Monastery Montier-en-Der Abbey
ivory diptych still in classical style, commemorating wedding linking symmachi , nicomachi ca 400; found defaced , thrown in (puteolus) @ montier-en-der. (musée de cluny)
the cartulary of montier-en-der, assembled in 1120s @ height of monastery s prestige , wealth, crucial source of information history of west francia; among genuine charters number of forgeries equally interesting claims intended support. charters bear information on popes, kings, , counts, on manorial structures , obligations of peasant tenants, , on monastic reform.
at time of wars of religion, montier-en-der supervised twelve priories, , abbey 1 of core benefices in strategy of charles, cardinal of lorraine, exercised seigneurial powers on twenty-one villages in surrounding countryside.
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