Acre

Title

Acre

Also Known As

Accaron, Accon, Akkon, St. Jean d'Acre, St. Samuel de Ptolemais

Dates

Founded by 1180s; dissolved 1291

Dedication

John; Samuel

Affiliation

Unknown

Medieval Diocese

Jerusalem?

History

The abbey of St. Samuel at Acre became home to Premonstratensian brothers who had fled from other houses in the region which had been destroyed in 1187. Its internal history is poorly documented.

In 1291, the Mamluk Sultan Al-Ashraf Khalil captured the monastery and put to death the abbot, Égide de Marle, and more than 20 other members of the community. 

Heads of Community

Abbots

Égide de Marle, ?-1291

Status

Abbey

Bibliography

Geudens, M. De orde van Premonstreit in ’ t Oosten. Tongerlo: Drukkerij der Abdij, 1913.
———. “L’Ordre de Prémontré en Palestine et en Cypre.” Revue de l’Ordre de Prémontré et ses Missions 16 (1914): 35–39, 49–53. https://books.google.com/books?id=9F9SgVZhSNsC&newbks=1&pg=RA1-PA35.
Hiestand, Rudolf. “Bernhard von Clairvaux, Norbert von Xanten und der lateinische Osten.” In Vita Religiosa im Mittelalter. Festschrift für Kaspar Elm zum 70. Geburtstag, edited by Franz J. Felten and Nikolas Jaspert, 301–19. Berliner Historische Studien 31. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1999.
Jotischky, Andrew, and Bernard Hamilton. “The Premonstratensian Canons.” In Latin and Greek Monasticism in the Crusader States, 150–59. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139016230.005.
Slack, Corliss Konwiser. “The Premonstratensians in the Crusader Kingdoms in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries.” Analecta Praemonstratensia 67 (1991): 207–31.
———. “The Premonstratensians in the Crusader Kingdoms in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries.” Analecta Praemonstratensia 68 (1992): 76–110.
Zöller, Wolf. “Premontre und Palästina. Die Norbertiner und das Heilige Land im Hochmittelalter.” In Mit Bibel und Spaten. 900 Jahre Prämonstratenser-Orden, 179–96. Halle: Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 2021.

Image Credit

Plan of Acre by Pietro Vesconte, ca. 1325. British Library, Add. MS 27376.

Last Updated

Oct. 2026.

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Citation

“Acre,” A Premonstratensian Atlas, accessed October 16, 2026, https://yvonneseale.org/atlas/items/show/422.

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