Until the French Revolution, the abbey of Marmoutier owned numerous estates in France, as well as in England. A list drawn up in the 17th century shows almost 200 dependencies, including five in England. The vast majority of these were priories, but the monks of Marmoutier also owned farms and mills close to their abbey, to ensure supplies.
The abbey's possessions in France
Department of Aisne
Department of Aube
Department of Calvados
Département of Cher
- prieuré Saint-Julien de Bourges
- priory of Saint-Martin-des-Champs de Bourges
- priory of Saint-Palais
Department of Côtes-d'Armor
Department of Eure
- priory of Saint-Ouen de Gisors
- Grange-l'Abbé de Vesly seigneury.
Department of Eure-et-Loir
Department of Finistère
Department of Gironde
Department of Ille-et-Vilaine
Department of Indre-et-Loire
- Domaine de la Roche-Baudouin at Athée-sur-Cher
- Moulin du Lée, Cangey
- Champigny-sur-Veude priory
- Ferme de Couleur, Chanceaux-sur-Choisille
- Lavaré Priory in Fondettes
- Priory of Louroux
- Prieuré de Saint-Venant de Luynes
- Blondellerie farm in Monnaie
- Bourdigal seigneury in Monnaie
- Bourellerie farm in Monnaie
- métairie des Champs in Monnaie
- métairie de la Chèvrerie in Monnaie
- métairie de Corçay in Monnaie
- Saint-Jean de Monnaie chapel
- seigneury of Sentier in Monthodon
- domaine d'Oie-Blanche in Montlouis-sur-Loire
- priory of Négron in Nazelles-Négron
- fief of Neuville-sur-Brenne
- seigneury of Vauléart in Nouzilly
- Saint-Pierre church, Parçay-Meslay
- Chizay farm, Parçay-Meslay
- Meslay farm, Parçay-Meslay
- seigneury of Parçay, Parçay-Meslay
- Pécaudière farm, Parçay-Meslay
- prieuré Saint-Loup de Rillé
- Notre-Dame de Rivière priory
- closerie de Montauran in Rochecorbon
- Bezay farm, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire
- du Fresne farm, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire
- moulin de Garot, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire
- Haye-Bodin farm, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire
- moulin de Neuil, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire
- fief de Berneçay, Saint-Quentin-sur-Indrois
- Domaine de Chahaigne, Semblançay
- Semblançay priory
- Hérissière farm in Sonzay
- priory of Sonzay
- priory of Tavant
- Saint-Barthélemy chapel and farm in Tours
- Chambrerie farm, Tours
- Maison de Foncher, Tours
- La Fontaine farm, Tours
- Grange-Saint-Martin fiefdom, Tours
- Lavanderie estate, Tours
- Milletière farm, Tours
- Sainte-Radegonde tithe, Tours
- Rambourg estate, Tours
- Domaine des Rochettes, Tours
- Saint-Pierre-de-Rome house, Tours
- Rougemont enclosure, Tours
- Sapaillé farm, Tours
- prieuré des Sept-Dormants in Tours
- fief du Lavoir, Veigné.
Department of Loir-et-Cher
Department of Loire-Atlantique
Department of Loiret
Department of Maine-et-Loire
Department of Manche
Department of Marne
Department of Mayenne
Department of Morbihan
Department of Oise
Department of Orne
Department of Pas-de-Calais
Department of Sarthe
City of Paris
- prieuré Notre-Dame-des-Champs
- prieuré Saint-Germain de Villepreux.
Department of Seine-et-Marne
Department of Yvelines
Department of Somme
Department of Vendée
- prieuré Saint-Nicolas de Brem-sur-Mer
- Saint-Pierre-du-Puy-Belliard priory Chantonnay
- priory of Commequiers
- prieuré Saint-Jean-l'ÃÂvangéliste de Fontaines
- prieuré Saint-Etienne de La Roche-sur-Yon
- prieuré Saint-Saturnin de Sigournais
- prieuré Notre-Dame des Treize-Vents.
Department of Vienne
Possessions not geographically located
Due to a lack of concordant sources or possible transcription errors in toponyms, the following possessions in France could not be precisely located.
The abbey's possessions in England
Annexes
Archives
The archives départementales d'Indre-et-Loire (Indre-et-Loire departmental archives) hold a parchment-bound in-4ð vellum register, comprising 46 sheets written on the acts of visits made by Jean de Mauléon to 90 priories dependent on his abbey from 1316 to 1325. Another register gives copies of the leases granted on the priories dependent on the abbey from 1719 to 1767.
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