Summary Page: Former House
Name: Floreffe, B.M.V.
Circary at the Time: Floreffia
Years of Activity: 1121-1797
Map: Click
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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.