medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: John Dillon <[log in to unmask]>
> 2) Leobinus of Chartres (d. after 552).
> L.'s cult spread fairly widely in France but is centered on Chartres and
Perche.
The Perche (Le Perche) is, of course, a region (not a city), west of Chartres.
Still a quite rural area (in parts), wooded, famous for these magnificent
creatures:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:PercheronDraftHorse.jpg
http://www.vt-fcgs.org/leperche.html :
"It has never been an official Province or a Departement of France. It was
created in 1115 when the comte of Mortagne was combined with the seigneuries
of Nogent and Belleme. The main city is Mortagne."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perche
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_of_Perche
> and one of his twelfth-/seventeenth-century church at Brou (Eure-et-Loir),
where he is said to have been abbot:
> http://tinyurl.com/ywe3od
i've never been inside that one and didn't realise that it has 12th c. bits
(if, indeed, it does).
in any event, the ancient Benedictine house at Brou was, apparently, quite
important in the region, destroyed (i believe) by the Vikings in the later 9th
c.
i'm not sure that the present church in Brou church is even on the site of
Lubin's monastery.
Brou is southwest of Chartres, almost in the Perche,
http://www.maplandia.com/france/centre/eure-et-loir/chateaudun/brou/
just beyong Illiers-Combray, which is Proust country
http://rail-et-lettres.blog4ever.com/blog/lirarticle-51972-127083.html
no documents survive from Lubin's abbey, but charters (from at least the 11th
c. on) concerning the priory of St. Peter's of Chartres there have been
published in the Cartulaire of that abbey
http://books.google.com/books?id=J60JAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PR276&lpg=RA1-PR276&dq=brou+abbey+lubin&source=web&ots=3F8ufrZp89&sig=SLJGZnWrbioW-5aW5A7tjfzNtFM&hl=en
typically, GoogleBooks didn't bother to scan the second volume of that
cartulary, so we don't have access there to the index of the thing.
but there is an edition of the earliest (late 13th c.) Pouillé of the
diocese, which lists all the churches in it, the number of parishioners, whom
the church "belonged" to, their value (yearly income?) and their "patron."
they are arranged by the 26 "deanries," one of which was the _decanatus
Braiocensi_.
from this it appears that there were at least 30 churches in the 13th c.
diocese under the vocable of St. Lubin, including Brou (duh), Rambouillet,
Voves and a bunch of places i've never even heard of.
those Pouillés are really very useful documents, btw.
c
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