Maubuisson Abbey

Maubuisson Abbey from the south

Maubuisson Abbey (French: Abbaye de Maubuisson) was a Cistercian nunnery at Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône, in the Val-d'Oise department of France, on the north-western subburbs of Paris.

History

The abbey was founded in 1236 by Blanche of Castile. She was maybe buried there in 1252.^[1] The abbey thrived financially under royal patronage until the Hundred Years War.

In the fifteenth century the nuns twice supported rival abbesses.

After a century of decline the abbey was suppressed before the French Revolution in 1787 on order of the King Louis XVI.

Burials

The following women have tombs here.

• (Maybe) Blanche of Castile (d. 1252)^[2]
• Catherine of Courtenay (d.1307)^[2]
• Bonne of Bohemia (d.1349)^[2]

Notes

1. Klaniczay, page 236
2. {FR} Revue archéologique Juillet-Decembre 1907, Volume 4; Volume 9, ed. G. Perrot and S. Reinach, (Ernest Leroux, 1907), 448-449.

References

• Klaniczay, Gábor. (2002). Holy rulers and blessed princesses: dynastic cults in medieval central Europe. Cambridge University Press.
• Archaeological excavations made in 1979 by the Service Archéologique du Val d'Oise (SDAVO)

Coordinates: 49°02′46″N 2°07′00″E / 49.04611°N 2.11667°E