Tamié Abbey [SEP] religious order
Tamié Abbey
Tamié Abbey ("Abbaye de Tamié", or "Abbaye Notre-Dame-de-Tamié") is a Cistercian monastery, located in the Bauges mountain range in the Savoie region of France. It was founded in 1132, as a daughter house of Bonnevaux Abbey, by Peter of Tarentaise, who was also the first abbot.
It continues as a Trappist community of 30 monks, famous for its cheese, Abbaye de Tamié.
Sources and external links.
- Tamié Abbey website
were for a long time disputed by Tamié Abbey.
It had strong connections to the local nobles. Otto de la Roche gave Bellevaux the sacked Daphni Monastery in Greece shortly after 1205.
Bellevaux Abbey was sacked in 1474 by French troops, and burned in 1636 by troops from Weimar. All the existing buildings were erected by the last abbot Louis Albert de Lezay-Marnésia, bishop of Évreux between 1762 and 1788.
Eugene Huvelin (d. 1828) bought it in 1817, and installed a Trappist religious community there