Abbey Notre-Dame de Carnoët

The Abbey Notre-Dame de Carnoët or Saint-Maurice de Carnoët is old a Abbaye cistercian on the edges of the Laïta in Clohars-Carnoët, in the diocese of Quimper, founded between 1170 and 1177.

In 1170 the duke Conan IV gave to the monks cistercians Abbaye of Langonnet several villages located near the forest of Carnoët to establish a community there. Maurice Duault of Croixanvec (future Holy Maurice), then abbot of the abbey of Langonnet, founded there in 1177 close to banks of Laïta an abbey called Notre-Dame de Carnoët, of which he was the abbot until his death in 1191. The abbey will take later the name of abbey Saint Maurice de Carnoët.

There does not remain today any more but the chapter house of the 13th century.

External bonds

  • the Abbey Notre-Dame de Carnoët

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