Abbey of Faremoutiers

The abbey Notre-Dame de Faremoutiers is founded towards 620 by holy Fare.

This abbey is a Monastère doubles, the first of the kind, accessible monks and moniales. Initially called Evoriacum , it is famous in the honor of its founder.

She constitutes an important bond between the frank kingdom of Mérovingiens and the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Kent and East Anglia, in the south of England

This abbey is placed under strict the Règle of saint Colomban. The rule prohibits the meat (but authorizes poultry, eggs and fish), the monks will request six times per day, and must practice practical activities and intellectual. A school is open for the children of the village which is created around the monastery (Faremoutiers).

By its will, holy Fare bequeaths its goods to the abbey of Faremoutiers, which it places under the invocation of the Virgin Mary and Pierre saint (only the first invocation remains). The abbey knows an unquestionable radiation at the 7th century. Sédride, girl of the queen of East Anglia Héreswide, succeeds Fare as abbess.

Holy Sithred ( Sæthryth or Sédride ) is abbess until in 660.

The abbey was then directed by Rothilde (girl of Charlemagne), and of Madelgarde, then by Berthe, a girl of Lothaire Ier and by Rothilde (girl of Charles the Bald person).

See too

Sources

, p 95-97
Pierre Rich, Dictionary of the Francs: Times Mérovingiens . Editions. Bartillat, 1996. ISBN 2-84-100008-7

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