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	Fontevraud Abbey
		The abbey contains the tombs of Eleanor of Aquitaine, her husband King Henry II of England, their son King Richard I of England, their daughter Joan, and Isabella of Angoulême, wife of their son King John.
		The Plantagenets were large benefactors of the Abbey and King Henri II’s sister Mathilde was Abbess at Fontevraud.
		During the French revolution, the order was dissolved; the Abbey later became a prison and was given to the French Ministry of Culture in 1963.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fo/Fontevrault_Abbey.html (125 words)

	Abbey of Fontrevraud
		Romanesque chevet of the abbatial church of Fontevraud.
		The Abbey of FONTEVRAUD (Maine-et-Loire) is where the last French nobles of the first Angevin dynasty, who gained reknown as the first 'Plantagenêts' kings and queens of England, were buried.
		The Order of Fontevraud was founded in 1099 and consisted as a group of monasteries: Saint Marie housed nuns; Saint Lazare lepers; Saint Benoit the sick; La Madeleine was for women considered as social outcasts ['fallen women']; and Saint Jean de l'Habit housed the monks.
	xenophongroup.com /montjoie/fontevra.htm (2290 words)

	Heritage : Fontevraud abbey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Because of the heat, his family decided not to carry his body to Grandmont but to the abbey of Fontevraud, that was also dear to the King and not as far as Grandmont.
		As it was a Royal abbey, Fontevraud depended, on the worldly level, on the King of France and his council and on the spiritual level, it depended on the Pope and his curia.
		The abbey was given back to the Ministry of Culture in 1963 and soon became the headquarters for the Cultural Centre of Western France whose mission it is to organise events linked to the building.
	www.editionsmontparnasse.fr /france/english/heritage/fonte.html (645 words)

	Kite Aerial Photography - Fontevraud No. 1
		The Abbey (also spelled Abbaye) at Fontevraud is one of the largest and best preserved medieval abbeys of France.
		Fontevraud thus became a favorite sanctuary for the female aristocracy, including Eleanor of Aquitaine, whose painted stone coffin lies in the center of the Abbey Church.
		Fontevraud is located down the Vienne River from Chinon, past the confluence of the river with the Loire and about halfway to Saumur.
	arch.ced.berkeley.edu /kap/gallery/gal181.html (682 words)

	Travel for Kids: Fontevraud, France
		The Royal Abbey of Fontevraud (Abbaye de Fontevraud), founded in the 12th century, was both a nunnery and monastery.
		The abbey was popular with the wealthy Plantagenets, including Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine.
		In the abbey chapel are buried Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, along with their son Richard the Lion-Heart.
	www.travelforkids.com /Funtodo/France/loireregion/fontevraud.htm (296 words)

	Fontevraud Abbey in the Loire Valley
		Fontevraud Abbey is 13km southeast of Saumur, and gains its importance because both French and English monarchs are buried here.
		The abbey ceased to be used for its orignal purpose with the arrival of the revolution, and became a prison until the 1960's.
		The abbey is now home to a wide range of other cultural activities and exhibitions, and is a centre for medieval archaeology.
	www.francethisway.com /places/fontevraudabbey.php (246 words)

	Fontevraud Abbey, France
		The great abbey of Fontevraud was founded in 1099 by a preacher named Robert d'Arbrissel.
		The abbey was dissolved during the French Revolution, and from 1804 to 1963 served as a prison.
		The church dates from the first half of the 12th C. It contains the tombs of members of the Plantagenet house (which favored the Benedictine order), in particular of Henry II of England, his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine and Richard Coeur-de-Lion - fine examples of 13th C sculpture.
	www.planetware.com /france/fontevraud-abbey-f-loi-font.htm (312 words)

	Kite Aerial Photography - Fontevraud No. 2
		Around 1150 or so, as the Plantagenets were beginning a long rise to power, the Abbey at Fontevraud supervised nearly 5000 people distributed in a hundred Priories and Convents spread across France, England and Spain.
		Ground-level and aerial views of the east end of the abbey church with its apse and crossing transept.
		The abbey church, consecrated in 1119, is famous for its carved capitals and the immense single nave with four domes - one of the best examples of that style in France.
	arch.ced.berkeley.edu /kap/gallery/gal182.html (458 words)

	Student Travel Information & Discounts - Events: Visitor Information: Gregorian Chant at Fontevraud Abbey (Fontevraud ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Anjou rulers were kind to the Abbey in its early days and in fact England's Henry II, his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine and two of their children are buried here.
		The abbey was pillaged in the French Revolution and eventually turned into a prison.
		The abbey lies 15km south-east of Saumur, on the D749 between Saumur and Chinon.
	www.istc.org /sisp/index.htm?fx=event.detail&event_id=91356 (208 words)

	Pietrina and Dick's Loire Trip -- Saturday
		Next we journeyed south a few kilometers to the Fontevraud abbey, the largest collection of monastic buildings in France (although it has been a long time since it was last used for that).
		The abbey was always headed by a woman (which didn't sit too well with the priests).
		This church was the predecessor of Westminster Abbey in London, as we shall see in a few minutes.
	www.fmschmitt.com /pictures/loire/fontevraud.htm (1078 words)

	Castles of the Loire Valley, June 2002
		During the 11th century a Breton priest and theologian, Robert d'Abrissel moved to the forest of Craon and founded the abbey of La Roë on the limits of Brittany, Normandy and Anjou.
		Pope Urban II went to the abbey in 1096 to hear the priest.
		He stopped in Fontevraud in 1101 and founded a new abbey, unique in its kind as it welcomed, in five different buildings, various communities that also served as a women's prison for the past century.
	www.ajacob.com /trips/Chateau_Loire/Chateau_Loire.html (791 words)

	ICEIS 2003 International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, CFP call for papers available
		In particular, a visit of the famous Royal Abbey of Fontevraud, which is presented briefly below, is planned.
		Founded in 1101 by Robert d'Arbrissel and ruled over for centuries by the most powerful of abbesses, the Abbey of Fontevraud was, before the Revolution, the richest and most important monastery in France.
		The location of the various living accommodations of Fontevraud followed the Benedictine plan: to the north, the church; to the east, the sacristy, the chapter house, the community hall; to the south, the refectory; to the west, the outbuildings.
	www.iceis.org /iceis2003/socialActivities.htm (704 words)

	The Royal Abbey of Fontevraud has launched its 2004 programme
		The 2004 programme of the French Royal Abbey of Fontevraud consists on two religious music festivals, several concerts and exhibitions, a Gregorian chant workshop and other spectacles.
		This year the Abbey has prepared a cycle of concerts and lectures to pay tribute to Aliénor de Aquitaine; two religious and sacred music festivals -The Easter Festival and The Ascension Festival-; a Gregorian chant international workshop and several lectures and spectacles.
		The celebration of the Gregorian chant workshop, organized by the Abbey, will be the main activity on June.
	www.goldbergweb.com /en/news/france/2004/01/17505.php (340 words)

	L'Abbaye : History
		Anjou literally sits on layers of history: fossils from Doue la Fontaine; unexplained Dolmens from 6000-2000 B.C.; Roman ruins; Eleaonor of Acquitaine and the Abbey of Fontevraud; Troglodyte caves; medieval fortresses; Renaissance chateaux; and the Vendeen uprising.
		The Abbey was founded in the 1100's and is in fact cited a Papal Bull in 1147; however, during the
		The “new” Abbey built at the beginning of the 1600's is a much grander affair including a bakery, enormous fireplaces and monks cells.
	www.labbaye.net /history.htm (127 words)

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		The abbey of Fontevraud was founded in 1099 by Robert d'Arbrissel, a hermit who enjoyed the support of Pope Urban II.
		Henry II, king of England, his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, Richard I (Coeur de Lion) and Isabella of Angoulême, wife of king John (Lackland) are buried in the abbey.
		The choir and apse of the abbey church
	www.popadd.com /mws/usr/policedaniel5/pages/policedaniel5-4434.html (317 words)

	.:: Hôtellerie Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud, Maine-et-Loire - Pays de la Loire ::. concept France Patrimoine: hotels ...
		A mixed order, headed by an Abbess, the Royal Abbey of Fontevraud was founded by Robert d'Arbrissel in 1101.
		The Abbey's protectors were the Counts of Anjou, followed by their descendants, the Plantagenet kings of England.
		The abbey church contains the recumbent effigies of Plantagenet King Henry II, Eleanor of Aquitaine, their son Richard the Lionheart, and Isabelle of Angouleme.
	www.hotelfp-fontevraud.com /gb/page/histoire.php (236 words)

	Les éditions Fragile
		DESCRIPTION : A synthesized monograph of the largest existing abbey in Europe; inside are preserved the recumbent effigies of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II Plantagenet and their son Richard the Lionheart.
		At the origin it was the only abbey for both sexes commanded by a woman, then later it became a royal abbey.
		Situated nearly three kilometres from the Loire valley, this little vale had the largest concentration of population because it was on the main line of communication…”.
	www.premiumwanadoo.com /fragile/GB/COLLECTIONS/MDP/MDP-FONGB.html (178 words)

	Fontevraud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud was founded in 1000, at that time it was spelled Fontevrault.
		The founder, Robert d´Arbrissel, is buried there, but he was never made a saint, his religious ideas were considered too odd by the Church.
		Despite this, the Order of Fontevraud survived and was powerful for over 7 centuries, fostering a lively and intense religious life.
	www.philae.nu /Eleanor/Fontevraud.html (263 words)

	Historical Mystery Review: Forune Like the Moon - Women in World History Curriculum
		When a nun belonging to the Abbey of Hawkenlye, modeled after Eleanor’s beloved Fontevraud Abbey, is murdered, Richard worries that his mother’s naive act has backfired, and sends one of his trusted knights, Josse d’Acquin, to Hawkenlye to investigate.
		Abbess Helewise is “worldly,” having been once married and widowed, and heads a double monastery, one in which monks as well as nuns are under her command.
		There is a map of the abbey depicting the divisions of space, including the “Virgin Sisters’ House,” the infirmary and enclosed area for sisters who have elected to care for the lepers, and the vale where the monks tend to the “sacred spring.”
	womeninworldhistory.com /mystery-78.html (318 words)

	MyriadMush.Net: The Grand Tour: Fontevraud
		For they rest in nearby Fontevraud, the abbey that still stands, though wars and kingdoms have come and gone.
		The galloping is slowed as the abbey begins to loom overhead -- a mountain of gothic spire and stone, and Curtmantle eases into an extended trot.
		As a youth, he had been fascinated by the solitary lives of those in the monasteries and abbeys, but his call was different.
	www.myriadmush.net /blogarch/root/000558.html (6124 words)

	reagenealogy - pafg60 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He was buried on 8 Jul 1189 in Fontevraud Abbey, France.
		She was buried in Fontevraud Abbey, Maine-et-Loire, France.
		She died on 10 Sep 1167 in Abbey of Notre Dame des Prés, Rouen.
	members.cox.net /garyrea/pafg60.htm (470 words)

	Fontevraud
		Fontevraud, an abbey near Chinon became the favorite of the Plantagenets, and Elinor of Acquitaine received the veil there after the death of her husband Henry the II.
		The four gisants, or effigies, lying before the sacristry are Elinor herself and her husband Henry the II Plantagenet, Richard the Lionhearted, their son, and Isabelle of Angoulème. Below are some scenes of the Abbey.
		The kitchens (a second site with lots of pictures) are the only examples of Romanesque style to have survived in France.
	www.nd.edu /~jdouthwa/images/Excursions/Fontevraud.html (84 words)

	Groups rally "Princes and Monks" - Incentive 01
		Groups Rally from the abbey of Fontevraud to the underground maze of the Chateau de Brézé
		Situated at the borders of Anjou, Poitou and Tourraine, this abbey is one of the most important monastic centers in Europe.
		At the 12th c, it became the necropolis of the Plantagenet dynasty and it houses the tombs of Henry II Plantagenet, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and Richard Lion’s Heart.
	www.loire-azur.com /english/incentive01.htm (547 words)

	Tuesday
		He arranges for the BandB owner to take her to the Abbey at Frontevraud to tour and he will meet us at the Abbey with one of his bikes for Jayne.
		I finish final prep of the trike and depart for the Abbey.
		Despite Claude's excellent maps and directions, we take the wrong road out of Fontevraud and end up several kilometers south of our intended destination.
	www.jstevenwood.com /tuesday.htm (354 words)

	Fontevraud
		The Royal Abbey of Fontevraud is a contradiction: it is a brand new XIIth century edifice!
		It was originally built in 1101 as the headquarters of the monastic order of Fontrevaud.
		It was joined to the refectory (dining hall) at a much later date.
	www.peacham.com /france/fontevraud.htm (288 words)

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	Joelle Bitton / Portfolio / Abbaye de Fontevraud installation
		Joelle Bitton / Portfolio / Abbaye de Fontevraud installation
		An interactive installation installed at the Abbey of Fontevraud tells its 900 years' history and explains its architecture.
		System: projection on a transparent glass, system elaborated by ZA productions and Maurice Benayoun.
	www.superficiel.org /joelle/design/pages/font2.htm (75 words)

	Fontevrault Abbey - Anjou, France - Great Buildings Online
		Fontevraud Abbey is similar in arrangement to Angouleme Cathedral in Aquitaine, with a long aisleless nave and transepts with chapels, together forming a Latin cross in plan.
		Search the RIBA architecture library catalog for more references on Fontevrault Abbey
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	www.greatbuildings.com /buildings/Fontevrault_Abbey.html (94 words)

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