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Abbaye de Gourdon
The Sainte-Marie-de-Gourdon Abbey (Latin: Abbatia Gordonium; French also: Abbaye de Léobard or Abbaye Nouvelle) is a former Cistercian abbey in the municipality of Léobard in the Lot department in the Occitanie region in France.
The complex is located about 8 km southwest of the town of Gourdon, on a slope on the south side of the small river Céou, near the village of L’Abbaye, on a limestone spur called Pech-Gisbert (similar to Le Thoronet Abbey).
History+
The monastery was founded in 1242 as a daughter monastery of Obazine Abbey from the filiation of Cîteaux Abbey, based on a donation by Guillaume de Gourdon, the lord of Salviac, who is said to have been accused of belonging to the Cathars. An earlier attempt at founding is said to have taken place around 1150 in St-Martin-le-Désarnat. The first abbot was Odo von Ventadour. He had the surrounding wall built, the southern section of which is still almost perfectly preserved. The abbey, which was damaged in the Hundred Years' War, never gained great importance. In 1477, it had only one monk, and never more than two monks thereafter.
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