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Anne d'Orléans (1464 – 1491 in Poitiers) was a French abbess. She was the youngest child of Charles, Duke of Orléans, and Maria of Cleves. Her only brother became King Louis XII of France in 1498.
The Royal Abbey of Our Lady of Fontevraud or Fontevrault (in French: abbaye de Fontevraud) was a monastery in the village of Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, near Chinon, in the former French Duchy of Anjou. It was founded in 1101 by the itinerant preacher Robert of Arbrissel.
In 1189, Fontevraud became a royal necropolis, housing the tombs of Henry 2nd, Eleanor of Aquitaine and Richard the Lionheart. Over seven centuries, 36 abbesses, often drawn from high nobility, and sometimes even of royal blood, succeeded one another in running the Abbey.
Né en 1464, elle est la fille de Charles I er, duc d’Orléans, et de Marie de Clèves et la sœur de Louis XII 1. En 1478, elle devint l’abbesse de l'abbaye de Fontevraud. Comme son prédécesseur, Marie de Bretagne, elle a supervisé des réformes de l'abbaye.
Anne d’Orléans (1464-9 septembre 1491), est la vingt-sixième abbesse de l'abbaye de Fontevraud (maison-mère de l'ordre de Fontevraud), de 1478 à sa mort.
16 de jun. de 2024 · Petronilla was the first abbess in the monastic history of Fontevraud, but it is also the name given to the bell that you can see in the picture. It takes its marks on the heights of the abbey. Search for the other bells in the gardens and inside the abbey!
A place of social and sexual diversity! The Abbey was run by an abbess, who gave shelter to men and women in the four priories: Sainte-Marie for the ‘contemplatives’, Sainte-Marie-Madeleine for the lay sisters, Saint-Jean de l’Habit for the monks, and Saint-Lazare for nuns caring for lepers.
