page_title: Buzay Abbey
section_title: Daughter houses
hierarchical_section_title: Buzay Abbey / Daughter houses
caption_attribution_description: l'Abbaye de Ville Neufve // ordre St Bernard, en Bretagne, diocesse de Nantes
context_page_description: Buzay Abbey, dedicated to Our Lady, was a Cistercian Abbey at Rouans in Pays de la Loire, France, formerly in Brittany, founded in 1135 and dissolved in 1790.
context_section_description: From Buzay, three new Cistercian abbeys were instituted as daughter houses.
  On 1 July 1172, Buzay sent a few monks to the small Île du Pilier, north of Noirmoutier. However, the small windswept island posed so many problems for the new community that in 1205 the monks fell back on the island of Noirmoutier and founded the abbey of Our Lady the White.
  On 25 March 1200, at the request of Constance, Duchess of Brittany, monks were sent for the founding of her new Villeneuve Abbey, on land belonging to Buzay, located on the Ognon, a river flowing into the lake of Grand-Lieu, near the Châtellenie of Touffou and the village of Bignon. The monks would help to drain the surrounding marshes, with advice from engineers of the Poitevin marshes, and would also help to dig a canal between Messan and the Loire.
  In 1259, Buzay was prosperous enough to establish Prières Abbey, at the request of John I, Duke of Brittany, and the Cistercian Order.
caption: Villeneuve Abbey, in an engraving of 1695
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