Bíňa

Title

Bíňa

Also Known As

Baen, Been, Béen, Bény, Bin, Byn

Dates

Founded by 1217; dissolved 1543

Dedication

Mary

Affiliation

Váradhegyfok

Medieval Diocese

Esztergom

Circary

Hungary

History

Bíňa was founded before 1217 by Amadé (or Omodej), member of the Bényi branch of the Hontpázmány family. His son, István I, was also a major patron of the priory and was buried there. It was destroyed in 1543 by Ottoman forces.

In the 1560s, the property was given to the Jesuits. The priory's church became the local parish church, but was destroyed in 1945.

Heads of Community

Priors

Stephanus, fl. 1313
Symon, fl. 1445

Status

Priory

Archival Sources

Budapest, Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára

Q 316, no. 13842. (1445)

Bibliography

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Henszlmann, Imre. “A kis-bényi román izlésű egyház.” Archaeologiai Közlemények 3 (1863): 1–32. http://real.mtak.hu/34659/.
Piffl, Alfréd. “K rekonštrukcii kostola v Bíni.” Pamiatky a múzeá 1, no. 4 (1952): 55–57.
Pomfyová, Bibiana, Marián Samuel, and Henrieta Žažová. “Stredoveká sakrálna architektúra v Bíni : (sumarizácia, korekcia a doplnenie súčasných poznatkov).” Archaeologia historica 38, no. 1 (2013): 271–90. https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/handle/11222.digilib/128318.
Taliga, István. “Bény - a volt premontrei templom.” Irodalmi Szemle, no. 3 (1975): 233–34.
Žažová, Henrieta. “Premonštrátsky kláštor Blahoslavenej Panny Márie v Bíni.” Studia Historica Tyrnaviensia 15 (2012): 44–67.
———. “Szemelvények a bozóki, a bényi, a sági és a turóci monostorok történetéből.” In 900 éves a premontrei rend : tanulmányok a rend magyarországi történetéről, kulturális és művelődéstörténeti jelentőségéről, edited by Anna Kara and Ágnes Kusler, 45–52. Gödöllő: Magyar Premontrei Cirkária, 2022.

Image Credit

Exterior of parish church of Bíňa, 2006. Wikimedia.

Last Updated

Oct. 2026.

Files

Collection

Hungary

Citation

“Bíňa,” A Premonstratensian Atlas, accessed October 16, 2026, https://yvonneseale.org/atlas/items/show/221.

Geolocation

Item Relations

This Item DependentOn Item: Váradhegyfok