The Royal Abbey of Our Lady of Fontevraud or Fontevrault (in French: abbaye de Fontevraud) was a monastery in the village of Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, near...

an earlier monastery. The abbey was dissolved in 1177 by Henry II, who founded in its place a house of the Order of Fontevraud, known as Amesbury Priory...

Eleanor then returned to Fontevraud where she took the veil as a nun. Eleanor died on 31 March 1204 and was entombed in Fontevraud Abbey next to her husband...

attempting to poison the king. To avoid arrest, she sought refuge in Fontevraud Abbey, where she died two years later, but none of this can be confirmed...

(where he died), and the rest of his body at the feet of his father at Fontevraud Abbey in Anjou. In 2012, scientists analysed the remains of Richard's heart...

Arbrissel (c. 1045 – 1116) was an itinerant preacher, and founder of Fontevraud Abbey. He was born at Arbrissel (near Retiers, Brittany) and died at Orsan...

the Loire Anjou Touraine French regional natural park. The royal abbey of Fontevraud Saint Catherine's chapel with its lantern of the dead Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Pitié...

from the Monastery of Santa María de Sigena The royal Fontevraud Abbey Entrance at Fontevraud Abbey The former chapterhouse, now the "Spanish Chapel", at...

at the Abbey of Saint-Étienne (French: Abbaye aux Hommes) in France. Henry I was buried at Reading Abbey. Henry II was buried at Fontevraud Abbey. Richard...

Grandmont Abbey in the Limousin, but the hot weather made transporting his body impractical and he was instead buried at the nearby Fontevraud Abbey. In the...