Abbey of Île Barbe

Abbey of Île Barbe

The Abbey of Île Barbe in 1616.
Location within France
Monastery information
Other names Abbaye de l'Île Barbe, Abbaye Saint-Martin de l'Île-Barbe
Order Benedictine
Established 5th Century AD
Disestablished 1549
Site
Location Île Barbe, Lyon, France
Coordinates 45°47′49″N 4°49′55″E / 45.797°N 4.832°E / 45.797; 4.832Coordinates: 45°47′49″N 4°49′55″E / 45.797°N 4.832°E / 45.797; 4.832
Other information (Monument historique)

The Abbey of Île Barbe was an Abbey built very early in the Christian era, on Île Barbe, outside of Lyon, France.[1][2]

The abbey was founded on the island in the 5th century and was the first monastic establishment in the Lyon region and one of the oldest in Gaul. Charlemagne endowed it with a beautiful library.[3]

The monastery, was however looted several times (in 676, and in 725 by the Saracens and in 937 by Hongrois). The abbey adopted the Rule of St. Benedict in the 9th century and gradually gained some wealth. In 816, Louis the Pious granted the monastery the right at any time of three ships on the Saone, the Rhone and the Doubs péages free of taxes; a decree of immunity and protection to monastère which was confirmed by Charles the Bald in 614.[4][5]

The Abbey in 1819.

In the early 16th century, the abbey came under the commendatory of the family of Albon. In 1549, pope Paul III[6] it is secularized and the monks became canons (collegiate). In 1562, she was devastated and burned by the Protestant troops of Baron Adrets.

The chapter of canons was finally removed in 1741, and installs a facility for elderly or infirm priests, which in turn is removed in 1783. During the Revolution, at which point everything was sold and dispersed.

List of Abbotts

References

  1. ↑ History of Barbe Island.
  2. ↑ Louis le Pieux à l’abbaye de l’Ile-Barbe.
  3. ↑ le roi Charles à l’abbaye de l’Ile-Barbe.
  4. ↑ Bésian Arroy, Brève et dévote histoire de l'abbaye de l'Isle Barbe, Lyon, 1668.
  5. ↑ J. Picot, La seigneurie de l'abbaye de l'Ile-Barbe, Lyon, 1953
  6. ↑ Notice d'autorité de la bibliothèque nationale de France sur le chapitre de la collégiale Saint-Martin de l'Île-Barbe
  7. ↑ Vies des Saints du diocèse de Lyon par François-Zénon Collombet (1835)
  8. ↑ Topographie historique du département de l'Ain, 201.
  9. ↑ Bernard Berthod, Jacqueline Boucher, Bruno Galland Régis Ladous and André Pelletier, Archevêques de Lyon (Éditions lyonnaises d'art et d'histoire , Lyon 2012) p77.
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