Saint-Just-en-Chaussée

Title

Saint-Just-en-Chaussée

Also Known As

Apud Sanctum Iustum, de Sancto Justo, S. Juste en Beauvoisin, Sainct Just en Beauvoisis, Sainct Just ou pays de Beauvoisis, Saint Just en Beauvoisins, Saint Just en Beauvoisis, Saint Just en Biauvoisis, Saint Just l'abbaye, Sancti Justi Belvacen, Sanctus Justus

Dates

Founded 1146; dissolved 1790

Dedication

Mary

Affiliation

Dommartin

Medieval Diocese

Beauvais

Circary

Ponthieu

History

An early community of nuns at Saint-Just-en-Chaussée was replaced in 1119 by Augustinian canons on the initiative of Pierre de Dammartin, bishop of Beauvais. In 1146/47, the abbey joined the Premonstratensian Order. The community suffered badly in warfare during the late medieval and early modern period, and was badly damaged in fires on at least 4 occasions. Saint-Just-en-Chaussée became a commendatory abbey in 1582.

The abbey underwent major reconstruction in the mid-18th century, but was suppressed at the Revolution. In 1830, the former monastic complex was demolished and nothing remains today.

Heads of Community

Abbots

Jean I, 1146-1160
Werricus, 1164-1172
André, 1176-1182
Baudouin, ca. 1181-1184/85
Pierre, 1184-1196
Hermericus, fl. 1192
Gervais l'Anglais, 1199-1207
H., fl. 1214
Nicolas, 1215-1225
Gerard, 1225-1226
Godefroi, 1227-1241
Jean II de Hardiville, fl. 1250
Wenerannus, 1253-1260
Reinier, fl. ca. 1270
Lambert, fl. ca. 1277
Guillaume, fl. ca. 1290
Pierre II, 1292-1303
Etienne, 1328-1341
Anselme, ?-ca. 1345
Raoul de Hermes, ca. 1375-1383
Jean III d'Angevillers, fl. bef. 1395
Pierre III, 1397-1420
Enguerrand de Ruchen, ?-1476
Judocus de Castres, 1476-1484
Jean IV Cordier, 1487-1502
Antoine de Nampont, 1502-1512
Jean V de la Morlière, 1512-1522
Nicolas II Boucher, 1522-1533
Judocus II Cocquerel, 1533-1565

Status

Abbey

Archival Sources

Beauvais, Archives départementales de l'Oise

H 5736 - H 5900 (12th-18th c.)

H 12036 (16th-18th c.)

Beauvais, Bibliothèque municipale

Coll. Bucquet-Aux-Cousteaux, vol. 42, 523-536

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France

Coll. Baluze 73 (17th c.; cartulary extract)

MS français 5483 (17th c.; cartulary extract)

Bibliography

Barraud. “Fonts de Saint-Just-en-Chaussée (Oise).” Mémoires de la Société Académique d’Archéologie, Sciences et Arts du Département de l’Oise 4 (1859): 407–8. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4147009/f441.image.

L’Escalopier, Charles de. Essai sur la châtellenie et l’abbaye de Saint-Just-en-Chaussée. Paris: Vve Dondey-Dupré, 1835.

Oberste, Jörg. “Saint-Just-en-Chaussée.” In Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche, Third Edition., 9:31. Freiburg, 1993.

Pihan, Louis. Histoire de Saint-Just-en-Chaussée. Beauvais: Impr. D. Pere, 1885. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k57897804.

———. “Saint-Just-en-Chaussée, étude historique et archéologique.” Mémoires de la Société Académique d’Archéologie, Sciences et Arts du Département de l’Oise 11 (1880): 643–786. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k414707z/f654.image.

———. “Saint-Just-en-Chaussée, étude historique et archéologique (suite).” Mémoires de la Société Académique d’Archéologie, Sciences et Arts du Département de l’Oise 12 (1883): 5–119, 281–427, 609–87. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k414708b/f4.image.

Poujol de Fréchencourt, Fernand. “Rapport sur l’Histoire de St-Just-en-Chaussée, par M. l’abbé Pihan.” Bulletin de la Société des antiquaires de Picardie 16 (1888): 385–92. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k298389v/f392.item.

Files

Collection

Ponthieu

Citation

“Saint-Just-en-Chaussée,” A Premonstratensian Atlas, accessed October 16, 2026, https://yvonneseale.org/atlas/items/show/331.

Geolocation

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