Fougy

Title

Fougy

Dedication

Gilles

Affiliation

Silly

Medieval Diocese

Séez

History

Initially dependent on the Benedictine abbey of St Evroult Notre-Dame-des-Bois, from the later 12th century this church was dependent on the Premonstratensian abbey of Silly.

Heads of Community

Parish Priests

Nicolas Hauton, 1409-1430
Elie Duhault, ?-1444
Pierre Cavaret, 1455-?
Laurent Lebrun, fl. late 15th c.
Etienne du Barquet, fl. early 16th c.

Status

Parish church

Bibliography

Chollet, A. “Le Bourg Saint-Léonard - Fougy.” Bulletin de la Société historique et archéologique de l’Orne 27 (1908): 583–605. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k54572629/f643.item.

“L’association Sauver l’église de fougy,” 2021. https://eglisedefougy.fr/.

Image Credit

The church of Fougy, 2014. Wikimedia.

Files

Collection

Southern Normandy

Citation

“Fougy,” A Premonstratensian Atlas, accessed October 16, 2026, https://yvonneseale.org/atlas/items/show/1106.

Geolocation

Item Relations

This Item DependentOn Item: Silly