Mortemer Abbey

France / Haute-Normandie / Lisors /
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L'Abbaye de Mortemer) is a former Cistercian monastery in the Forest of Lyons between the present Lyons-la-Forêt and Lisors, some 34 km (21 miles) southeast of Rouen in the department of Eure.It was originally built in 1134 on land gifted to the Cistercians by Henry I of England. The stagnant water of the drainage lake, dug out by the monks to dry up the marshy-land around the quick running Fouillebroc stream, was called "dead mere", "dead pond" - in modern French "morte mare" - and gave the monastery its name. The monks constructed what was then one of the largest Cistercian monastery in the world.
by 1790, when it was dissolved in the course of the French Revolution, only five monks remained.
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Coordinates:   49°22'11"N   1°28'57"E
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