Hautecombe
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| Monastery information | |
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| Other names |
 Abbaye Royale d'Hautecombe Abbazia di Altacomba
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| Order | Benedictine |
| Established | c. 1101 |
| Disestablished | 1790–1826 |
| Mother house |
Clairvaux (1125–1790) Consolata (1826–1864) Sénanque (1864–1922) Solesmes (1922–1992) |
| Dedicated to | Mary, Saint Irene, Saint Andrew the Apostle |
| Diocese | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chambéry |
| People | |
| Founder(s) | Amadeus III, Count of Savoy |
| Architecture | |
| Heritage designation | Monument historique |
| Site | |
| Location | Saint-Pierre-de-Curtille, Savoy, France |
| Website | Hautecombe Abbey |
Hautecombe Abbey (Latin: Altæcumbæum) is a former Cistercian monastery, later a Benedictine monastery, in Saint-Pierre-de-Curtille near Aix-les-Bains in Savoy, France. For centuries it was the burial place of the members of the House of Savoy. It is visited by 150,000 tourists yearly.
The origins of Hautecombe lie in a religious community which was founded about 1101 in a narrow valley (or combe) near Lake Bourget by hermits from Aulps Abbey, near Lake Geneva. In about 1125 it was transferred to a site on the north-western shore of the lake under Mont du Chat, which had been granted to it by Amadeus III, Count of Savoy, who is named as the founder; and shortly afterwards it accepted the Cistercian Rule from Clairvaux. The first abbot was Amadeus de Haute-Rive, afterwards Bishop of Lausanne. Two daughter-houses were founded from Hautecombe at an early date: Fossanova Abbey (afterwards called For Appio), in the diocese of Terracina in Italy, in 1135, and San Angelo de Petra, close to Constantinople, in 1214.
It has sometimes been claimed, but as often disputed, that Pope Celestine IV and Pope Nicholas III were monks at Hautecombe.
Hautecombe was for centuries the burial-place of the Counts and Dukes of Savoy. Count Humbert III, known as "Blessed", and his wife Anne were interred there in the latter part of the 12th century; and about a century later Boniface of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterbury (1245–1270), son of Count Thomas I of Savoy, was buried in the sanctuary of the abbey church. Aymon, Count of Savoy financed the expansion of a burial chapel at Hautecombe which was constructed from 1331 to 1342.
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