Chartreuve

Chartreuve

Carthophorum, Carthovorum, Cartovorum, Charteuvre. Chartevre, Chartoverum, Chartovorum, Chartovra, Chartreuve-en-Tardenois, Chartreuves, Chartreve, Chartruve, Chartueuve, Chartuevre, Kartovorum

Founded 1133; dissolved 1790

Mary

Prémontré; later Beaulieu

Chartreuve was founded ca. 1130 by Eudes de Bailleul, lord of Chéry, and André de Baudement. It joined the Premonstratensian Order ca. 1140/45, and was initially a double house. Chartreuve became a commendatory abbey in 1531. Much of the monastic complex was destroyed by fire in 1650, and was rebuilt in the mid-18th century. It was suppressed at the Revolution.

The site passed into private hands, and the abbey was substantially rebuilt as a domestic residence. Most of any remains of the abbey were destroyed in World War One.

Abbots

Eudes de Bailleul, fl. 1133
Girelmus, 1134-1169
Robert, fl. ca. 1179
Guillaume Hennepaix, 1178-1185
Pierre, fl. 1192
Guillaume II, fl. 1192
Baudouin, ?-1201
Louis, 1213-1218
Eustache, 1239-1244
Robert II des Cosses, fl. 1265
G., fl. 1274
Manasses, fl. 1300
Bernard, fl. 1315
Antoine Soreit, fl. af. 1327
Jean I Chaudray, fl. 1338
Bertrand de Cuiry, fl. 1409
Jean II, fl. 1426
Thomas Lefebvre, fl. 1445
Alanus, fl. 1449
Simon Aubert, fl. 1465
Raoul de Lannois, 1516-1517
Antoine Parent, 1517-1530
Guillaume III Le Petit, 1531-?
Nicolas Guerine, fl. 1454

Abbey

Laon, Archives départementales de l'Aisne

H 1034

H 1035

8 Fi 433

8 Fi 434

8 Fi 435

Nancy, Bibliothèque Stanislas

MS 1752 (992, vol. 5), fol. 156r-160r

AD, 174-178

BOP, I: 101-102

Cottineau, I: col. 718

GC, IX: 483-485

Hugo, I: 475-482

MP, II: 493-495; III: 628

PAS: Statue; church (exterior); drawing, 19th c.

VW, 56

Postcard showing the remaining wall of the church of the abbey of Chartreuve, ca. 1918.

Oct. 2026.