Mondaye

Title

Mondaye

Also Known As

Mondée, Mons Auxilii

Dates

Founded ca. 1200; Premonstratensian from 1210/16; suppressed 1790; Trappist, 1815-1854; Premonstratensian, 1859-1880, 1894-1902, 1921-present

Dedication

Martin

Affiliation

La Lucerne

Medieval Diocese

Lisieux

History

Monday was founded ca. 1200 as an Augustinian community, and joined the Premonstratensian Order in 1210/16 at the instigation of Jourdain du Hommet, bishop of Lisieux, and Raoul de Percy. The abbey suffered economic issues during the 14th century, thanks to the plague and warfare, but had recovered by the beginning of the 16th century. For a time in the 1560s, the abbey was briefly abandoned because of warfare. It became a commendatory abbey in 1631. Mondaye underwent a major reconstruction program in the early 18th century. 

The abbey of Mondaye was suppressed at the revolution. For much of the first half of the 19th century, the monastic complex was home to a Trappist community. From the 1920s, it has again been home to a Premonstratensian community.

Heads of Community

Abbots

Roger I de Juaye, ?-1208
Richard, 1210-1225
Roger II, 1225-1242
Gabriel du Fay, 1266-1276
Geoffroi I, ?-1280
Geoffroi II Blason, ?-1312
Geoffroi III de Champrepus, ?-1318
Raoul d'Orival, fl. 1327
Richard II Simon, 1347-1349
Robert I Garay, 1360-1372
Geoffroi IV Randouin, 1389-1390
Robert II de Bacilly, 1417-1418
Thomas I Arnould, fl. 1421
Jean I Louys, fl. 1421
Guillaume I, fl. 1452
Pierre, 1452-1457
Guillaume II, fl. 1462
Thomas II, fl. 1465
Guillaume III le Bigot, fl. 1470
Jean II le Barberel, fl. 1482
Samson, ?-1487
Laurent de Cussy, 1487-1489
Jean III Pellecoq, ?-1494
Nicolas de la Boysaine, 1494-1497
Gilles I l'Ours, 1497-1512
Jean IV Féray, 1512-1557
Gilles II de Valognes, 1557-1562
Julien Guichard, 1562-?
Guy Habel, fl. 1570
Charles d'Harcourt, 1570s?
Jean V Bourdon, 1572-1587

Status

Abbey

Bibliography

Des Diguères, Victor. “Excursion a l’abbaye de Mondaye.” Annuaire des cinq départements de l’ancienne Normandie 43 (1877): 427–32. https://books.google.com/books?id=oZAEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA427.

Lavalley-Duperroux. “Sur l’église de Mondaye.” Bulletin de la Société des antiquaires de Normandie 2 (1861): 314–22. https://books.google.com/books?id=hjELAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA314.

Macé, J. “Le cartulaire de l’abbaye de Mondaye.” Analecta Praemonstratensia 35, no. 1–2 (1959): 79–84.

Madeleine, Godefroid. Essai historique sur l’abbaye de Mondaye de l’Ordre de Prémontré. Caen: F. LeBlanc-Hardel, 1874. http://archive.org/details/essaihistoriques00made.

Maneuvrier, Christophe, and Marion Thébault. “Sources et documents: chronique de sigillographie normande - À propos du cartulaire de Mondaye: les dépôts de sceaux de référence dans les établissements religieux normands au XIIIe siècle.” Annales de Normandie 61 (2011): 109–14.

Pelcoq, Jean, and Godefroid Madelaine. L’abbaye de Mondaye. Bayeux: René Colas, 1938.

Petit, François. “La Vierge de Mondaye.” Analecta Praemonstratensia 35 (1959): 355–57.

———. “L’abbaye de Mondaye ; glanes d’histoire.” Art de Basse-Normandie 2 (1956): 18–21.

Thébault, Marion. “Le « premier cartulaire » de l’abbaye de Mondaye.” Annales de Normandie, 2011, 25–47. https://doi.org/10.3917/annor.611.0025.

Vanuxem, Jacques. “L’abbaye de Mondaye.” Annales de Normandie 9, no. 1 (1977): 235–37. https://doi.org/10.3406/annor.1977.3822.

Image Credit

The abbey of Mondaye, 2019. Wikimedia.

Files

Collection

Southern Normandy

Citation

“Mondaye,” A Premonstratensian Atlas, accessed October 16, 2026, https://yvonneseale.org/atlas/items/show/279.

Geolocation

Item Relations

This Item DependentOn Item: La Lucerne
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