Abbadia Alpina
Abbadia Alpina (formerly Abadia; in Piedmontese La Badìa; in Occitan L'Abaïa) is a frazione (civil parish) of the commune (municipality) of Pinerolo in the Province of Turin in north-west Italy's region Piedmont, located between the torrents Lemina and Cusone.
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History
Abbadia Alpina belonged to the Marca di Torino (March of Turin), but came to governed by the abbots of the future diocese of Pinerolo, even after the city had established itself as a commune (1200). From 1235, however, Amadeus IV, Count of Savoy exercised over the town a kind of protectorate, which in 1243 became absolute, and was exercised thereafter either by the house of Savoy At one time it belonged to a Benedictine monastery (see below) founded in 1064 by Adelaide, Countess of Turin, and suppressed in 1748.[1]
In the nineteenth century it was a commune in its own right, part of the mandamento of Pinerolo in the Province of Pinerolo and the Diocese of Pinerolo. c. 1855 it had 192 houses, 315 families and a population of 1,406.[1]
Administrative divisions
Abbadia Alpina comprises five borghi (querters) :
- Santa Maria = San Verano, historical centre with the church and former town hall until 1928.
- La Madonnina
- Riaglietto = San Martino, the western industrial side
- La Costera, the hillside, with woods.
- Il Bersaglio, stretching to the coasts.
Abbey nullius of Santa Maria ad Abbadia Alpina
- The Benedictine monastery was founded in 1064 by Adelaide, Princess of Susa,
- In 1078 it was established the Territorial Abbacy nullius of Santa Maria ad Abbadia Alpina, which had vested in its abbot the canonical privileges of a diocesan prelate as if Ordinary, territorially not assigned to any bishopric bu exempt, directly subject to the Holy See.
- From 1443, its residential ('claustral') abbots were replaced by commendatory abbots, often secular, mainly interested in cashing the abbey's proceeds and earnings
- On 1748.12.23 it lost territory much to establish the Diocese of Pinerolo (alongside part of its metropolitan the Archbishopric of Turin).
- In 1805 it was suppressed, its remaining territory being merged (as was the former bishopric of Pinerolo) into the Diocese of Saluzzo as wished by French emperor Napoleon I Bonaparte.
- Residential abbots of Santa Maria ad Abbadia Alpina
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- Immenso (1064-1073), probably on site before the countess donated the land for the abbey
- Arnolfo (1073-1078) who in 1074 obtained exemption under Pope Gregory VII
- Arduino (1078-1095), al quale Adelaide di Susa diede il totale controllo della corte di Pinerolo, che rimarrà sotto l'abbazia fino al 1243
- Umberto (1095-1115)
- Oddone (1115-1123)
- Dalmorro (1123-1140)
- Gerardo (1140-1170)
- Focardo (1170-1189)
- Guglielmo I (1189-1195)
- Aicardo (1195-1199)
- Pietro I (1199-1202)
- Beltramo (1202-1212)
- Giovanni di Borbone (1212-1226)
- Guglielmo d'Artengo (1226-1238)
- Gerardo II (1238-1239)
- Albuino (1239-1248), excommunicated by the Pope for ceding the town and court of Pinerolo in 1243 to Count Tommaso II di Savoia.
- Ardizzone (1248-1268)
- Annone (1268-1278)
- Balangero dei Bersatori (1278-1310)
- Francesco di San Giulio (1310-1337)
- Gerardo della Balma (1337-1346)
- Andica Falcosini di Trana (1346-1375)
- Guido di Reano (1375-1381)
- Giuliano (1381-1392)
- Enrico di Piossasco (1392-1399)
- Giovanni Cacherano di Bricherasio (1399-1400)
- Luigi Ponte d'Asti (1400-1404)
- Michele Cacherano di Bricherasio (1404-1433), che comprò dalla comunità di Italia la bealera d'l Chison per i mulini di Abbadia e fu soprannominato il secondo fondatore dell'Abbazia
- Commendatory abbots of Santa Maria ad Abbadia Alpina
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- Ugone di Lusignano (1433-1442)
- Lancillotto di Lusignano (1442-1491)
- Tommaso de Sur (1491-1496)
- Urbano Bonivardo (1496-1499), che riconsacrò le chiese di San Maurizio e San Donato a Pinerolo. La sua pietra tombale si trova oggi nella chiesa parrocchiale di San Verano
- Giovanni Amedeo Bonivardo (1499-1515)
- Giovanni di Savoia (1515-1522), che si occupò con impegno dell'abbazia compiendo una lunga visita pastorale in tutte le parrocchie allora dipendenti dalla sopracitata. La sua tomba è oggi all'interno della chiesa parrocchiale di San Verano
- Pierre de la Baume (1522-1544), vescovo di Ginevra
- Giacomo di Savoia-Romont (1544-1567)
- Marcantonio Bobba (1567-1575)
- Filippo Gnostavillani (1575-1582)
- Guido Ferraro (1582-1589)
- Vincenzo Lauro (1589-1590), cardinale di Mondovì, sotto il quale i monaci Benedettini neri furono sostituiti con i Cistercensi Fogliesi dall'abito bianco
- Ruggero Tritonio (1590-1606)
- Scipione Borghese (1606-1634)
- Gianfrancesco d'Agliè (1634-1644)
- Michelangelo Broglia (1644-1677)
- Giuseppe Giacinto Broglia (1677-1721) sotto il quale nel 1693 l'abbazia fu saccheggiata dai francesi. Ciò costrinse i monaci a portare nell'abbazia di Santa Maria di Staffarda i * preziosi documenti dell'archivio abbaziale scampati alle milizie francesi, che ne avevano bruciati in gran numero
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Coordinates: 44°53′00″N 7°18′16″E / 44.88333°N 7.30444°E