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Longchamp Abbey (French: Abbaye royale de Longchamp), known also as the Convent of the Humility of the Blessed Virgin, was a convent of Poor Clares founded in 1255 in Auteuil, Paris, by Saint Isabelle of France. The site is now occupied by Longchamp Racecourse.




Royal Foundation



Isabelle was the daughter of Louis VIII of France and Blanche of Castile, and the younger sister of King Louis IX of France (Saint Louis). Though betrothed to Hugh, eldest son and heir of Hugh X of Lusignan, Isabelle refused to celebrate the formal wedding due to her fixed determination to remain a virgin, although she never became a nun.
In furtherance of Isabelle's wish to found a nunnery of Poor Clares, her brother King Louis IX of France began in 1255 to acquire the necessary land in the Forest of Rouvray, not far from the Seine, west of Paris. On 10 June 1256, the first stone of the monastic church was laid. The building appears to have been completed about the beginning of 1259. The less rigorous Rule of Mansuetus allowed the community to hold property. The abbey was named the "Convent of the Humility of the Blessed Virgin". Subject to the Order of Friars Minor, some of the first nuns came from the Poor Clares in Reims. Isabelle never joined the community herself, but did live in the abbey, in a room separate from the nuns’ cells. The King visited often and remembered the Abbey in his will. Isabelle died at Longchamp on 23 February 1270, and was buried in the abbey church.




Abbesses of Longchamp


Agnès I d'Anneri 1259-1262
Mathilde de Guyencourt 1262-1263
Agnès II d’Harcourt 1264-1275
Julienne de Toyes 1275-1279
Agnès II d’Harcourt 1279-1287
Jeanne I de Nevers 1288-1294
Jeanne II de Grèce 1294-1303
Jeanne III de Vitry 1303-1312
Jeanne IV d’Harcourt 1312-13??
Jeanne V de Gueux 13??-1328
Marie I de Lions 1328-1347
Jeanne VI de Boucheville 1347-1349
Agnès III de Liège 1349-1357
Marie II de Gueux 1357-1369
Agnès IV La Chevrel 1369-1375
Jeanne VII de La Neuville 1375-1390
Laurence Jacob 1390-13??
Jeanne VIII de La Godicharde 13??-1402
Agnès V d'Issy 1402-1418
Jeanne IX des Essarts 1418-1437
Marie III de La Poterne 1437-1451
Marguerite I Gentianne 1451-1467
Jeanne X La Porchère 1467-1484
Jeanne XI Gerente 1484-1500
Jacqueline de Mailly 1500-1514
Jeanne XII de Hacqueville 1514-1532
Catherine I Picard 1532-15??
Jeanne XIII de Mailly 15??-1540
Georgette Cœur 1540-1550
Louise de Cerasme 1550-1559
Marie IV Lottin 1559-15??
Charlotte de La Chambre 15??-1567
Anne I de Fontaines 1567-1580
Jeanne XIV de Mailly 1580-1604
Françoise Potier 1604-1606
Bonne d'Amours 1606-1608
Catherine II Brûlart de Sillery 1608-1629
Claudine I Isabelle de Mailly 1629-1634
Isabelle II Mortier 1634-16??
Madeleine Placain 16??-1653
Catherine III de Bellièvre 1658-1668
Claudine II de Bellièvre 1668-1670
Claudine I Isabelle de Mailly 1670-1673
Catherine III Marie Dorat 1673-1676
Catherine-Elisabeth I de Gournay 1676-1679
Marguerite II Isabelle de Flecelles, 1679-1683
Catherine III Marie Dorat 1683-1685
Marie-Anne I Dorat 1685-1688
Anne-Marie de Bragelongne 1688-1691
Catherine III Marie Dorat 1691-1694
Marie-Anne I Dorat 1694-1697
Catherine III Marie Dorat 1697-1700
Marie-Anne I Dorat 1700-1700
Elisabeth-Henriette Guignard 1700-1703
Catherine III Marie Dorat 1703-1706
Marguerite III Agnès Nolet 1706-1709
Elisabeth-Henriette Guignard 1709-1712
Marguerite III Agnès Nolet 1712-1715
Catherine-Elisabeth II Le Cosquino 1715-1718
Marguerite III Agnès Nolet 1718-17??
Catherine-Elisabeth II Le Cosquino 17??-1721
Marie-Anne II Le Jau 1721-1724
Catherine-Elisabeth II Le Cosquino 1724-1730
Marie-Anne II Le Jau 1730-1733
Catherine-Elisabeth II Le Cosquino 1733-1737
Catherine IV Thérèse de Tourmont 1737-1740
Anne II Louise de Tourmont 1740-17??
Marie V Jeanne Jouy 17??-1790




Destruction



Longchamp Abbey underwent many vicissitudes. During the French Revolution, on 26 February 1790, the nuns were served with an order of expulsion; on 17 September 1792 the valuables and sacred objects were taken away from the chapel and by 12 October that year the nuns had left the abbey. In 1794 the empty building was offered for sale, but, as no one wished to purchase it, it was destroyed. In 1857 the remaining walls were pulled down, except for one tower, and the grounds were added to the Bois de Boulogne.




Depictions


Misbach, Vue de l'abbaye de Longchamp prise du pied du jardin de M. Lagarde, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.




See also


Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp (a flat horse race, open to thoroughbreds aged two years or older, run at Longchamp Racecourse each year in early October).




References






Further reading


Gaston Duchesne, Histoire de l'abbaye royale de Longchamp, 1257–1789, Paris, 1904.
Gerturd Młynarczyk, Ein Franziskanerinnenkloster im XV. Jahrhundert, : Edition und Analyse von Besitzinventaren aus der Abtei Longchamp, Bonn, L. Röhrscheid, 1987.
Sean L. Field, Isabelle of France: Capetian Sanctity and Franciscan Identity in the Thirteenth Century (University of Notre Dame Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-268-02880-0.
Sean L. Field, ed. and trans., The Writings of Agnes of Harcourt: The Life of Isabelle of France and the Letter on Louis IX and Longchamp (University of Notre Dame Press, 2003).

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