Maubeuge Abbey

Mauberge Abbey was a Benedictine cloister at Maubeuge, in northern France now close to the border with Belgium. It was founded around 661 by Aldegonde.France Guide - Department du Nord : MaubeugeSuzanne Fonay Wemple, Women in Frankish Society: Marriage and the Cloister, 500 to 900 (1981), p. 162. There was a convent there until 1791. The initial foundation was a double monastery (for men and women).
Aldegonde was abbess there until 684. Later Hildoard, bishop of Cambrai, conveyed her relics there.in French. Her immediate successors were her nieces, Aldetrudis being the second abbessLatin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
Amalberga of Maubeuge joined Maubeuge later in the seventh century.
Maubeuge was made a royal abbey in 864, under the Treaty of Meersen dividing LotharingiaJo Ann McNamara, Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns Through Two Millennia (1996), p. 164.. In the eleventh century the abbess was a powerful local figureGerda Lerner, The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-seventy (1994), p. 25.. 
==Abbesses==
* Aldegonde, (661 - 684 †), 
* Aldetrude, (684) 
* Madelberte, (? -705 † )
* Théotrade, (? - 935 †), 
* Ansoalde, ( 1012), 
* Guiscende, 1106
* Fredescente, 1106 
* Chrestienne, 1138 
* Frehesecende, 1149
* Liduide, (1171), during a vacancy
* Chrestienne or Christine, 1173
* Ermengarde, 1175 
* Emme, (1177 - 1202)
* Eusile, 1213 
* Eusile, ( 1235 - 1245)), 
* Marguerite de Fontaine, ( 1247 - 1278))
* Elizabeth, ( 1278 - 1292),
* Béatrix de Faukemont, ( 1292 - 1339)
* Marie de Faukemont, ( 1351 - 1371)
* Gertrude de Trazegnies, ( 1381 - 1429)
* Marguerite de Gavre, called d'Hérimez, (1429 - 1443 †)
* Péronne de Landas, ( 1444 - 1467)
* Iolende de Gavre, (1468 - 1482)
* Antoinette de Hénin-Liénard, called de Fontaine, ( 1483)
* Michelle de Gavre, ( 1507 - 1547)
* Françoise de Nouvelle, (1548 - 1557 †)
* Marguerite de Hinckart, (1558 - 1578 †)
* Antoinette de Sainzelle, ( 1581 - 1596)
* Christine de Bernaige, ( 1599 - 1624)
* Bonne de Haynin, ( 1625 - 1643)
* Marie de Noyelles, (1644 - 1654 †)
* Marguerite d’Oignies, 1655 
* Ferdinande de Bernaige, (1660 - 1669)
* Anne-Chrétienne de Beaufort, (1672 - 1698)
* Claire-Hyacinthe de Noyelles, ( 1699 - 1719) 
* Izabelle-Philippine de Hornes, ( 1719 - 1741)
* Marie Thérèse Charlotte de Croï, ( 1741 - 1774)
* Adrienne-Florence de Lannoy, ( 1775 - 1791)
==References==
*Isabel Moreira (2000), Dreams, Visions, and Spiritual Authority in Merovingian Gaul, Appendix B, The Earliest Vitae of Aldegund of Maubeuge
==External links==
*Towards a Prosopography of the 'Maubeuge Cycle' Saints (PDF)
*The chapter, Maubeuge website 
fr:Liste des abbesses de Maubeuge
Category:Christian monasteries in France