Abbey of Dalon

The abbey of Dalon is an abbey cistercian in Périgord.

Presentation

It was founded in 1114 by Géraud de Salles (or of Dirtied) († 1120) under the rule of Saint Benoit, thanks to a donation of Géraud de Lastours and his/her brother ( Golferidus of Lastours) present the day of the foundation, with Eustorge, 48e bishop of Limoges, and various lords of the area. The successor of Géraud de Salles, the Roger hermit, developed the abbey, which founded several priories and abbeys (Bonlieu, the Palais Notre-Dame, Prébenoît, Aubignac, Bœuil, Loc-God), and thus formed the Order of Dalon.

Died of Roger in 1159, the monks of Dalon kindly requested the general chapter of the Cistercian abbey of Pontigny to provide them monks instructors, because the two orders practiced the same rule of Benoît saint.

In 1162 shortly after the election of the third abbot, Amélius, Dalon finally adhered to the order Cîteaux with his/her daughters: Bœuil, the Palate, Bonlieu, Loc-God and Prébenoît. It became thus the third girl of Pontigny by taking row at the date of 1120, instead of being the seventeenth, because observing this common rule with the two observances since this time. It profited from the protection of Henri II Plantagenêt, of Aliénor of Aquitaine and Richard Lion-hearted. The famous troubadour Bertrand de Born, lord of the locality close to Hautefort withdrew himself as monk with Dalon.

Dalon had a dozen barns in Périgord and the small priory of Saint-Blaise on the commune of Milhac de Nontron.

This abbey is located today in the department of the the Dordogne, more precisely in the Canton of Excideuil, commune of Holy-Sorts. There remain about it some vestiges of which the building of the monks with his chapter house and two vaults of the right transept of the church. It is private field.

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