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20: 311: 28: 36: 265:, however, ended its existence as a monastery, leaving only impressive ruins. These comprise the church, with its beautiful twin towers and western façade, and portions of the cloisters and library, the contents of which were removed to 137:. Philibert became the first abbot, and Balthild's generosity added "many gifts and pastures from the royal fisc" but he was later obliged to leave Jumièges through the jealousy of certain enemies, and spent a period of exile from 217:. It reached the zenith of its fame about the eleventh century, and was regarded as a model for all the monasteries of the province. It was renowned especially for its charity to the poor, being popularly called Jumièges the 245:
The fortunes of the abbey suffered somewhat through the English invasion of the fifteenth century, but it recovered and maintained its prosperity and high position until the whole province was devastated by the
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when the abbey was dissolved. In the middle of the former cloister, there is still the 500-year-old yew tree. A gallery of the cloister was bought by Lord Stuart de Rothesay to rebuild it in
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The church was enlarged in 1256, and again restored in 1573. The abbots of Jumièges took part in all the great affairs of the church and state. One of them,
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In the ninth century it was pillaged and burnt to the ground by the Vikings, but was rebuilt on a grander scale by
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Around 654 the abbey was founded on a gift of forested land belonging to the royal
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and one of his sons (and thus a possibly dangerous avenger and successor),
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L'Abbaye de Jumièges (Seine-Inférieure): étude archéologique des ruines
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Montdidier: Impr. administrative et commerciale Grou-Randenez, 1909.
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devoted his dissertation to an archaeological study of the ruins.
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CCLXIV. Settlement of a controversy with the abbey of Jumieges
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Christian monasteries established in the 11th century
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Religious buildings and structures completed in 1067
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John Sell Cotman
Latin
French
Benedictine
commune
Jumièges
Seine-Maritime
Departement
Normandy
France
fisc
Clovis II
Balthild
Frankish nobleman Filibertus
Ouen
Wandrille
Merovingian
Dagobert I
Neustria
Ansoald of Poitiers
Pavilly
Montivilliers
Noirmoutier
Sidonius
Saint-Saëns
Achard
Charlemagne

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