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    The Abbey of St. Jean des Vignes was a monastery of Augustinian canons in Soissons, France, southwest of the city center. Only ruins remain, of which...
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  • in 1099. John was involved with the Abbey of St. Jean des Vignes. John married Aveline de Pierrefonds, daughter of Nivelon II, Seigneur de Pierrefonds...
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    Aisne (redirect from Department of Aisne)
    Laon Longpont Abbey Abbey of St. Jean des Vignes Vauclair Abbey Church of Saint-Caprais Abbey church of Saint-Yved de Braine War memorials of the First World...
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    Soissons (category Communes of Aisne)
    counts of Soissons. Arsenal – Exhibition space in the arsenal of the former Abbey of St. Jean des Vignes Passerelle des Anglais – The "Passerelle des Anglais"...
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  • Sablonceaux, Charente-Maritime Abbey of St. Jean des Vignes, Soissons Abbey of St. Loup, Troyes (including Cluniacs): see List of Benedictine monasteries in...
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    Dalmas and his son Gaucher donated an oven and a tithe to the Abbey of St. Jean des Vignes, Soissons. He married a woman named Agnès or Adélaïde, with whom...
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    Lagny Abbey (St Peter’s Abbey, Lagny) was a monastery situated in the present-day commune of Lagny-sur-Marne in the department of Seine-et-Marne in France...
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    Brogne Abbey (French: Abbaye de Brogne), also known as Saint-Gerard Abbey, was a Benedictine abbey founded in the early 10th century by Gerard of Brogne...
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    Caen (category Communes of Calvados (department))
    day after the Nativity of St Mary and was buried in Caen, in St Stephen's Abbey René Lepelley, Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de communes de Normandie...
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    Saint-Étienne (redirect from St Etienne)
    Saint Stephen. On the upper reaches of the Furan, near the Way of St. James, the Abbey of Valbenoîte had been founded by the Cistercians in 1222. In the...
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    and enamel plaques. The Museum of Fine Arts is housed in the former Abbey of Saint-Denis. Part of the former Collège des Jésuites has also become a contemporary...
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    church of the abbey of Gellone where we find the best preserved French organ of Jean-Pierre Cavaillé. The cloister of the abbey. A large part of this cloister...
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    Tours (redirect from History of Tours)
    Arcis enclosure List of possessions of the abbey of Marmoutier de Tours Gallo-Roman enclosure of Tours "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in...
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    River in Figeac. Saint Peter’s Abbey, Moissac. Arcades in Montreal-du-Gers. Collegial of Saint Barthélémy in Pimbo. Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port. J. van Herwaarden...
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    Tournus (redirect from Abbey of Tournus)
    Paris-Lyon railway. The church of St Philibert (early 11th century), is the main surviving building of the former Benedictine abbey of Tournus, suppressed in...
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    Val-Honnête Abbey, see Féniers Abbey Le Val-Richer Abbey, monks, diocese of Bayeux (Saint-Ouen-le-Pin, Calvados) Le Val-des-Vignes Abbey (Abbaye du Val-des-Vignes)...
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    of the century. The Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés (990–1160) Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris (1160–1230) Renaissance wing of the Louvre (1546), by...
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    Autun (redirect from Count of Autun)
    with the following municipalities. Abbey of St Andoche, Autun Abbey of Saint-Jean-le-Grand Autun Cathedral Communes of the Saône-et-Loire department Morvan...
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    Périgueux (redirect from See of Périgueux)
    Petrocoriorum. In the 10th century, Le Puy-Saint-Front was constructed around an abbey next to the old Gallo-Roman city. It was organised into a municipality around...
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    Letter of Ausone, Louis Maurin in: Jean Combes (dir.) and Michel Luc (dir.), Charente from prehistory to modern times (collective work), St-Jean-d'Y, Imprimerie...
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    Uzerche (redirect from Abbey of Uzerche)
    I, viscount of Segur, gifted the 'Chapelle Notre-Dame' to the monks of the Abbey. This chapel still exists in Uzerche at the 'Place des Vignerons'. Around...
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    Mougins (category Communes of Alpes-Maritimes)
    administer the village, and until the eve of the French Revolution in 1789 its history matched that of the abbey. The former monks' court house, a vaulted...
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    Douai (category Communes of Nord (French department))
    wandering, finally settled at Downside Abbey, Somerset, in 1814. Another English Benedictine community, the Priory of St. Edmund, which had been formed in...
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    released but died soon after. Joan then married Thomas of Savoy. She died in 1244 at the Abbey of Marquette near Lille, having survived her only child,...
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    of St. John the Baptist (French: Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste; Dutch: Sint-Jan-de-Doperkerk) is a Roman Catholic parish church located in the centre of...
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    John Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier (category British military personnel of the War of the Spanish Succession)
    PC (7 November 1680 – 28 April 1770), was a French Huguenot exile, born Jean Louis de Ligonier in Castres, Southern France. He had a long and distinguished...
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    Watten, Nord (category Burial sites of the House of Metz)
    Watten belonged to the Abbey of Saint-Riquier though the counts of Boulogne and Flanders attempted to take possession of it. The abbey of Watten was the oldest...
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    Tulle (category Communes of Corrèze)
    The first stone of the new abbey church was laid in 1130 but the building was not completed until two centuries later. The spire of the 12th century...
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    at the school of the famed Abbey of Port Royal in Paris, then studied at the Collège d'Harcourt, following which he entered the Oratory of Paris, and did...
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    Scy-Chazelles (category Communes of Moselle (department))
    on Mont St. Quentin near Metz. The historical area of Scy-Chazelles was shared between the Gorze Abbey, the Bishop of Metz, and the city of Metz. In...
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