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Fontevrault
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Fontevrault, an abbey (near Saumur, western France) and congregation. Around 1101, the itinerant preacher Robert of Arbrissel founded a monastic community with four suborders of women and men living largely according to the Benedictine Rule (Benedict, Rule of) with a strict customary ( Consuetudines ). The brethren were charged with the secular and spiritual care of the nuns. The abbess of the larger monastery in Fontevrault was charged with the overall leadership of Fontevrault itself as well as of priories in France, Spai…

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Merz, Birgit, “Fontevrault”, in: Religion Past and Present. Consulted online on 19 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1877-5888_rpp_SIM_07716>
First published online: 2011
First print edition: ISBN: 9789004146662, 2006-2013



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