Otsantz

Title

Otsantz

Also Known As

Auxauns, Orzantz, Otxans

Dedication

Mary Magdalene

Affiliation

Lahonce

Medieval Diocese

Bayonne

Circary

Gascony

History

A priory whose history is obscure. It was dependent on the Premonstratensian house of Lahonce, according to Roland Moreau and Norbert Backmund, although Jean Fourcade described it as Benedictine and Benoît Duvivier believed that it was only ever a private chapel.

The site is today in private hands and has been restored from a ruinous state in recent years by the Fondation René Clement.


Status

Priory

Reference

MP, III: 188

Bibliography

Duvivier, Benoît. “La chapelle Ste-Madeleine d’Otsantz, Ustaritz (Pyrénées atlantiques). Etude architecturale et archéologique,” 2003. https://fondationreneclement.fr/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/ensemble-sauf-grande.pdf.

Duvivier, Benoît, and Marie Mendiboure. “Ustaritz: La Chapelle d’Otsantz.” Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles Aquitaine Service Régional de l’Archéologie Bilan Scientifique, 2003, 155–56. https://www.culture.gouv.fr/Media/medias-creation-rapide-ne-pas-supprimer/bsr_drac_aquitaine_2003.pdf.

Duvoisin, C. “Notice sur la Chapelle de Sainte-Magdeleine située à la commune d’Ustaritz.” Bulletin de la Société des sciences, lettres et arts de Pau, 1841, 209–14. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k34250n/f215.item.

L’association Culture et Patrimoine Senpere. “La chapelle Sainte Madeleine d’Otsanz: Légendes, traditions, déshérence et résurrection.” Buruxkak, June 2020. https://cultureetpatrimoinesenpere.fr/buruxkak/images/Buruxkak15.pdf.

Image Credit

Chapel of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine, Otsanz, 2024. Wikimedia.

Files

Collection

Gascony

Citation

“Otsantz,” A Premonstratensian Atlas, accessed October 16, 2026, https://yvonneseale.org/atlas/items/show/1212.

Geolocation

Item Relations

This Item DependentOn Item: Lahonce