Gondon Abbey [SEP] religious order
Gondon Abbey
Gondon Abbey (also Gondom; ; ) is a former Cistercian monastery in Monbahus, Lot-et-Garonne, Aquitaine, France, about 21 kilometres to the north-west of Villeneuve-sur-Lot.
History.
The abbey was probably founded in 1123 with an endowment from the lords of Lauzun, as a daughter house of Cadouin Abbey, of the filiation of Pontigny. In 1147 the community became the mother house of Fontguilhem Abbey, founded in 1124, when it affiliated itself to the
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- Gourdon Abbey ("Abbaye de Gourdon, Abbaye de Léobard, or most commonly Abbaye nouvelle"), monks, diocese of Cahors (Léobard, Lot)
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