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17: 573: 175:, 14 December 1572. With great ability Des Pruets undertook the difficult task of repairing the financial losses and of promoting conventual discipline at Prémontré and other houses of the order. He died on 15 May 1596, and was succeeded by two further zealous abbots, Longpré and Gosset; but the latter was succeeded by 186:
the abbey was suppressed and confiscated, and the site sold to a certain Cagnon, who demolished several buildings and sold the material. It was converted into a potassium and saltpetre factory by a wealthy glass manufacturer in the early 1790s. Having passed through several hands, the property was
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and Norbert came to Laon and stayed with Bishop Bartholomew. They also visited Prémontré Abbey and were delighted to see some five hundred religious – priests, clerics, and lay-brothers – all united in the observance of their duties under Abbot Hugh of Fosse. It was the original Premonstratensian
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Of the old abbey as it was from the 12th to the 16th centuries hardly anything remains, but three large buildings of the 17th and 18th centuries are still standing, part of one of which is used as a church, dedicated to Saint Norbert. Most of the site is still in use as the
125:, but in the general chapter of 1141 it was decided to remove the convents of nuns to at least one league's distance from the abbeys of men. Hugh died on 10 February 1161, and was succeeded by Philip, then Abbot of 100:"Venit ad locum vere juxta nomen suum, a Domino premonstratum, electum et prædestinatum" ("He came to a place truly according to its name foreshown, elect and predestined of the Lord"). 329: 271: 665: 21: 470: 655: 583: 598: 225: 164:
until he died in 1572. The historian of the abbey Charles Taiée calls these two cardinals "les fléaux de Prémontré" ("the scourges of Prémontré").
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and Norbert visited Prémontré about the middle of January and that the bishop gave the white habit to Norbert on 25 January, the feast of the
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of Prémontré, and in 1535 took possession of the abbey and all its revenues. Cardinal Francis was succeeded by
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After the death of Cardinal d'Este a free election was held and Jean Des Pruets, Doctor of the
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or meadow) made in the forest. The name, however, easily lent itself to the adapted meaning of
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At the death of Virgilius, forty-third Abbot General of Prémontré, Cardinal Francis of
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of Aisne, by whom the buildings were converted into an asylum or
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The last abbot general, L'Ecuy, was elected in 1781. At the
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in 1120 on waste land that had previously belonged to the
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Christian monasteries established in the 12th century
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Tavernier de Joniquières
fr
Premonstratensian Order
Prémontré
Laon
département
Aisne
France
Saint Norbert of Xanten
Abbey of St. Vincent, Laon
Bishop of Laon
Laon
Conversion of Saint Paul
Liège
Pope Innocent II
double monasteries
Belval
Forest of Argonne
University of Paris
Pisa
Court of Rome
commendatory abbot
Cardinal Ippolito d'Este
papal legate
Sorbonne
Pope Gregory XIII
Cardinal Richelieu
French Revolution
Bishop of Soissons

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