Bellevaux Abbey was a Cistercian monastery, founded in 1120 by Pons de Morimond, near the present-day Cirey

Cirey

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, Haute-Saône

Haute-Saône

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, France

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. At that time it was in Franche-Comté

Franche-Comté

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. It was suppressed in 1790 and sold in 1791. Shortly afterwards the church was demolished. 1795 the buildings were bought by Jean-Charles Pichegru.

It was a daughter house of Morimond Abbey

Morimond Abbey

Morimond Abbeyis a religious complex in Parnoy-en-Bassigny, Haute-Marne department, in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France. It was the fourth of the four great daughter abbeys of Cîteaux Abbey, of primary importance in the spread of the Cistercian Order, along with La Ferté to the south,...

. Peter of Tarentaise

Peter of Tarentaise

Peter of Tarentaise was a Roman Catholic abbot and bishop. He has been declared a saint by that church, with a feast day of May 8.-Biography:...

 died there, as he arrived at the abbey in 1174, giving it his relics. These were for a long time disputed by Tamié Abbey

Tamié Abbey

Tamié Abbey is a Cistercian monastery, located in the Bauges, Savoie, France. It was founded in 1132, as a daughter house of Bonnevaux Abbey, by Peter of Tarentaise, who was also the first abbot....

.

It had strong connections to the local nobles. Otto de la Roche

Otto de la Roche

Otto de la Roche was a Burgundian nobleman from the castle of La Roche-sur-l'Ognon, in the Franche-Comté commune of Rigney, Doubs. He joined the Fourth Crusade in 1204 and became the first Duke of Athens...

 gave Bellevaux the sacked Daphni Monastery

Daphni Monastery

Dafní or Daphní is a monastery 11 km north-west of downtown Athens in Chaidari, south of Athinon Avenue . It is situated near the forest of the same name, on the Sacred Way that led to Eleusis...

 in Greece

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 shortly after 1205.

Bellevaux Abbey was sacked in 1474 by French troops, and burned in 1636 by troops from Weimar

Weimar

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. 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

TRAPPIST

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 religious community there, which however left again at the outbreak of the 1830 Revolution. The premises were sold to private owners in 1837.