
  8. 1657 Dom Bernard Hamelin (adm.)
  9. 1660 Dom Bruno Vallès
  10. 1663 Dom Mathieu Jouault
  11. 1666 Dom Vincent Humery (adm.)
  12. 1669 Dom Anselme des Rousseaux
  13. 1672 Dom Laurent Hunault
  14. 1675 Dom Claude Carel
  15. 1678 Dom Marc Rivart
  16. 1681 Contin.
  17. 1684 Dom Pierre Noblet
  18. 1687 Dom Guillaume Hüe
  19. 1690 Contin.
  20. 1693 Dom Robert des Landes
  21. 1696 Dom Gabriel Pouget
  22. 1699 Dom Claude Hémin
  23. 1702 Contin.
  24. 1705 Dom Jean Baptiste Jouault
  25. 1708 Dom Joseph Le Paulmier
  26. 1711 Dom Pierre Chevillard
  27. 1714 Dom Martin Filland
  28. 1717 Dom Louis Clouet
  29. 1720 Contin.
  30. 1723 Dom François L’héritier
  31. 1726 Contin.
  32. 1729 Dom Jean Foulques
  33. 1733 Dom Louis Barbe
  34. 1736 Contin.
  35. 1739 Dom Pierre Eudes
  36. 1742 Dom Louis Barbe
  37. 1745 Dom Jean Lefèvre
  38. 1748 Dom Martin Lésec
  39. 1751 Contin.
  40. 1754 Dom Jean Baptiste Duval
  41. 1757 Dom René des Marres
  42. 1760 Contin.
  43. 1763 Dom Nicolas Faverotte
  44. 1766 Contin.
  45. 1769 Dom Noël Nicolas Bourdon
  46. 1772 Dom Philippe Nicolas Dupont
  47. 1775 Dom Louis Valincourt
  48. 1778 Contin.
  49. 1781 Dom Jean François Dapres
  50. 1783 Dom Alexandre Jean Ruault
  51. 1788 Contin.

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, Abbayes et prieurés de l’ancienne France, t. VII, Province de Rouen (AFM XVII), 1914, p. 52-55 · Besse, Introduction (AFM IV), 1906, p. 93 · POP Mérimée PA00101054, Abbaye Notre-Dame de Fontenelle · POP Inventaire IA00021418, Abbaye de bénédictins Saint-Wandrille · Abbaye Saint-Wandrille, communauté bénédictine (congrégation de Solesmes) · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Prieuré Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Nouvelle de Rouen
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.

Prieuré Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Nouvelle de Rouen

Rouen (Seine-Maritime) · diocese of Rouen · Congregation of Saint-Maur: date not established

According to Beaunier-Besse, William the Conqueror founded the priory of Notre-Dame-du-Pré, known as Bonne-Nouvelle, in 1063 and gave it to the abbey of Le Bec. The Congregation of Saint-Maur maintained a community there, in which Greek and Hebrew were taught. The buildings were still standing at the beginning of the 20th century.

The Maurist priors, 1626-1788
  1. 1626 Dom Charles De Malleville
  2. 1627 Dom Charles De Malleville
  3. 1628 Dom Charles De Malleville
  4. 1630 Dom Gabriel Théroude
  5. 1633 Dom Gabriel Théroude
  6. 1636 Dom Albert Marchand
  7. 1639 Dom Martial Des Forges
  8. 1642 Dom Martial Des Forges
  9. 1645 Dom Gérard Des Alleux
  10. 1648 Dom Colomban Le Fay
  11. 1651 Dom Colomban Le Fay
  12. 1654 Dom Nicolas Vallée
  13. 1657 Dom Nicolas Vallée
  14. 1660 Dom Gabriel Flambart
  15. 1663 Dom Philippe Cadeau
  16. 1666 Dom Claude Martin
  17. 1669 Dom Jean Baptiste Moully
  18. 1672 Dom Nicolas Vallée
  19. 1675 Dom Pierre De Vieillechèze
  20. 1678 Dom Albert Marchand
  21. 1681 Dom François Aubert
  22. 1684 Dom François Enguehard
  23. 1687 Dom Martin Filland
  24. 1690 Dom Mathieu Gilbert
  25. 1693 Dom Charles Aubourg
  26. 1696 Dom Denis De Sainte-Marthe
  27. 1699 Dom Charles Aubourg
  28. 1702 Dom Nicolas Du Moustier
  29. 1705 Dom Nicolas Du Moustier
  30. 1708 Dom Michel Briand
  31. 1711 Dom Jean Duchesne
  32. 1714 Dom François Duclerc
  33. 1717 Dom Guillaume Lévesque
  34. 1720 Dom Guillaume Lévesque
  35. 1726 Dom René Laneau
  36. 1729 Dom Romain Longer
  37. 1733 Dom Pierre Lenfant
  38. 1736 Dom Romain Longer
  39. 1739 Dom Romain Longer
  40. 1745 Dom Romain Longer
  41. 1748 Dom Romain Longer
  42. 1754 Dom Etienne Le Picard
  43. 1757 Dom Nicolas Faverotte
  44. 1760 Dom Nicolas Faverotte
  45. 1763 Dom Jean Antoine Villeroy
  46. 1766 Dom Jean Antoine Villeroy
  47. 1775 Dom Jean Antoine Villeroy
  48. 1778 Dom Etienne François Chevalier
  49. 1781 Dom De Lorme Thomas Rénier
  50. 1783 Dom Louis François Lebrun
  51. 1788 Dom François Robert Delenable

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, Abbayes et prieurés de l’ancienne France, t. VII Province ecclésiastique de Rouen (AFM 17), 1914, p. 68 · Lecestre, Abbayes, prieurés et couvents d’hommes en France, 1902, p. 14 (Province de Normandie, « Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Nouvelle, à Rouen, faubourg Saint-Sever ») · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Saint-Ouen de Rouen
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Ouen de Rouen
The house today. Photo: Bert in England, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Ouen de Rouen

Rouen (Seine-Maritime) · diocese of Rouen · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1660

According to Beaunier-Besse, the abbey was at first placed under the patronage of Saint Peter before taking the name of Saint Ouen. Its monks entered the Congregation of Saint-Maur in 1660. The dormitory was rebuilt from 1753 onwards to plans by Jean-Pierre Defrance. The municipal administration moved in there in 1800; the building is today the town hall of Rouen.

The Maurist priors, 1663-1788
  1. 1663 Dom Victor Texier
  2. 1666 Dom Albert Marchand
  3. 1669 Dom Albert Marchand
  4. 1672 Dom Robert Hardy
  5. 1675 Dom Robert Hardy
  6. 1678 Dom Jacques Rémy
  7. 1681 Dom Charles Aubourg
  8. 1684 Dom Charles Aubourg
  9. 1687 Dom Simon Bougis
  10. 1690 Dom Germain Cousin
  11. 1693 Dom Martin Fillaud
  12. 1696 Dom Charles Aubourg
  13. 1699 Dom Denis De Sainte-Marthe
  14. 1702 Dom Denis De Sainte-Marthe
  15. 1705 Dom Thomas Blampin
  16. 1708 Dom Aubin Jumeau
  17. 1711 Dom Joseph Le Paulmier
  18. 1714 Dom Joseph Le Paulmier
  19. 1717 Dom Louis Pisant
  20. 1720 Dom Louis Pisant
  21. 1723 Dom Louis Clouet
  22. 1726 Dom Jean Bourdet
  23. 1729 Dom Jean Bourdet
  24. 1733 Dom Antoine Bonnet
  25. 1736 Dom Bonaventure Aubert
  26. 1739 Dom Guillaume De Launay
  27. 1742 Dom Ambroise Arcis
  28. 1745 Dom Hervé Boissel
  29. 1748 Dom Hervé Boissel
  30. 1751 Dom Louis Larivière
  31. 1754 Dom Louis Larivière
  32. 1760 Dom Louis Larivière
  33. 1763 Dom Pierre Gabriel Moisson
  34. 1766 Dom Pierre Philippe Bourdon
  35. 1769 Dom Pierre Philippe Bourdon
  36. 1772 Dom François Daguin
  37. 1775 Dom François Follin
  38. 1778 Dom François Robert Delenable
  39. 1781 Dom François Daguin
  40. 1783 Dom Alexis Davoust
  41. 1788 Dom Alexis Davoust

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, Abbayes et prieurés de l’ancienne France, t. VII Province ecclésiastique de Rouen (AFM 17), 1914, p. 31-33 · Lecestre, Abbayes, prieurés et couvents d’hommes en France, 1902, p. 14 (Province de Normandie) · POP Mérimée PA00100851, Hôtel de ville (Rouen) · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Étienne de Fontenay
The house today. Photo: Roi.dagobert, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Étienne de Fontenay

Saint-André-sur-Orne (Calvados) · diocese of Bayeux · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1752

The abbey of Saint-Étienne de Fontenay, in the diocese of Bayeux, lies in what is now the municipality of Saint-André-sur-Orne. Its commendatory abbot, Michel-Gabriel Piédoue de Charsigné, obtained its union with the Congregation of Saint-Maur; according to the memorial of Philippe Lamare, the Maurists took possession of it in 1752, despite the opposition of the former monks; Beaunier-Besse dates this union to 1761. Part of the conventual buildings survives, in private hands.

The Maurist priors, 1754-1788
  1. 1754 Dom Louis Charles De Mésange
  2. 1757 Dom Louis Charles De Mésange
  3. 1760 Dom Michel De Bure
  4. 1763 Dom Michel De Bure
  5. 1766 Dom Pierre Jacques Fontaine
  6. 1769 Dom Thomas Régnier
  7. 1772 Dom Thomas Régnier
  8. 1775 Dom Michel De Bure
  9. 1778 Dom Michel De Bure
  10. 1781 Dom Guillaume Dabout
  11. 1783 Dom Pierre Vincent Delom
  12. 1788 Dom Jean Louis Benoist

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesMémorial de Philippe Lamare, secrétaire de Dom Gouget, bénédictin de l’abbaye de Fontenay, 1774-1788, éd. G. Vanel (1905), p. 22-25 · Lecestre (1902), p. 13 (Fontenay, comm. Saint-André-de-Fontenay, 7 religieux) · POP Mérimée PA00111655 (Ancienne abbaye Saint-Etienne-de-Fontenay) · Beaunier-Besse, Abbayes et prieurés de l’ancienne France, t. VII, Province de Rouen (AFM XVII), 1914, p. 129 (agrégation datée de 1761) · Mémorial de Philippe Lamare, éd. G. Vanel, 1905, p. 276-277 (acte de prise de possession par les bénédictins réformés, 24 septembre 1752)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Saint-Évroult d’Ouche
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Évroult d’Ouche
The house today. Photo: Jmalo, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Évroult d’Ouche

Saint-Evroult-Notre-Dame-du-Bois (Orne) · diocese of Lisieux · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1628

According to Beaunier-Besse, Saint Évroult founded the monastery in the 6th century. Ruined during the Norman invasions, it was restored in the middle of the 11th century, and the historian Orderic Vitalis lived there. The Congregation of Saint-Maur reformed the abbey in 1628. After the Revolution the buildings served as a stone quarry, and the lantern tower collapsed in 1802. Ruins remain, on private property.

The Maurist priors, 1630-1788
  1. 1630 Dom Philibert Cotelle
  2. 1633 Dom Philibert Cotelle
  3. 1636 Dom Joseph Taillandeau
  4. 1639 Dom Joseph Taillandeau
  5. 1642 Dom Marc Ragot
  6. 1645 Dom Marc Ragot
  7. 1648 Dom Pierre Victor Maréchal
  8. 1651 Dom Pierre Victor Maréchal
  9. 1654 Dom Simon De Lavenne
  10. 1657 Dom Simon De Lavenne
  11. 1660 Dom Marc Rivart
  12. 1663 Dom Jean Baptiste Godefroy
  13. 1666 Dom Sébastien Chrestien
  14. 1669 Dom Pierre De Vieillechèze
  15. 1672 Dom Pierre De Vieillechèze
  16. 1675 Dom Joseph Aubrée
  17. 1678 Dom Joseph Aubrée
  18. 1681 Dom Jean Baptiste Houssaye
  19. 1684 Dom Charles De Rostaing
  20. 1687 Dom Charles De Rostaing
  21. 1690 Dom Pierre Lengigneur
  22. 1693 Dom Guillaume Hüe
  23. 1696 Dom Jean Baptiste Jouault
  24. 1699 Dom Philippe Rousseau
  25. 1702 Dom Jean Baptiste Jouault
  26. 1705 Dom Michel Briand
  27. 1708 Dom Pierre Chevillard
  28. 1711 Dom Jacques Irrebert
  29. 1714 Dom Jacques Irrebert
  30. 1717 Dom Charles Dujardin
  31. 1720 Dom Charles Dujardin
  32. 1723 Dom Jacques De Pronsac
  33. 1726 Dom René Rigault
  34. 1729 Dom Charles Dubosc
  35. 1733 Dom Jacques Veytard
  36. 1736 Dom Pierre Vallée
  37. 1739 Dom Timothée Vérel
  38. 1742 Dom Timothée Vérel
  39. 1745 Dom Benoît Gouget
  40. 1748 Dom Augustin Legault
  41. 1751 Dom Louis Barbe
  42. 1754 Dom Louis Barbe
  43. 1757 Dom Etienne Louis Robbé
  44. 1760 Dom Jacques Cazeaux
  45. 1763 Dom François Follin
  46. 1766 Dom Jean Baptiste Morenne
  47. 1769 Dom Jean Baptiste Morenne
  48. 1772 Dom Jean Baptiste Morenne
  49. 1775 Dom Jean Baptiste Morenne
  50. 1778 Dom P. Albert Joseph Hermeton
  51. 1781 Dom René Duclos
  52. 1783 Dom Jean Baptiste Honoré Capron
  53. 1788 Dom Jean Baptiste Honoré Capron

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, Abbayes et prieurés de l’ancienne France, t. VII Province ecclésiastique de Rouen (AFM 17), 1914, p. 199-200 · Lecestre, Abbayes, prieurés et couvents d’hommes en France, 1902, p. 13 (Province de Normandie) · POP Mérimée PA00110920, Ancienne abbaye · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Saint-Germer de Flay
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Germer de Flay
The house today. Photo: François GOGLINS, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Germer de Flay

Saint-Germer-de-Fly (Oise) · diocese of Beauvais · Congregation of Saint-Maur: c. 1644

The monastery was founded by Saint Germer at the place called Flay, in the diocese of Beauvais. The abbey received the reform of Saint-Maur in the middle of the 17th century and belonged to the congregation’s province of Normandy. The abbey church and its Lady Chapel today belong to the municipality; part of the buildings houses the town hall and the school.

The Maurist priors, 1645-1788
  1. 1645 Dom Jean Baptiste De Boulogne
  2. 1648 Dom Jean Baptiste De Boulogne
  3. 1651 Dom Bruno Vallès
  4. 1654 Dom Bruno Vallès
  5. 1657 Dom Claude Hémin
  6. 1660 Dom Claude Hémin
  7. 1663 Dom Charles Aubourg
  8. 1666 Dom Charles Aubourg
  9. 1669 Dom Fabien Buteux
  10. 1672 Dom Maur. Trézain
  11. 1675 Dom Maur. Trézain
  12. 1678 Dom Arnoul De Loo
  13. 1681 Dom Edmond De Monceaux
  14. 1684 Dom Edmond De Monceaux
  15. 1687 Dom Gabriel Pouget
  16. 1690 Dom Robert De Faucil
  17. 1693 Dom Robert De Faucil
  18. 1696 Dom Simon Bonnet
  19. 1699 Dom Simon Bonnet
  20. 1702 Dom Nicolas Poitevin
  21. 1705 Dom Pierre Thiébault
  22. 1708 Dom Jacques De Pronsac
  23. 1711 Dom Jacques De Pronsac
  24. 1714 Dom Paulin Maille
  25. 1717 Dom Louis De Venois
  26. 1720 Dom Louis De Venois
  27. 1723 Dom Thomas Billouet
  28. 1726 Dom Guillaume Delaunay
  29. 1729 Dom Guillaume Delaunay
  30. 1733 Dom Paul Bunette
  31. 1736 Dom Jean Rousseau
  32. 1739 Dom Louis Coste
  33. 1742 Dom Benoît Gouget
  34. 1745 Dom Louis Barbe
  35. 1748 Dom Etienne Nadal
  36. 1751 Dom César Lepin
  37. 1754 Dom César Lepin
  38. 1757 Dom Jean Baptiste Duval
  39. 1760 Dom Jean Baptiste Duval
  40. 1763 Dom Jean Baptiste Duval
  41. 1766 Dom Charles Gabriel Cardon
  42. 1769 Dom Henri Quénouault
  43. 1772 Dom Henri Quénouault
  44. 1775 Dom Pierre Armand Bride
  45. 1778 Dom Pierre Armand Bride
  46. 1781 Dom Gabriel Esnault
  47. 1783 Dom Pierre Marie
  48. 1788 Dom Michel Enjubault

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesLecestre, Abbayes, prieurés et couvents d’hommes en France, 1902, p. 13 (Province de Normandie, « Saint-Germer-de-Flaix ou de-Fly ») · POP Mérimée PA00114860, Église et chapelle · POP Mérimée PA00114859, Ancienne abbaye · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Saint-Georges de Boscherville
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Georges de Boscherville
The house today. Photo: Pline, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Georges de Boscherville

Saint-Martin-de-Boscherville (Seine-Maritime) · diocese of Rouen · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1660

According to Beaunier-Besse, Raoul de Tancarville founded a community of canons here in the middle of the 11th century, replaced in 1114 by Benedictine monks. After the troubles of the commendam and the pillage of 1562, the Congregation of Saint-Maur settled there on 1 January 1660. Seven monks lived there in 1790. The 12th-century abbey church is today a parish church.

The Maurist priors, 1660-1788
  1. 1660 Dom Timothée Bourgeois
  2. 1663 Dom Marc Rivart
  3. 1666 Contin.
  4. 1669 Dom Vincent Humery
  5. 1672 Dom Adrien Leclerc (adm.)
  6. 1675 Dom Michel Briand
  7. 1678 Dom Victor Tixier
  8. 1681 Contin.
  9. 1684 P. S. G.
  10. 1687 Dom Victor Tixier
  11. 1690 Contin.
  12. 1693 Dom Nicolas du Moustier
  13. 1696 Dom Robert de Faucil
  14. 1699 Dom Pierre Lengigneur
  15. 1702 Contin.
  16. 1705 Dom Jean Elie
  17. 1708 Dom Thomas Lefebvre (adm.)
  18. 1711 Dom Guillaume Lévesque
  19. 1714 Contin.
  20. 1717 Dom André Lefebvre
  21. 1720 Dom Jean Du Chesne
  22. 1723 B. Charles Camusat
  23. 1726 Dom Marc Souché (adm.)
  24. 1729 Dom Paul Bunette
  25. 1733 Dom Louis Coste
  26. 1736 Contin.
  27. 1739 Dom Jean Rousseau
  28. 1742 Dom Martin Fontaine (adm.)
  29. 1745 Dom Guillaume de Crevilly
  30. 1748 Contin.
  31. 1751 Dom Etienne Le Picard
  32. 1754 Dom Isaïe Thomas Régnier
  33. 1757 Dom Guillaume de Crevilly
  34. 1760 Dom Jacques Viot
  35. 1763 Contin.
  36. 1766 Dom Louis Valincourt
  37. 1769 Dom Michel Blondeau
  38. 1772 Dom Marc Antoine de Courdemanche
  39. 1775 Dom Jean Baptiste Honoré Capron
  40. 1778 Dom Edouard Xavier Joseph Hersecap
  41. 1781 Dom Dominique Duriez
  42. 1783 Dom Edouard Xavier Joseph Hersecap
  43. 1788 Dom Philippe Nicolas Dupont

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, Abbayes et prieurés de l’ancienne France, t. VII, Province de Rouen (AFM XVII), 1914, p. 49-50 · A. Besnard, Monographie de l’église et de l’abbaye Saint-Georges de Boscherville, Paris, 1899, p. 27-31 et pièces justificatives p. 38-41, 52 · Besse, Introduction (AFM IV), 1906, p. 93 · POP Mérimée PA00101033, Ancienne abbaye Saint-Georges-de-Boscherville · A. Besnard, Monographie de l’église et de l’abbaye Saint-Georges de Boscherville, Paris, 1899, p. 30, 38-41, 52 · Abbaye Saint-Georges de Boscherville, site de l’association gestionnaire (ATAR) · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Notre-Dame de Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Notre-Dame de Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives
The house today. Photo: Laurent Hosansky (Goéland), CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Notre-Dame de Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives

Saint-Pierre-en-Auge (Calvados) · diocese of Sées · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1666

According to Beaunier-Besse, Guillaume, Count of Eu, and his wife Lesceline founded the abbey in the 11th century in honour of Our Lady. It was incorporated into the Congregation of Saint-Maur in 1666, and the conventual buildings were rebuilt from 1667 onwards. The church is today a parish church; the chapter house and part of the buildings survive.

The Maurist priors, 1669-1788
  1. 1669 Dom Antoine Beaugendre
  2. 1672 Dom Jean Ledier
  3. 1675 Dom Jean Ledier
  4. 1678 Dom Robert Jamet
  5. 1681 Dom Robert Jamet
  6. 1684 Dom Jérôme Chevalier
  7. 1687 Dom Jérôme Chevalier
  8. 1690 Dom Robert Deslandes
  9. 1693 Dom Michel Housset
  10. 1696 Dom Michel Housset
  11. 1699 Dom Joseph Le Paulmier
  12. 1702 Dom Michel Housset
  13. 1705 Dom Jacques Depronsac
  14. 1708 Dom Guillaume Lévesque
  15. 1711 Dom Pierre Eudes
  16. 1714 Dom Pierre Eudes
  17. 1717 Dom Guillaume Gruel
  18. 1720 Dom Louis Pillais
  19. 1723 Dom Louis Pillais
  20. 1726 Dom Claude Mallet
  21. 1729 Dom Jean Rousseau
  22. 1733 Dom René Sohier
  23. 1736 Dom René Sohier
  24. 1739 Dom René Dumesnil
  25. 1742 Dom Charles Renoux
  26. 1745 Dom Pierre Gabriel Moisson
  27. 1748 Dom Pierre Gabriel Moisson
  28. 1751 Dom J. De Launay
  29. 1754 Dom Guillaume De Crevilly
  30. 1757 Dom J. De Launay
  31. 1760 Dom Michel Blondeau
  32. 1763 Dom Michel Blondeau
  33. 1766 Dom Michel Blondeau
  34. 1769 Dom Ambroise Fleury
  35. 1772 Dom D’Ainay L Christ. De Valleyre
  36. 1775 Dom André Renard
  37. 1778 Dom Charles Joseph Govert
  38. 1781 Dom Benjamin Medenié
  39. 1783 Dom Pierre Albert Joseph Henneton
  40. 1788 Dom Etienne Louis François Mallet

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, Abbayes et prieurés de l’ancienne France, t. VII Province ecclésiastique de Rouen (AFM 17), 1914, p. 216-217 · Lecestre, Abbayes, prieurés et couvents d’hommes en France, 1902, p. 14 (Province de Normandie) · POP Mérimée PA00111713, Ancienne abbaye · Monasticon Gallicanum, source gallica.bnf.fr / BnF

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Prieuré Saint-Vigor-le-Grand
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Prieuré Saint-Vigor-le-Grand
The house today. Photo: Pimprenel, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Prieuré Saint-Vigor-le-Grand

Saint-Vigor-le-Grand (Calvados) · diocese of Bayeux · Congregation of Saint-Maur: c. 1658

The conventual priory of Saint-Vigor, at the gates of Bayeux, depended on the abbey of Saint-Bénigne de Dijon. Its holder, Barthélemy Robin, abbot of Sorèze, long urged the Congregation of Saint-Maur to settle there; according to the Gallia christiana, the Maurists took possession of it in 1658. The 13th-century gatehouse survives today at Saint-Vigor-le-Grand.

The Maurist priors, 1660-1788
  1. 1660 Dom Valéry Parent
  2. 1663 Dom Valéry Parent
  3. 1666 Dom Polycarpe Tronqué
  4. 1669 Dom Pierre Richer
  5. 1672 Dom Pierre Richer
  6. 1675 Dom Bonaventure Le Coq
  7. 1678 Dom Jean Ledier
  8. 1681 Dom Jean Ledier
  9. 1684 Dom Adrien Leclerc
  10. 1687 Dom Pierre Langigneur
  11. 1690 Dom Guy Bailleul
  12. 1693 Dom Pierre Poujaud
  13. 1696 Dom Pierre Thibaud
  14. 1699 Dom Michel Housset
  15. 1702 Dom Joseph Le Paulmier
  16. 1705 Dom Joseph Le Paulmier
  17. 1708 Dom Louis Pilastre
  18. 1711 Dom De Ste Marie Jean Pomponius
  19. 1714 Dom Louis Pilastre
  20. 1717 Dom De Ste Marie Jean Pomponius
  21. 1720 Dom Mathieu Hüe
  22. 1723 Dom Mathurin Larcher
  23. 1726 Dom Mathurin Larcher
  24. 1729 Dom Thomas Billouet
  25. 1733 Dom Jean Lefèvre
  26. 1736 Dom Jean Renou
  27. 1739 Dom Jean Renou
  28. 1742 Dom Pierre François Boudier
  29. 1745 Dom Pierre François Boudier
  30. 1751 Dom Pierre François Boudier
  31. 1754 Dom Jacques Vilson
  32. 1757 Dom Jacques Vilson
  33. 1760 Dom Louis Charles De Mésange
  34. 1763 Dom Jacques Wilson
  35. 1766 Dom Jacques Wilson
  36. 1769 Dom Jacques Wilson
  37. 1772 Dom Luc Pierre Jacques Dubois
  38. 1775 Dom Luc Pierre Jacques Dubois
  39. 1778 Dom François D’Albignac Louis
  40. 1781 Dom Louis Valincourt
  41. 1783 Dom Luc Pierre Jacques Dubois
  42. 1788 Dom Jacques François Travers

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesGallia christiana, t. XI (1759), Ecclesia Bajocensis, col. 406 · Mémoires de Dom Bernard Audebert, éd. L. Guilloreau, Archives de la France monastique XI (1911), p. 219-220 et 306-307 · Lecestre, Abbayes, prieurés et couvents d’hommes en France (1902), p. 13 (Saint-Vigor, 9 religieux, province de Normandie) · POP Mérimée PA00111725 (Ancien prieuré, Saint-Vigor-le-Grand) · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Saint-Martin de Sées
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Martin de Sées
The house today. Photo: Eponimm, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Martin de Sées

Sées (Orne) · diocese of Sées · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1635-1636

According to Beaunier-Besse, Roger de Montgommery and Mabile de Bellême restored or founded the abbey around 1050 with monks from Saint-Évroult. Its monks entered the Congregation of Chezal-Benoît in 1511, and the Protestants sacked it. It received the reform of Saint-Maur in 1636, and the large conventual building was erected in the following years. After the Revolution the site became a spinning mill, then the major seminary of the diocese.

The Maurist priors, 1636-1788
  1. 1636 Dom Faron De Chalus
  2. 1639 Dom Félix Pasquier
  3. 1642 Dom Michel Pirou
  4. 1645 Dom Michel Pirou
  5. 1648 Dom Benoît Coquelin
  6. 1651 Dom Benoît Coquelin
  7. 1654 Dom Pierre Victor Maréchal
  8. 1657 Dom Pierre Victor Maréchal
  9. 1660 Dom Bernard Hamelin
  10. 1663 Dom Bernard Hamelin
  11. 1666 Dom Pierre De Vieillechèze
  12. 1669 Dom François De Villemonteys
  13. 1672 Dom Jacques Rémy
  14. 1675 Dom Jacques Rémy
  15. 1678 Dom Nicolas Haudineau
  16. 1681 Dom Nicolas Haudineau
  17. 1684 Dom Michel Briand
  18. 1687 Dom Arnoul De Loo
  19. 1690 Dom François Douay
  20. 1693 Dom Nicolas Asselin
  21. 1696 Dom Guillaume Saonier
  22. 1699 Dom Michel Briand
  23. 1702 Dom Charles Dujardin
  24. 1705 Dom Charles Dujardin
  25. 1708 Dom Claude Dupré
  26. 1711 Dom Claude Dupré
  27. 1714 Dom Hervé Ménard
  28. 1717 Dom Hervé Ménard
  29. 1720 Dom De Ste Marie Jean Pomponius
  30. 1723 Dom De Ste Marie Jean Pomponius
  31. 1726 Dom Pierre Eudes
  32. 1729 Dom Pierre Eudes
  33. 1733 Dom Pierre Huet
  34. 1736 Dom Pierre Huet
  35. 1739 Dom Pierre Lenfant
  36. 1742 Dom Placide Legault
  37. 1745 Dom Placide Legault
  38. 1748 Dom Jean Baptiste De Hen
  39. 1751 Dom Jean Baptiste De Hen
  40. 1754 Dom Pierre François Boudier
  41. 1757 Dom Pierre François Boudier
  42. 1760 Dom Placide Legault
  43. 1763 Dom Placide Legault
  44. 1766 Dom Alexis Davoust
  45. 1769 Dom Alexis Davoust
  46. 1772 Dom Alexis Davoust
  47. 1775 Dom François Robert Delenable
  48. 1778 Dom Louis François Lebrun
  49. 1781 Dom Jean Baptiste Morenne
  50. 1783 Dom Jean Antoine François Villeray
  51. 1788 Dom Charles Masselin

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, Abbayes et prieurés de l’ancienne France, t. VII Province ecclésiastique de Rouen (AFM 17), 1914, p. 215-216 · Lecestre, Abbayes, prieurés et couvents d’hommes en France, 1902, p. 14 (Province de Normandie) · POP Mérimée PA00110942, Ancienne abbaye Saint-Martin · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinité de Tiron
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinité de Tiron
The house today. Photo: Thomas de Castilla, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinité de Tiron

Thiron-Gardais (Eure-et-Loir) · diocese of Chartres · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1629

According to Beaunier-Besse, Saint Bernard, formerly abbot of Saint-Cyprien de Poitiers, settled with his disciples in the wood of Tiron, on land given by Rotrou, Count of the Perche; the monastery was founded in 1109 and became the head of a congregation. The Benedictines of Saint-Maur introduced their reform there in 1629 and kept a college there. The buildings were sold at the Revolution; the church is a parish church.

The Maurist priors, 1630-1788
  1. 1630 Dom Anselme des Rousseaux
  2. 1633 Dom Faron de Chalus
  3. 1636 Dom Odilon Bataille
  4. 1639 Dom Eustache Daoult
  5. 1642 Dom Paul de Rivery
  6. 1645 Dom Sébastien Comtat
  7. 1648 Dom Benoît Raby
  8. 1651 Contin.
  9. 1654 Dom Germain Ferrand
  10. 1657 Dom Germain Friville
  11. 1660 Contin.
  12. 1663 Dom Nicolas Audineau (adm.)
  13. 1666 Dom Laurent Hunault
  14. 1669 Dom Charles Aubourg
  15. 1672 Dom Claude Carrel
  16. 1675 Dom Jean Baptiste Houssaye
  17. 1678 Contin.
  18. 1681 Dom Claude Guisnier (adm.)
  19. 1684 Dom Jean Baptiste Jouault (adm.)
  20. 1687 Dom Nicolas Asselin
  21. 1690 Contin.
  22. 1693 Dom Charles Turpin
  23. 1696 Dom Nicolas Poitevin
  24. 1699 Contin.
  25. 1702 Dom André Le Febvre
  26. 1705 Contin.
  27. 1708 D, Nicolas Le Poitevin
  28. 1711 Dom René Laneau
  29. 1714 Contin.
  30. 1717 Dom Pierre Eudes
  31. 1720 Dom Jean Birée
  32. 1723 Dom René Rigault
  33. 1726 Dom Charles Luché
  34. 1729 Contin.
  35. 1733 Dom Maurice de Hautot
  36. 1736 Dom Timothée Vérel
  37. 1739 Dom Jacques Dupuy
  38. 1742 Dom Etienne Le Picard
  39. 1745 Dom César Lepin
  40. 1748 Dom Nicolas Mirbeau
  41. 1751 Dom Etienne Nadal
  42. 1754 Dom Jacques Cazeaux
  43. 1757 Contin.
  44. 1760 Dom Etienne Louis Roblée
  45. 1763 Dom Thomas Pardessus
  46. 1766 Dom Jacques Cazeaux
  47. 1769 Dom Jacques Viot
  48. 1772 Dom Jean Bourget
  49. 1775 Dom Barthélémy Jean Baptiste Sanadon
  50. 1778 Dom Jacques Cazeaux
  51. 1781 Contin.
  52. 1783 Dom Guillaume Alexandre Huet
  53. 1788 Contin.

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, Abbayes et prieurés de l’ancienne France, t. I, Province de Paris (AFM I), 1905, p. 229-230 · Besse, Introduction (AFM IV), 1906, p. 93 · POP Mérimée PA00097223, Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinité et son collège · POP Inventaire IA28000281, église abbatiale de la Sainte-Trinité · Mairie de Thiron-Gardais, Histoire (abbaye de la Trinité et ordre de Tiron) · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Present-day photograph: Abbaye Notre-Dame de Valmont
The house today. Photo: Velvet, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Notre-Dame de Valmont

Valmont (Seine-Maritime) · diocese of Rouen · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1754

According to Beaunier-Besse, Nicolas d’Estouteville founded the abbey in 1169. It suffered from the Hundred Years’ War and the Wars of Religion. It was incorporated into the Congregation of Saint-Maur in 1754, and major rebuilding works followed at the end of the 18th century. Ruins of the church remain; a community of Benedictine nuns has lived on the site since 1994.

The Maurist priors, 1754-1788
  1. 1754 Dom Romain Baudry
  2. 1757 Dom Romain Baudry
  3. 1763 Dom Romain Baudry
  4. 1766 Dom Romain Baudry
  5. 1769 Dom Pierre Jacques Fontaine
  6. 1772 Dom Pierre Jacques Fontaine
  7. 1775 Dom Pierre Charles David
  8. 1778 Dom Pierre Charles David
  9. 1781 Dom Jean Collibeaux
  10. 1783 Dom Jean Collibeaux
  11. 1788 Dom Placide Joseph

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, Abbayes et prieurés de l’ancienne France, t. VII Province ecclésiastique de Rouen (AFM 17), 1914, p. 55-56 · Lecestre, Abbayes, prieurés et couvents d’hommes en France, 1902, p. 14 (Province de Normandie) · POP Mérimée PA00101075, Ancienne abbaye (également sur commune de Thérouldeville)

Sources of this pageEngraved views: Monasticon Gallicanum, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Department of Prints and Photographs, public-domain reproductions published by Wikimedia Commons. Lists of priors: after dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959; for Eysses (province of Toulouse) and Saint-Maixent (province of Chezal-Benoît), after the monographs cited under their lists. Notices: Dom J.-M. Besse and dom Ch. Beaunier, Abbayes et prieurés de l’ancienne France, Archives de la France monastique, 1905-1941; L. Lecestre, Abbayes, prieurés et couvents d’hommes en France, 1902; the Mérimée database of the Plateforme ouverte du patrimoine; BnF authority records; the Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel. The references for each house are given under its entry.

The Maurist housesThe Congregation of Saint-MaurMaurist Mas-Garnier