Commandery of Libdeau

Commandery of Libdeau
Commanderie de Libdeau
Chapel of the commandery of Libdeau
Location within France
Etymology	liberum donum (Latin : free gift)
General information
Architectural style	Commandery, a medieval monastery of the Knights Hospitaller
Classification	Registered as Monument historique[1]
Town or city	Toul
Country	France
Coordinates	48.713741°N 5.919718°E / 48.713741; 5.919718
Construction started	12th century
Website
https://www.libdeau.fr/

The Commandery of Libdeau is a former Knights Templar commandery, founded before 1190.[2] It is at Toul, in Lorraine, in the present Grand Est region of France.

History

It became a Knights Hospitaller commandery following the dissolution of the Order of the Temple in 1312 by Pope Clement V at the Council of Vienne.[3]

During the French Revolution, it was nationalized by the state and sold as a bien national in July 1794.[3]

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  General view of Libdeau
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  Side view of the chapel
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  Carved portal of Libdeau
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  Estate of Libdeau (land terrier)

Buildings

The only remaining buildings of the commandery of Libdeau are the gothic chapel,[2] at Libdeau dating from the first quarter of the 13th century, and a 17th-century townhouse situated in the city of Toul.[4]

The gothic portal of the chapel and several ledger stones coming from Libdeau have been kept since the 1960s at the Palace of the Dukes of Lorraine, home of the Musée Lorrain in Nancy.[5]

The other buildings of the commandery were rebuilt after the Thirty Years' War and are now used for housing and farming.[6]

Protection

The chapel and its plot of land have been registered[1] as French national heritage since 1995.

An association has launched a rescue and renovation scheme since 2011, with the support, among many other members and contributors, of the French heritage foundations La Sauvegarde de l'Art français[7] and Fondation du Patrimoine.[8]

Literature

• Michel Henry, Les ordres militaires en Lorraine, Éditions Serpenoise, 2006, 354 p. (ISBN 978-2-8769-2706-3).
• Pierre Simonin, « Quatre chapelles du Temple en Lorraine », Le Pays Lorrain, vol. 73, n° 1, 1992, p. 15-25.
• Pierre Simonin, « L'ancienne chapelle des Templiers de Libdeau », Études Touloises, vol. 61, 1992, p. 21-25.
• Henri Lepage, « Notice sur quelques établissements de l'ordre de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem situés en Lorraine : IX. Commanderie de Libdeau et de Toul », Annuaire administratif, statistique, historique et commercial de la Meurthe, 1853, p. 61-64.

See also

• Knights Hospitaller

References

1. "Commanderie des Templiers de Libdeau" (in French). French ministry of culture. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
2. "Commanderie des Templiers de Libdeau" (in French). Monumentum. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
3. Nicolas Bonne. "La chapelle de la commanderie de Libdeau" (PDF) (in French). Études touloises. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
4. "Maison dite des Chevaliers de Malte" (in French). Monumentum. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
5. Mission Stéphane Bern. "Chapelle templière de Libdeau à Toul" (in French). Fondation du Patrimoine. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
6. "La ferme de Libdeau" (in French). Association Libdeau chapelle templière. 17 December 2012. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
7. "Toul, Chapelle Saint-Jean-Baptiste de l'ancienne commanderie de Libdeau" (in French). La Sauvegarde de l'Art français. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
8. "Chapelle templière de Libdeau" (in French). Fondation du Patrimoine. Retrieved 31 July 2021.

External links

• Official website
• Libdeau on the website of Fondation du Patrimoine