Longues Abbey ( French: Abbaye de Longues, Abbaye Sainte-Marie de Longues) is a former Benedictine monastery in Longues-sur-Mer, Calvados, Normandy, France. It was founded in 1168 by Hugh Wac, of a family that owned Rubercy and other lands in the Cotentin, and was generously supported by gifts from the English and Norman nobility, and from King Henry II. [1] The prominent families of Bacon of Molay and d'Argouges were particular benefactors of the abbey and several of them were buried there. [2]
From 1526 the abbey was in the hands of commendatory abbots. [1] After a long period of decline, it was finally closed in 1781 under the last commendatory abbot, Emmanuel-Louis de Cugnac, bishop of Lectoure, when its revenues were given to the seminary at Bayeux. [1]
Numerous ruins and structures remain, which have been listed at various times as monuments historiques. [3]
49°19′57″N 0°41′53″W / 49.3325°N 0.6980°W
Longues Abbey ( French: Abbaye de Longues, Abbaye Sainte-Marie de Longues) is a former Benedictine monastery in Longues-sur-Mer, Calvados, Normandy, France. It was founded in 1168 by Hugh Wac, of a family that owned Rubercy and other lands in the Cotentin, and was generously supported by gifts from the English and Norman nobility, and from King Henry II. [1] The prominent families of Bacon of Molay and d'Argouges were particular benefactors of the abbey and several of them were buried there. [2]
From 1526 the abbey was in the hands of commendatory abbots. [1] After a long period of decline, it was finally closed in 1781 under the last commendatory abbot, Emmanuel-Louis de Cugnac, bishop of Lectoure, when its revenues were given to the seminary at Bayeux. [1]
Numerous ruins and structures remain, which have been listed at various times as monuments historiques. [3]
49°19′57″N 0°41′53″W / 49.3325°N 0.6980°W