The Abbey of Saint-Michel-en-l"Herm dates from 682 AD when it was constructed by Benedictine monks from Noirmoutier. It ...
Bricquebec Abbeyn (Notre-Dame de Grâce de Bricquebec) was founded in 1824 by father Bon Onfroy. The abbey church was co ...
Saint-Sever-Calvados Abbey was founded by Guillaume Sanche, the lord of Gascony in the late 10th century. According to the mo ...
Melleray Abbey was a Cistercian monastery, founded about the year 1134. Guitern, the first abbot, erected the original monast ...
Morimond Abbey was the fourth of the four great daughter abbeys of Cîteaux Abbey, of primary importance in the spread of the ...
La Crête Abbey was a Cistercian monastery in the commune of Bourdons-sur-Rognon. It was founded in 1121 as the second daught ...
Savigny Abbey (Abbaye de Savigny) was founded by Vital de Mortain, who set up a hermitage in the forest of Savigny (1105). Ru ...
The Royal Abbey of Notre-Dame de Lieu-Dieu, founded in 1197 by Richard the Lionheart for Premonstratensian canons, suffered t ...
Founded in 1123 in a place formerly called Locus Diaboli (Latin for 'devil"s place') due to the large number o ...
Saint-Thierry Abbey was formerly a Benedictine abbey in the village of Saint-Thierry, Marne. It was closed in the 17th centur ...
The royal abbey of Saint-Michel-de Bois-Aubry illustrates the transition from hermitism (Hermit Roberto in the 11th century) ...
Hervé de Donzy, the Lord of Saint Aignan established Cornilly Abbey in the 11th century. It was authorized by Pope Urb ...
Clairmarais owes its origin to the famous Cistercian abbey founded by St. Bernard in 1140. He gave the village the name of Cl ...
Montebourg Abbey was probably established by William the Conqueror after the invasion to England (1066). The exact date is un ...
Preuilly Abbey, the fifth daughter house of Cîteaux Abbey, was founded in 1118 by Stephen Harding on a site provided by ...
St. Marx Abbey was a Benedictine nunnery in Gueberschwihr in Alsace, founded in about 1105. Since 1845 it has been the princi ...
Le Breuil-Benoît Abbey was founded in 1137 by Foulques, lord of Marcilly, and his son Guillaume. It was settled by monk ...
La Trappe Abbey is the house of origin of Reformed Cistercians or Trappists, to whom it gave its name. It began as a small or ...
Sainte-Marie du Désert Abbey was founded in 1852. It was raised to the status of priory in 1855, and to abbey in 1861. The a ...
Bonnefontaine Abbey was founded in 1152 by the lord of Rumigny. It was abandoned in 1790 and left to decay. Today some ruins ...