Secqueval

Title

Secqueval

Dates

Founded by 9th century

Dedication

Germain

Affiliation

Clairfontaine

Medieval Diocese

Chartres

Circary

France

History

There was a chapel on this site from at least the 9th century. Its history is poorly documented, but for a period in the Middle Ages it appears to have been a priory dependent on the Premonstratensian abbey of Clairfontaine.

The priory is today in ruins.

Status

Priory

Bibliography

Bourgeois, Luc. “Guerville (Yvelines). Chapelle priorale de Saint-Germain de Secqueval.” Archéologie médiévale 21, no. 1 (1991): 311–311. https://www.persee.fr/doc/arcme_0153-9337_1991_num_21_1_998_t1_0311_0000_4.

———. “La chapelle priorale de Saint-Germain-de-Secqueval à Guerville.” Bulletin du centre de recherches archéologiques de la région mantaise 9 (1991): 12–26. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JR0Hvh4O4xHisY5iIA7lwG5W7s3gJciu/view.

Image Credit

"Prieuré de Saint-Germain de Secqueval" as shown on the Cassini Map, 18th century.

Files

Collection

France

Citation

“Secqueval,” A Premonstratensian Atlas, accessed October 16, 2026, https://yvonneseale.org/atlas/items/show/1003.

Geolocation

Item Relations

This Item DependentOn Item: Clairfontaine