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From: John Dillon <[log in to unmask]>
> 4) Avitus of Micy (d. ca. 530). ....he later founded another monastery
near Châteaudun that later took his name...
at the foot of the "dun" on which the chateau is built, somewhere in the
present (northern?) suburb of St. Jean, unfindable by me in the '80s --the
damned thing just disappeared without a trace, as best i could make out.
ruined by the Norsemen in c. 8, restored as a convent c. 1029 [though my
memory of this event is that it was in the 1040s] which became the most
important women's house in the region.
as Bruce L. Venarde (_Women's Monasticism and Medieval Society: Nunneries in
France and England, 890-1214_, Cornell U.P., 1997) mentions here
http://books.google.com/books?id=PFEtsnDilmkC&pg=PA43&lpg=PA43&dq=saint+avit+chateaudun&source=web&ots=cAK9wZ2f2q&sig=sUWOyNtNGH9BGzlhRSzbcG2qxAY&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result#PPA43,M1
based on the article on CD in the DHGE, (XII, c. 570).
a few charters from St. Avit's of CD survive, never properly published, but
summarized by Charles Cuissard, "Sommaire de chartes de l'abbaye de Saint-Avit
de Chateaudun," Bulletin de la Societe Dunoise, IX, 1898, pp. 169-200.
out in the Beauce not far away, half way to Chartres (in Proust country), was
an important priory of the convent, with the lovely and intriguing name of
Saint-Avit-les-Guespières. (nothing much there now of early interest; toot
being ruinayed by the Huguenot, i assume.)
http://www.traveljournals.net/explore/france/map/m2095134/saint-avit-les-guespieres.html
http://ccpaysdecombray.free.fr/index3.php?d=3&sd=17
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