Luxeuil Abbey
Luxeuil Abbey (French pronunciation: [lyksœj]), the Abbaye Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul, was one of the oldest and best-known monasteries in Franche-Comté, located in what is now the département of Haute-Saône in Franche-Comté, France.
History[edit]
Columbanus[edit]
It was founded circa 590 by the Irish missionary Saint Columbanus.[1] Columbanus and his companions first settled in cells at Annegray, in the commune of Voivre, Haute-Saône. Looking for a more permanent site for his community, Columbanus decided upon the ruins of a well-fortified Gallo-Roman settlement, Luxovium, about eight miles away. The Roman town had been ravaged by Attila in 451, and was now buried in the dense overgrown woodland that had filled the abandoned site over more than a century, but the place still had the advantage of the thermal baths ("constructed with unusual skill", according to Columbanus' early biographer, Jonas of Bobbio) down in the valley, which still give the town its name of Luxeuil-les-Bains. Jonas described it further: "There stone images crowded the nearby woods, which were honoured in the miserable cult and profane former rites in the time of the pagans".[2]
With a grant from an officer of the palace at Childebert's court, an abbey church was built with a sense of triumph within the heathen site and its "spectral haunts".[3]
Under the intellectual and spiritual stimulation of the Irish monks, the abbey at Luxeuil, dedicated to Saint Peter, soon became the most important and flourishing monastery in Gaul. The community was so large that choir followed choir in the chanting of the office, and at Luxeuil the laus perennis imported from Agaunum went on day and night.
590–610 : St
Columbanus
610–625 :
Eustace
625–670 : St
Waldebert
670–6?? : Vindologus
6??–665 : Berthoald
665–682 : Ingofrid
682–6?? : Cunctan
6??–6?? : Rusticus
6??–700 : Sayfrocius (Sayfarius)
700–7?? : Ado
7??–7?? : Arulf
7??–7?? : Rendinus
7??–7?? : Regnebert
7??–7?? : Gerard I
7??–7?? : Ratto
7??–730 : Vinlincrannus (Vuikeranus)
730–731 : St Mellinus
731–746 : vacancy
746–7?? : Frudoald
7??–7?? : Gaylembus
7??–764 : Airibrand
764–7?? : Boso
7??–785 : Grimoald
785–786 : Andrew I
786–7?? : Docto
7??–8?? : Siliernus
8??–817 : Dadinus
817–834 : St
Ansegisus
834–834 :
Drogo
834–855 : Fulbert
856–888 : St Gibart
???–??? : Eudes I
948–983 : Guy I
983–1018 : Aalongus
1018–10?? : Milo
10??–1049 : William I
1049–10?? : Gerard II
10??–10?? : Roger
10??–10?? : Robert
10??–10?? : Guy II
1090–1023 : Thibaud I
1123–1136 : Hugh I
1136–1139 : Josserand
1139–1147 : Stephen I
1147–1160 : Gerard III
1160–1165 : Peter I
1165–1178 : Sifroi
1178–1186 : Bouchard
1186–1189 : Gerard IV
1189–1201 : Olivier d'Abbans
1201–1204 : Frederick
1204–1209 : Hervé
1209–1219 : Hugh II
1219–1234 : Simon
1234–1265 : Thibaud II
1265–12?? : Régnier
12??–1271 : Hugh III
1271–1287 : Charles I
1287–1308 : Thibaud III de Faucogney
1308–1314 : Stephen II
1314–1319 : vacancy
1319–1345 : Eudes II de Châtillon
1345–1351 : Fromond de Corcondray
1351–1363 : Guillaume II de Saint-Germain
1364–1382 : Aymon de Mollans
1382–1416 : Guillaume III de Bussul
1416–1416 : Pierre II de Lugney
1416–1424 : Étienne III Pierrecy de L'Isle
1424–1427 : Guy III Pierrecy de L'Isle
1427–1431 : Jean I d'Ungelles
1431–1449 : Guy IV Briffaut
1449–1468 :
Jean II Jouffroy
1468–1495 : Antoine I de Neuchâtel
1495–1533 : Jean III de La Palud de Varambon
1534–1541 : François I de La Palud de Varambon
1542–1560 : François II Bonvalot
1560–1586 :
Antoine II Perrenot de Granvelle
1587–1600 : Louis de Madruce
1600–1601 : André II d'Autriche
1601–1622 : Antoine III de La Baume
1622–1631 : Philippe de La Baume
1633–1642 : Jérôme Coquelin
1642–1671 : Jean–Baptiste Ier Clerc
1671–1671 : Claude–Paul de Bauffremont
1671–1671 : Emmanuel Privey
1671–1680 : Jean–Baptiste II Joseph-Hyacinthe de Bauffremont
1680–1733 : Charles II Emmanuel de Bauffremont
1733–1741 : vacancy
1741–1743 : René de Rohan-Soubise
1743–1790 : Jean IV Louis-Aynard de Clermont-Tonnerre
For a list of abbots, see Henri Baumont, Étude historique sur l'abbaye de Luxeuil (590–1790) (Luxeuil, 1895), appendix I.
List of Merovingian monasteries
Merovingian architecture
Merovingian art
Catholic Encyclopedia article: Luxeuil
(in Latin)