Gérigny

Title

Gérigny

Also Known As

de Gerineis, de Gireniis, Gerigniacum, Gerignies, Geriniacum, Giriniacum

Dates

Founded ca. 1130; dissolved 15th c.?

Dedication

Catherine

Affiliation

Cuissy

Medieval Diocese

Reims

Circary

France; later Floreffe

History

Gérigny was founded before 1131 by Geoffroi, count of Porcien, and was at first a house of sisters. It was dependent on Cuissy. In 1199, Cuissy exchanged the site for some other land with Roger de Rozoy, lord of Chaumont. In 1219, Roger, lord of Rozoy, gave the site to the abbey of Chaumont, which established a men's priory there. This priory appears to have been in ruins by the 15th century, and the chapel was demolished ca. 1700.

Status

Women's community; later priory

Archival Sources

Reims, Archives départmentales de la Marne

2 G 948 (1159)

Bibliography

Carré, J. B. E. Notice historique sur le prieuré de Gérigny de l’ordre de Prémontré au diocèse de Reims, 1130-1789. Reims: P. Michaud, 1885.

Daras, L. “Bibliographie: Du prieuré de Gérigny (Ardennes), ordre de Prémontré, 1130-1789, par M. l’Abbé Carré.” La Cour d’honneur de Marie, 1886.

Le cercle des collectionneurs de Signy-l’Abbaye. “L’abbaye de Gérigny : vous connaissez ?” May 2011.

Noel, Albert. “Le Bienheureux Henry de Reims et la Bienheureuse Ermengarde de Roucy, de l’Ordre de Prémontré.” Bulletin du Diocèse de Reims : Revue religieuse historique et littéraire 5 (1873): 457–60, 469–73. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6361158f/f465.item.

Robert, Gaston. “Le monastère double, de Gérigny (1159).” Nouvelle revue de Champagne et de Brie 7 (1929): 56–58. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k55609993/f63.item.

Image Credit

Gérigny as shown on the Cassini Map of France, ca. 1760. David Rumsey Map Collection.

Files

Collection

France

Citation

“Gérigny,” A Premonstratensian Atlas, accessed October 16, 2026, https://yvonneseale.org/atlas/items/show/255.

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