Saint-Benoit-sur-Loire, Saint-Pierre-et-Notre-Dame
S-BEN-LR

Building Data for Saint-Benoit-sur-Loire, Saint-Pierre-et-Notre-Dame

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  • Type: Abbey
  • Affiliation: Benedictine
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  • Region: Centre
  • Department: Loiret
  • Coords: 47.809, 2.3054
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  • Surveyed: 1972-74, 1977, 1992-98, 2009, 2017

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Documents for Saint-Benoit-sur-Loire, Saint-Pierre-et-Notre-Dame

1179



Fire.

CUM FILIA REGIS FRANCORUM DUCERETUR AD CONJUGIUM FILII IMPERATORIS CONSTANTINOPOLITANI, HOSPITATA EST APUD S. BENEDICTUM SUPER LIGERIM: CUMQUE QUIDAM EX FAMULIS EJUS VELLET ACCELERARE IGNEM, INJECTO OLEO, FLAMMA EXIVIT PER FORAMINA CAMINI, ET CECIDIT SUPER TECTUM CAMINI: ET HOC CASU TOTA ABBATIA COMBUSTA EST.

As the daughter of the French king and the son of the Emperor of Constantinople lodged at Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire: When one of the servants wished to accelerate the fire by injecting oil, the flames emerged through the holes of the chimney, and spilled over the top of the chimney: and as a result the whole abbey was burned.

Source: Recueil des Historiens, xiii, 322. Roberti Abbatis de Monte, Appendice ad Sigbertum.


1184



Fire.

...en 1184, d’après Dom Chazal, un incendie détruit une partie du monastère et attaque le mur méridionale de l’église...

...in 1184, according to Dom Chazal, a fire destroyed part of the monastery and attacked the south wall of the church...

Source: Aubert, 1930, 580. Also Dom Chazal, Historia monasterii Floriac, 452-453. Also Banchereau, 1947, 20.


1218



Dedication 26 October.

...le 26 octobre 1218, eut lieu la cérémonie de la dédicace et il est vraisembable qu’à cette date les voutes étaient contruites et l’édifice entierement achevé.

...the 26 of October 1218, the dedication ceremony took place and it is reasonable that at this date the vaults were constructed and the edifice entirely completed.

Source: Dom Chazal, Historia monasterii Floriac, 452-453. Also Banchereau, 1947, 22.



1207



Translation of the relics of Saint Benedict.

RELIQUAS SANCTI BENEDICTI CULTIORUM IN THECAM SUPER ALTARE MAIUS REPONI CURAVIT PER PETRUM SENONENSUM ARCHIEPISCOPUM, ODONEM PARISIENSEM, MANASSEM AURELIANENSEM, WILLELMUM AUTISSIODORENSEM ET WILLELMUM NIVERNENSEM EPISCOPOS, CUI SOLENNITATI INTERFUIT S. GUILLELMUS BITURICENSIS ARCHIEPISCOPUS AN 1207 DIE TRANSLATIONIS SANCTI BENEDICTI.

The relics of Saint Benedict were restored to a vessel prepared above the high altar, restored by Pierre, archbishop of Sens, and bishops Odo of Paris, Manasses of Orléans, Guillaume of Auxerre and Guillaume of Nevers, the translation of Saint Benedict occurred the anniversary of the death of Saint Guillelmus archbishop of Bourges, in the year 1207.

Source: GC, viii, col. 1560.