The Sturzelbroon Abbaye was founded by Duke Simon I, at the instigation of Saint Bernard who provided him with some monks. The habit of this prince had acquired of making a retreat there every year which brought him there in 1139.
It was observed. . . that in the cloister, near the door through which the religious enter in the church, on the right hand under an arcade, there was a mausoleum of reddish stone, on which there were sculptures in a shield, three alerions in a band, surmounted by a strip and that about this tomb we read these words: Inclitae memoriae Domini Simonis, Olim Lotharingorum Ducis arma deposita 1138, 13. Kal, Maii, hujus coenobii fundatois, cujus anima requiescat in pace. Presiden Alix speaks about it in almost the same terms but he reads another date on the epitaph: the said Duke Simon first founder lies buried in front of and very close to the portal of the said abbey with this epitaph: with the date of death being 1145. But 1138 is the correct date.
Simon I was buried without a coffin, the ground was low and marshy. They saw water in the pit which caused part of his body to float. Page 183- 185, 202 of The L'Austrasie - Revue de Metz et de Lorraine
The Sturzelbroon Abbaye was founded by Duke Simon I, at the instigation of Saint Bernard who provided him with some monks. The habit of this prince had acquired of making a retreat there every year which brought him there in 1139.
It was observed. . . that in the cloister, near the door through which the religious enter in the church, on the right hand under an arcade, there was a mausoleum of reddish stone, on which there were sculptures in a shield, three alerions in a band, surmounted by a strip and that about this tomb we read these words: Inclitae memoriae Domini Simonis, Olim Lotharingorum Ducis arma deposita 1138, 13. Kal, Maii, hujus coenobii fundatois, cujus anima requiescat in pace. Presiden Alix speaks about it in almost the same terms but he reads another date on the epitaph: the said Duke Simon first founder lies buried in front of and very close to the portal of the said abbey with this epitaph: with the date of death being 1145. But 1138 is the correct date.
Simon I was buried without a coffin, the ground was low and marshy. They saw water in the pit which caused part of his body to float. Page 183- 185, 202 of The L'Austrasie - Revue de Metz et de Lorraine
Family Members
Advertisement
Explore more
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
