Summary Page: Former House

Name: Floreffe, B.M.V.

Circary at the Time: Floreffia

Years of Activity: 1121-1797

Gallery:  Click Here

Map: Click Here (Source:  © MapQuest  http://www.mapquest.com)

URL:  http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbaye_de_Floreffe

Monasticon Praemonstratense (II, 373)

Approximate modern location: Town on the river Sambre, west of Namur, Belgium.  

Elm-Number [See below]: 81*

Other Comments: Seat of the Circary, and from the first, an esteemed abbey - third in ranking from Prémontré. 


* This listing (and the numbers, with a few adjustments after 1995) is based on the map contained in Kaspar Elm's Norbert von Xanten: Adliger, Ordensstifter, Kirchenfürst, Wienand Verlag, Köln, 1984, page 328-329.