Beaulieu

Title

Beaulieu

Also Known As

Bellus locus, Notre-Dame de Beaulieu-sur-Aube, S. Maria de Bello loco

Dates

Founded 1120s; Premonstratensian from 1140s; dissolved 1791.

Dedication

Mary

Affiliation

Prémontré

Medieval Diocese

Troyes

Circary

France

History

Beaulieu was founded in the 1120s by the priests Osbert and Alard as an Augustinian community, and transferred to the Premonstratensians about a generation later. It was originally a double house. The monastery was supported by the comital family of Brienne. Its collection of relics made it a popular destination for pilgrims in the Middle Ages.

Beaulieu was merged with another Premonstratensian abbey, Basse-Fontaine, in 1773. Part of the early modern cloister survives, and is today in private hands.

Heads of Community

Abbots

Eudes, 1128/38-1146?
Raoul, 1145-1154
Jean de Brienne, 1156-1182
Etienne, fl. 1185
Nicolas, fl. 1188
Jean II de Brienne, 1188-1190
Raoul II, 1190-1195, 1197-1198
Hugues, 1196-1197
Gui, 1202
Jean III, 1202-1203
Robert, 1205
Girard, 1205-?
Garnier, fl. 1213
Guillaume, fl. 1216
Reginald, fl. 1217
Gui II, 1221-1223
Guillaume II, fl. 1226
Gui III, fl. 1227
Pierre, ?-1230
Gui IV, 1236-1239
Thomas, fl. 1241
Nicolas II, 1242-1243
Jean IV, 1250-1265
Pierre II, 1274-1281
Gerard, fl. 1286
Gui V, 1291-1294
Jean V de Vendeuve, 1297-1324
Raoul?, fl. 1299?
Gui VI?, 1303-1310?
Nicolas III, 1374-1391
Pierre III de Cambrai, fl. ca. 1393?
Jean VI de Joncreuil, fl. ca. 1400
Gilbert, fl. ca. 1400
Pierre IV, fl. 1442
Alanus le Maronier, fl. 1464
Jacques Perrin, fl. 1469
Ferry de la Ruelle, fl. 1474
Nicolas IV de Joncreuil, fl. 1477
Pierre V Rousseau, fl. 1492
Philippe Marchant, 1496-1514
Jean VII Huchier, 1514-1527
Desiderius Silvestre, 1528-1557

Status

Abbey

Archival Sources

Nancy, Bibliothèque Stanislas

MS 1750 (992), fols. 281r-314r
MS 1769 (995), fols. 177r-184r

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France

Coll. Duchesne 76, 75-82. (Cartulary extracts, 17th c.)

Troyes, Archives départmentales de l'Aube

2 H 48 (Cartulary)

Bibliography

Georges, Etienne. “Chronique [Abbaye de Beaulieu dans l’Aube].” Revue de Champagne et de Brie 7 (1879): 314–18. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6568772f/f316.item.
———. “Quelques comtes de Brienne et l’abbaye de Beaulieu, d’après les pièces originales.” Annuaire de l’Aube 45, no. 2 (1880): 3–22. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5724515n/f393.item.
Plouvier, Martine. “L’abbaye Notre-Dame et Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Basse-Fontaine [commune de Brienne-la-Vieille]. L’abbaye Notre-Dame de Beaulieu [commune de Trannes].” In Actes officiels du 39e colloque du Centre d’études et de recherches prémontrées. Guerres, catastrophes et calamités. Troyes, 2013, 143–58. Laon: C.E.R.P., 2018.
Roserot, Alphonse. “Les abbayes du département de l’Aube: Abbayes de Bar-sur-Aube (Saint-Nicolas), Basse-Fontaine et Beaulieu. Additions et corrections au Gallia Christiana, Tomes IV et XII.” Bulletin historique et philologique du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 1887, 290–91; 296–305. https://books.google.com/books?id=1bU5AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA290.

Image Credit

Beaulieu Abbey, ca. 1930s. PAS.

Last Updated

Oct. 2026.

Files

Collection

France

Citation

“Beaulieu,” A Premonstratensian Atlas, accessed October 16, 2026, https://yvonneseale.org/atlas/items/show/203.

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Item Relations

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