Mont-Saint-Martin

Title

Mont-Saint-Martin

Also Known As

Boani, Boena, Boeny, Boheni, Bony, Mons Sti. Martini, Mont-Saint-Martin-les-Goi, Mont-St. Martin-les-Goi, Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Saint-Martin, Notre-Dame-du-Mont-St. Martin

Dates

Founded 1118; dissolved 1790

Dedication

Martin

Affiliation

Laon

Medieval Diocese

Cambrai

Circary

Flanders

History

This community was founded 1117/1119 at Bony as an Augustinian double house. The men moved to Mont-Saint-Martin in 1136 and joined the Premonstratensian Order at around the same time. It became a commendatory abbey in 1556. Badly damaged in warfare in 1588, it was deserted between 1584 and 1598 and again from 1636 to 1664. It underwent a major reconstruction project in the mid-18th century.

The abbey was suppressed at the Revolution. It passed into private hands and was turned into a château, much of which was destroyed during World War One.

Heads of Community

Abbots

Garembertus, 1134-37
Oderannus, 1137-40
Godescalus, 1142-50
Gillebertus, 1151-74
Herbertus, 1174-96
Gerhardus de Hargival, 1197
Adam, 1197-1209
Joannes, 1210-17
Jacobus de Arras, 1220-25
G., fl. 1225
Gilles, fl. 1228
Ponsardus, 1237-39
Haymo, ca. 1240-50
Petrus I, 1264-72
Nicolaus Bachier, 1282
Richerius (or Richardus), 1283-91
Gobertus, 1299-1307
Galterus, fl. 1310
Nicolaus de Huareles, fl. 13..?
Petrus II, fl. 1332
Joannes de Montbrehain, 1338-62
Laurentius, 1436-45
Joannes de l'Ecluse, 1489-97
Thomas de l'Ecluse, 1513-24
Nicolaus de Lagrené, 1524-40

Status

Abbey

Archival Sources

Laon, Archives départementales de l'Aisne

H 1113-1116 (15th-18th c.)

Paris, Archives nationales de France

MC/ET/III/51. (1541)

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France

MS lat. 5478. (13th c.; cartulary)

Bibliography

Evans, G.R. “Godescalc of Saint Martin and the Trial of Gilbert of Poitiers.” Analecta Praemonstratensia 57 (1981): 196–209.

Gomart, Charles. “Borne de Juridiction de l’abbaye du Mont Saint-Martin.” In Etudes Saint-Quentinoises, edited by Charles Gomart, 55–58. Paris: Dumoulin, 1862. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Etudes_Saint_Quentinoises/o-gEhkwQRzkC.

Nélis, Hubert. “Inventaire de chartes sous forme de rouleau intéressant la Flandre du XIIIe siècle.” Archives, bibliothèques, et musées de Belgique : bulletin mensuel de l’Association des conservateurs d’archives, de bibliothèques et de musées 2, no. 7 (July 1924): 97–102. https://books.google.com/books?id=dZ8aAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA97.

Prioux, Stanislas. “Notes Archéologiques sur le Mont St. Martin.” Bulletin de la Société archéologique, historique et scientifique de Soissons 16 (1862): 51. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k454002v/f49.item.

Woznicki, Éric. L’abbaye du Mont-Saint-Martin. Bellicourt: Éd. Communauté de communes du pays du Vermandois, 2014.

Image Credit

Postcard showing the château of Mont-Saint-Martin, ca. 1900. Wikimedia.

Files

Collection

Flanders

Citation

“Mont-Saint-Martin,” A Premonstratensian Atlas, accessed October 16, 2026, https://yvonneseale.org/atlas/items/show/64.

Geolocation

Item Relations

This Item DependentOn Item: Laon
Item: Vermand DependentOn This Item