Thenailles

Title

Thenailles

Also Known As

Telonia, Tenaille, Tenaillie, Tenalie, Tenalle, Tenelle, Tenelles, Tenolia, Tenoliae, Tenolium, Thenelles, Thenolia

Dates

Founded 1130; dissolved 1790

Dedication

Mary

Affiliation

Laon

Medieval Diocese

Laon

Circary

Floreffe

History

Thenailles was founded by Barthélemy, bishop of Laon. The first brothers came from Saint-Martin de Laon. The abbey was badly damaged by warfare in the 14th and 15th centuries, with its church burned down in 1412. It became a commendatory abbey in 1539.

Thenailles underwent a programme of reconstruction work in the first half of the 18th century. It was suppressed in 1790. Most of the monastic complex was demolished in the 1790s.

Heads of Community

Abbots

Walfridus, 1130-1155
Philippe, fl. ca. 1156
Albericus, 1158-1162
Godefridus, 1164-ca. 1170
Gregorius, 1172-1199
Gobert, 1191-1201
Gervais, 1205-1209
Hatto, 1214-1219
Siger, fl. ca. 1220
Guillaume, ?-1230
Philippe II, 1230-?
Lambert, fl. 1235
Cono, 1236-1239
Jean de Vervins, fl. ca. 1240
Bartholomaeus, fl. ca. 1250
Gobert II, fl. 1255
Jean II de Rocquigny, ?-1263
Jean III de Givron, fl. 1269
Richard, fl. 1281
Gautier, fl. 1285
Gobert III de Givron, 1286-?
Nicolas, ?-1368
Siger, 1368-1376
Jacobus, fl. 1377
Lambert II, fl. 1400
Leo, ?-1409
Jean IV, fl. 1409
Jean V de Châtillon, 1412-1414
Jean VI, fl. 1430
Jacques, fl. ca. 1440
Nicolas, fl. ca. 1440
Reinaldus de Bruyères, 1454-1462
Jean VII Fossier, 1475-1499
Thiebaldus, 1499-?
Antoine d’Angleberner, 1510
Gobert IV Aleaume, 1511-1522
Raoul Amiable, 1522-1538
N. de Guise, fl. 1539
Godefridus de Lauvin, 1544-1566

Status

Abbey

Archival Sources

Bayeux, Bibliothèque municipale

MS 175

Laon, Archives départementales de l'Aisne

H 975 - H 984

Nancy, Bibliothèque municipale

MS 992 XVII 243, 327

Paris, Archives nationales de France

L//994, Dossier 12. (7 acts, 1188-1292)

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France

MS lat. 5649 (13th c.; cartulary)

Bibliography

Papillon, Léandre. “Un chapiteau du XIIe s.” La Thiérache: Bulletin de la Société archéologique de Vervins 6 (1878): 6–7. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4088731/f4.item.

Piette, Amédée. Histoire de l’abbaye de Thenailles: ordre de Prémontré. Soissons: Impr. de A. Michaux, 1878.

Image Credit

A drawing of the abbey of Thenailles, ca. 1760. Wikimedia.

Files

Collection

Floreffe

Citation

“Thenailles,” A Premonstratensian Atlas, accessed October 16, 2026, https://yvonneseale.org/atlas/items/show/237.

Geolocation

Item Relations

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