Summary Page: Former House

Name: Sarrance, B.M.V.

Circary at the Time: Gasconia

Years of Activity: 1140/50-1791

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

Monasticon Praemonstratense (III, 196)

Approximate modern location: At the foot of the Pyrennes about 16 km south of Oloron, Dep. Basses-Pyrenees, France. 

Elm-Number [See below]: 151*

Other Comments: This house became a parish church.  Ruins of the monastery survive to this day. 

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* 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.