Abbey of Saint-Marcel-lès-Chalon

46°46′12″N 4°53′13″E / 46.77°N 4.887°E / 46.77; 4.887

The Priory of Saint-Marcel-lès-Chalon, earlier the Abbey of Saint-Marcel-lès-Chalon (French: Abbaye Saint-Marcel-lès-Chalon), was a monastery located in the present commune of Saint-Marcel near Chalon-sur-Saône, Saône-et-Loire, eastern France. It was founded in c. 590 as a Benedictine abbey. Somewhere between 979 and 988 it became part of the Congregation of Cluny, when it became a priory, like most Cluniac houses.^[1]

The philosopher Peter Abelard died here in 1142.^[2] The priory was suppressed during the French Revolution: the monastic buildings were demolished but the church survives as a parish church.^[3]

References[edit]

^ Martine Chauney-Bouillot, Les origines du prieuré clunisien de Saint-Marcel-lès-Chalon, in Mélanges d'histoire et d'archéologie offerts au Pr K.J. Conant, Mâcon, Bourgogne Rhône Alpes, 1977, pp. 81-96
^ Abaelard.de
^ BUCEMA 10/2006: Saint-Marcel-lès-Chalon (Saône-et-Loire), église Saint-Marcel, Christian Sapin

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[1] Martine Chauney-Bouillot, Les origines du prieuré clunisien de Saint-Marcel-lès-Chalon, in Mélanges d'histoire et d'archéologie offerts au Pr K.J. Conant, Mâcon, Bourgogne Rhône Alpes, 1977, pp. 81-96

[2] Abaelard.de

[3] BUCEMA 10/2006: Saint-Marcel-lès-Chalon (Saône-et-Loire), église Saint-Marcel, Christian Sapin

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