Prieuré de Jully-les-Nonnains

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The Priory of Jully-les-Nonnais, located in the municipality of Jully, Yonne, is a monastery of Benedictine nuns founded in 1115 by Count Milon II.

History: Ombeline and other women from the entourage of Saint Bernard de Clairvaux had the desire to enter a monastery into religion. They decided to found a priory of women who would be dependent on the mother abbey, Molesme. Milon II of Bar made a donation of his castle of Jully with all his outbuildings and the parish of Jully; This castle was built by his elder Milon, Count of Tonnerre in 987. Between 1113 and 1115, although under the authority of the monks of Molesme, the nuns adopted the Clunisian organization. In 1125, following this example, a monastery of Cistercians was founded in Tart, near Citeaux. The charter was ratified by Joceran, bishop of Langres, and by a papal bubble of Eugene III on December 19, 1145. Molesme had delegated four monks to manage and supervise the abbey, this tutelage caused numerous conflicts between the parties that were brought to the attention of various popes. The Hundred Years War weakening the temporal and spiritual of the abbey, the community...