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- 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 Chinon,...
- 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...
- The Fontevraud Gradual (often known as the Gradual of Eleanor of Brittany) is an antiphonary or gradual of the mid-13th century, owned by Eleanor of Brittany...
- brother became King Louis XII of France in 1498. Anne became abbess of Fontevraud in 1477. This was an abbey in which both monks and nuns lived, but which...
- Sophie and Thérèse (who died at Fontevraud at the age of eight) and Louise, were sent to be raised at the Abbaye de Fontevraud, because the cost of raising...
- monastery at Amesbury in Wiltshire, England, belonging to the Order of Fontevraud. It was founded in 1177 to replace the earlier Amesbury Abbey, a Saxon...
- attempting to poison the king. To avoid arrest, she sought refuge in Fontevraud Abbey, where she died two years later, but none of this can be confirmed...
- The effigy of Isabella of Angoulême, John's second wife, in Fontevraud Abbey in France...
- Duke of Bourbon and later John III, Count of Auvergne Renée, Abbess of Fontevraud François, Count of Vendôme (1470–1495) Louis, Prince of La Roche-sur-Yon...
- in 1177 by Henry II, who founded in its place a house of the Order of Fontevraud, known as Amesbury Priory. The name Amesbury Abbey is now used by a nearby...