Summary Page: Former House

Name: Silly, Assumption of the B.M.V. and S. Lawrence

Circary at the Time: Normannia Australis

Years of Activity: 1151-1790

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Monasticon Praemonstratense (II, 48)

Approximate modern location: In the forest of Gouffern, near Exmes, area of Argentan, Dep. Orne, France.  There is a Silly-En-Gouffern east of Argentan, amid a group of villages all ending in 'Exmes'.  

Elm-Number [See below]: 204*

Other Comments: None. 


* 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.