The Fontevraud Abbey is located there. The Fontevraud Abbey (or Fontevrault Abbey) is located in the village of Fontevraud-lAbbaye, near Chinon, in Anjou, France. ...
Romanesque chevet of the abbatial church of Fontevraud.
The Abbey of FONTEVRAUD (Maine-et-Loire) is where the last French nobles of the first Angevin dynasty, who gained reknown as the first 'Plantagenêts' kings and queens of England, were buried.
The Order of Fontevraud was founded in 1099 and consisted as a group of monasteries: Saint Marie housed nuns; Saint Lazare lepers; Saint Benoit the sick; La Madeleine was for women considered as social outcasts ['fallen women']; and Saint Jean de l'Habit housed the monks.
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