Fermaincourt

Title

Fermaincourt

Also Known As

Firma curia, Firmincourt, Firmini curtis, Pézeris

Dates

Founded 1185; Premonstratensian from 1279; suppressed 1791

Dedication

Mary of the Seven Joys

Affiliation

Braine

Medieval Diocese

Chartres

Circary

France

History

In 1185, Robert II, count of Dreux, founded a chapel at Fermaincourt which he gave to the Augustinian abbey of Saint-Vincent-aux-Bois. In 1189, he elevated the chapel into a priory. In 1279 his descendant Robert IV gave the priory to the Premonstratensians of Braine.

The priory was suppressed and the property sold in 1791.

Status

Priory

Reference

Cottineau, I: col. 1124

VW, 86

Bibliography

Lelièvre, J. “Documents sur le prieuré de Notre-Dame des Sept Joies de Fermaincourt.” Mémoires de la Société archéologique d’Eure-et-Loir 22 (1964): 145–64. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9770194v/f154.item.

Leménestrel, Charles. “Eglise et chapelle de Fermaincourt.” In Archives du Diocèse de Chartres, edited by Charles Métais, Vol. 2. Chartres, 1897. https://books.google.ie/books?id=AIJNAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA30-IA35.

Image Credit

Postcard showing the Chapelle de Fermaincourt, ca. 1910.

Files

Collection

France

Citation

“Fermaincourt,” A Premonstratensian Atlas, accessed October 16, 2026, https://yvonneseale.org/atlas/items/show/470.

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