Maubeuge Abbey
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Mauberge Abbey was a Benedictine cloister at Maubeuge, in northern France now close to the border with Belgium. It was founded around 661 by Aldegonde.[1][2] There was a convent there until 1791. The initial foundation was a double monastery (for men and women).
Aldegonde was abbess there until 684. Later Hildoard, bishop of Cambrai, conveyed her relics there.[3] Her immediate successors were her nieces, Aldetrudis being the second abbess[4].
Amalberga of Maubeuge joined Maubeuge later in the seventh century.
Maubeuge was made a royal abbey in 864, under the Treaty of Meersen dividing Lotharingia[5]. In the eleventh century the abbess was a powerful local figure[6].
[edit] Abbesses
- Aldegonde, (661 - 684 †),
- Aldetrude, (684)
- Madelberte, ( ? - 705 † )
- Théotrade, ( ? - 935 †),
- Ansoalde, ( 1012),
- Guiscende, 1106
- Fredescente, 1106
- Chrestienne, 1138
- Frehesecende, 1149
- Liduide, (1171), during a vacancy
- Chrestienne or Christine, 1173
- Ermengarde, 1175
- Emme, (1177 - 1202)
- Eusile, 1213
- Eusile, ( 1235 - 1245)),
- Marguerite de Fontaine, ( 1247 - 1278))
- Elizabeth, ( 1278 - 1292),
- Béatrix de Faukemont, ( 1292 - 1339)
- Marie de Faukemont, ( 1351 - 1371)
- Gertrude de Trazegnies, ( 1381 - 1429)
- Marguerite de Gavre, called d'Hérimez, (1429 - 1443 †)
- Péronne de Landas, ( 1444 - 1467)
- Iolende de Gavre, (1468 - 1482)
- Antoinette de Hénin-Liénard, called de Fontaine, ( 1483)
- Michelle de Gavre, ( 1507 - 1547)
- Françoise de Nouvelle, (1548 - 1557 †)
- Marguerite de Hinckart, (1558 - 1578 †)
- Antoinette de Sainzelle, ( 1581 - 1596)
- Christine de Bernaige, ( 1599 - 1624)
- Bonne de Haynin, ( 1625 - 1643)
- Marie de Noyelles, (1644 - 1654 †)
- Marguerite d’Oignies, 1655
- Ferdinande de Bernaige, (1660 - 1669)
- Anne-Chrétienne de Beaufort, (1672 - 1698)
- Claire-Hyacinthe de Noyelles, ( 1699 - 1719)
- Izabelle-Philippine de Hornes, ( 1719 - 1741)
- Marie Thérèse Charlotte de Croï, ( 1741 - 1774)
- Adrienne-Florence de Lannoy, ( 1775 - 1791)
[edit] References
- ^ France Guide - Department du Nord : Maubeuge
- ^ Suzanne Fonay Wemple, Women in Frankish Society: Marriage and the Cloister, 500 to 900 (1981), p. 162.
- ^ [http://www.catho.be/ftp/paroisses/bw/AldOp5003/Site/staldegonde.html, in French.
- ^ Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome
- ^ Jo Ann McNamara, Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns Through Two Millennia (1996), p. 164.
- ^ Gerda Lerner, The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-seventy (1994), p. 25.
- Isabel Moreira (2000), Dreams, Visions, and Spiritual Authority in Merovingian Gaul, Appendix B, The Earliest Vitae of Aldegund of Maubeuge
