Vaucelles Abbey: Social, Political, and Ecclesiastical Relationships in the Borderland Region of the Cambrésis, 1131-1300

398 Pages·2017·2.447 MB·English

by  Kathryn E. Salzer

Vaucelles Abbey
MEDIEVAL MONASTIC STUDIES
General Editors
Janet Burton, University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Karen Stöber, Universitat de Lleida
Editorial Board
Frances Andrews, University of St Andrews
David Austin, University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Edel Bhreathnach, Discovery Programme, Dublin
Megan Cassidy-Welch, Monash University
James Clark, Bristol University
Albrecht Diem, Syracuse University
Marilyn Dunn, University of Glasgow
Sarah Foot, Oxford University, Christ Church
Paul Freedman, Yale University
Alexis Grélois, Université de Rouen
Martin Heale, University of Liverpool
Emilia Jamroziak, University of Leeds
Kurt Villads Jensen, Syddansk Universitet
William Chester Jordan, Princeton University
József Laszlovszky, Central European University Budapest
Julian Luxford, University of St Andrews
Colmán Ó Clabaigh, Glenstal Abbey
Tadhg O’Keeffe, University College Dublin
Jens Röhrkasten, University of Birmingham
Antonio Sennis, University College London
Orri Vésteinsson, University of Iceland
Volume 2
Vaucelles Abbey
Social, Political, and
Ecclesiastical Relationships
in the Borderland Region
of the Cambrésis, 1131–1300
by
Kathryn E. Salzer
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D/2017/0095/9
ISBN: 978-2-503-55524-9
e-ISBN: 978-2-503-56960-4
DOI: 10.1484/M.MMS-EB.5.111757
Printed on acid-free paper
Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgements ix
List of Abbreviations xi
Place Names and Proper Names xii
Introduction xiii
Chapter 1. Historiographical Context 1
Chapter 2. Physical Location and Politics: The County
of the Cambrésis, the Diocese of Cambrai, and Vaucelles 49
Chapter 3. Cistercian Economic Practices
and the Agricultural Foundation of Vaucelles 89
Chapter 4. Gift Patrons and Resultant Interactions 137
Chapter 5. Consolidation and Conflict 193
Chapter 6. Cistercian Relationships 253
Chapter 7. Conclusions 295
Bibliography 315
Index of Manuscripts 349
General Index 353

List of Illustrations
Figures
Figure 1. Vaucelles’ surviving perimeter tower.
Late fourteenth– early fifteenth century............................... 7
Figure 2. Seal of Bishop Guy of Cambrai. Lille, AD Nord,
MS 28 H 29/909. 1238. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Figure 3. Cartulary copy of monogram of Emperor
Frederick I Barbarossa. Lille, AD Nord, MS 28 H 96, fol. 24v.
Late thirteenth–early fourteenth century............................. 14
Figure 4. Portion of a diploma by King Louis IX.
Lille, AD Nord, MS 28 H 4/95. 1256. .............................170
Figure 5. Charter authored by Abbot Radulf of Clairvaux.
Lille, AD Nord, MS 37 H 118/610A. 1228. ........................211
Maps
Map 1. Vaucelles, its locality, and some of its granges. ....................xiv
Map 2. Archdiocese of Reims in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. ..... 62
Map 3. Vaucelles and other regional Cistercian houses...................270
viii list of iLLUSTRATIONS
Tables
Table 1. Change in population at Vaucelles ............................121
Table 2. Authorial patron(s) involved in the Vaucelles’
twelfth-century charters ..........................................141
Table 3. Named scribes in the Vaucelles’ twelfth-century economic
transactions .....................................................142
Table 4. Transactions concerning the consolidation
of Baudival Grange, 1133–1200...................................198
Table 5. Twelfth-century Cistercian Abbots as witnesses for Vaucelles.....261
Table 6. Twelfth-century usages of ordo or institutio
in Vaucelles’ charters .............................................264
Table 7. Examples of thirteenth-century usages
of ordo and institutio involving Vaucelles............................266