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List of possessions of the abbey of Marmoutier de Tours

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List of possessions of the abbey of Marmoutier de Tours
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Until the French Revolution, the abbey of Marmoutier owned numerous estates in France, as well as in England. A list drawn up in the 17th century[1] shows almost 200 dependencies, including five in England. The vast majority of these were priories, but the monks of Marmoutier also owned farms and mills close to their abbey, to ensure supplies.

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The Crosse portal (Marmoutier Abbey).

The abbey's possessions in France

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Department of Aisne

Department of Aube

Department of Calvados

Département of Cher

  • prieuré Saint-Julien de Bourges
  • priory of Saint-Martin-des-Champs de Bourges
  • priory of Saint-Palais

Department of Côtes-d'Armor

Department of Eure

  • priory of Saint-Ouen de Gisors
  • Grange-l'Abbé de Vesly seigneury.

Department of Eure-et-Loir

Department of Finistère

Department of Gironde

Department of Ille-et-Vilaine

Department of Indre-et-Loire

  • Domaine de la Roche-Baudouin at Athée-sur-Cher
  • Moulin du Lée, Cangey
  • Champigny-sur-Veude priory
  • Ferme de Couleur, Chanceaux-sur-Choisille
  • Lavaré Priory[5] in Fondettes
  • Priory of Louroux
  • Prieuré de Saint-Venant[6] de Luynes
  • Blondellerie farm in Monnaie
  • Bourdigal [7]seigneury in Monnaie
  • Bourellerie farm in Monnaie
  • métairie des Champs in Monnaie
  • métairie de la Chèvrerie in Monnaie
  • métairie de Corçay in Monnaie
  • Saint-Jean de Monnaie chapel
  • seigneury of Sentier in Monthodon
  • domaine d'Oie-Blanche in Montlouis-sur-Loire
  • priory of Négron in Nazelles-Négron
  • fief of Neuville-sur-Brenne
  • seigneury of Vauléart in Nouzilly
  • Saint-Pierre church, Parçay-Meslay
  • Chizay farm, Parçay-Meslay
  • Meslay farm,[8] Parçay-Meslay
  • seigneury of Parçay, Parçay-Meslay
  • Pécaudière farm, Parçay-Meslay
  • prieuré Saint-Loup de Rillé
  • Notre-Dame de Rivière priory
  • closerie de Montauran in Rochecorbon
  • Bezay farm, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire
  • du Fresne farm, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire
  • moulin de Garot, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire
  • Haye-Bodin farm, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire
  • moulin de Neuil, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire
  • fief de Berneçay, Saint-Quentin-sur-Indrois
  • Domaine de Chahaigne, Semblançay
  • Semblançay priory
  • Hérissière farm in Sonzay
  • priory of Sonzay
  • priory of Tavant
  • Saint-Barthélemy chapel and farm in Tours
  • Chambrerie farm, Tours
  • Maison de Foncher, Tours
  • La Fontaine farm, Tours
  • Grange-Saint-Martin fiefdom, Tours
  • Lavanderie estate, Tours
  • Milletière farm, Tours
  • Sainte-Radegonde tithe, Tours
  • Rambourg estate, Tours
  • Domaine des Rochettes, Tours
  • Saint-Pierre-de-Rome house, Tours
  • Rougemont enclosure, Tours
  • Sapaillé farm,[9] Tours
  • prieuré des Sept-Dormants in Tours
  • fief du Lavoir, Veigné.

Department of Loir-et-Cher

Department of Loire-Atlantique

Department of Loiret

  • Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Nouvelle priory, Orléans.

Department of Maine-et-Loire

Department of Manche

Department of Marne

Department of Mayenne

Department of Morbihan

Department of Oise

Department of Orne

Department of Pas-de-Calais

Department of Sarthe

City of Paris

  • prieuré Notre-Dame-des-Champs
  • prieuré Saint-Germain de Villepreux.

Department of Seine-et-Marne

Department of Yvelines

Department of Somme

Department of Vendée

  • prieuré Saint-Nicolas de Brem-sur-Mer
  • Saint-Pierre-du-Puy-Belliard priory Chantonnay
  • priory of Commequiers
  • prieuré Saint-Jean-l'Évangéliste de Fontaines
  • prieuré Saint-Etienne de La Roche-sur-Yon
  • prieuré Saint-Saturnin de Sigournais
  • prieuré Notre-Dame des Treize-Vents.

Department of Vienne

Possessions not geographically located

Due to a lack of concordant sources or possible transcription errors in toponyms, the following possessions in France could not be precisely located.

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The abbey's possessions in England

Annexes

Archives

The archives départementales d'Indre-et-Loire (Indre-et-Loire departmental archives) hold a parchment-bound in-4° vellum register, comprising 46 sheets written on the acts of visits made by Jean de Mauléon to 90 priories dependent on his abbey from 1316 to 1325.[12] Another register gives copies of the leases granted on the priories dependent on the abbey from 1719 to 1767.[13]

Bibliography

  • Carré de Busserolle, Jacques-Xavier (1882). Dictionnaire géographique, historique et biographique d'Indre-et-Loire et de l'ancienne province de Touraine. ociété archéologique de Touraine.
  • Gantier, Odile (1965). "Recherches sur les possessions et les prieurés de l'Abbaye de Marmoutier du xe au xiiie siècle : Troisième partie - rôle économique et social du prieuré". revue Mabillon (220).
  • Loizeau de Grandmaison, Charles (1994). Archives ecclésiastiques antérieures à 1790 - Série H Clergé régulier.
  • Mabille, Émile (1866). Notice sur les divisions territoriales et la topographie de l'ancienne province de Touraine (cinquième et dernier article). Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes. pp. 335–383. doi:10.3406/bec.1866.446064.
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