Royal Saint-Peter's abbey of Jumièges

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The abbey of Notre-Dame de Jumièges () is a former Benedictine abbey founded by Saint Philibert, son of a Count franc de Vasconie around 654 on a royal tax estate in Jumièges today in the Seine-Maritime department. It applies the rule of St Benedict from the end of the seventh century, after probably following the rule of St Colomban. The Abbey, which marks the culmination of Norman monasticism in the Seine Valley, is the largest and earliest of the great Norman abbatiales. Only remained faithful to the multiplicity of shrines of the very ancient Carolingian monasticism, it is one of the key places of Norman Romanesque art, where the articulation between Carolingian architecture and Romanesque architecture is most visible.

The Abbey of Jumièges was born around 654 in a loop of the Seine by a donation from Clovis II and his holy wife Bathilde to Saint Philibert. This foundation takes place at a time when the monastic rise in Gaul, which was aroused by Saint Colomban fifty years earlier and fortified by his disciples, reaches its highest degree. The foundation intercedes between that of the abbey...