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The Royal Abbey of Our Lady of Fontevraud or Fontevrault (in French: abbaye de Fontevraud) was a monastery in the village of Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, near...

Juliane (Juliana) de Fontevrault (1090 – after 1136), was a French noble, the illegitimate daughter of King Henry I of England. She is notorious for attempting...

Fontevraud-l'Abbaye (French pronunciation: [fɔ̃təvʁo labei] ) is a commune in the western French department of Maine-et-Loire. It is situated both in the...

IV d. 1170 Marie, married Duke Odo II of Burgundy, became abbess of Fontevrault later in life. Stephen I of Sancerre 1133–1191, count of Sancerre and...

Jean Genet about experiences as a detainee in Mettray Penal Colony and Fontevrault prison, although there is no direct evidence of Genet ever having been...

1111–1154, Fontevrault), married William Adelin; after his death on the White Ship disaster of 1120, she became a nun and later Abbess of Fontevrault Elias...

Fontevrault, dit d'Aliénor de Bretagne". graduel-bfm.limoges.fr. Retrieved 2020-01-01. Pierre Campagne, Monique Boulestin, Le Graduel de Fontevrault,...

at Versailles; the others were sent away to be raised at the Abbey of Fontevrault. Marie was a pious and timid Queen who spent most of her time secluded...

Eleanor of Brittany (1275 – 16 May 1342) was the sixteenth abbess of Fontevrault. She was born in England to John II, Duke of Brittany and Beatrice of...

Gauthier II, Seigneur of Avesnes Isabelle of Chartres Alix, Abbess of Fontevrault Kelly 1991, p. 126. Berman 2018, p. 75. Armstrong-Partida 2005, p. 79...

ISBN 978-1-5017-1724-6. Esperdy, Gabrielle (14 January 2013). "The Royal Abbey of Fontevrault: Religious Women & the Shaping of Gendered Space". Journal of International...

pregnant, overcome by this double grief." Joan asked to be admitted to Fontevrault Abbey, an unusual request for a married, pregnant woman, but this request...

early 1176, he tried again, by persuading Eleanor to become a nun at Fontevrault. She then requested the Archbishop of Rouen to intervene and he supported...

III de Bourbon, Duke of Montpensier. Madeleine d'Angoulême, Abbess of Fontevrault (died 26 October 1543) He also had an illegitimate daughter by mistress...

talk, instead concentrating on religion (in particular the Abbey of Fontevrault, of which she remained a keen sponsor), especially the teachings of its...

the White Ship disaster of 1120, she became a nun and later Abbess of Fontevrault. Sibylla of Anjou (d. 1165), married in 1121 to William Clito, and then...

the capital of Aquitaine, and sent John and his sister Joan north to Fontevrault Abbey. This may have been done with the aim of steering her youngest...

(died 24 April 1149) was the first abbess of the double monastery of Fontevrault in western France, which she headed from 1115 to 1149 following her second...

wife of Philip of Artois (1271–1327) Eleanor of Brittany, Abbess of Fontevrault (1275–1342) Wikimedia Commons has media related to John II, Duke of Brittany...

Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester Aline, Lady of Montmorency Juliane de Fontevrault Matilda, Countess of Perche Richard of Lincoln Sybilla, Queen of Scots...