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222: 529: 38: 485: 400:, are buried in the Belley chapel, which forms a kind of vestibule to the church. Some 300 statues and many frescoes adorn the interior of the church, which is 66 metres (217 ft) long, with a transept 26 metres (85 ft) wide. Most of the tombs are little more than reproductions of the medieval monuments. 150: 618: 613: 628: 363: 603: 517: 598: 608: 554: 397: 309:. 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 539: 458: 384:
The abbey was restored (in a debased style) by one of the dukes about 1750, but it was secularized and sold in 1792, when the
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architect Ernest Melano in an exuberant Gothic-Romantic style, and restored it to the Cistercian Order. He and his queen,
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The origins of Hautecombe lie in a religious community which was founded about 1101 in a narrow valley (or
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financed the expansion of a burial chapel at Hautecombe which was constructed from 1331 to 1342.
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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chambéry–Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne–Tarentaise
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purchased the ruins in 1824, had the church re-constructed by the
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It has sometimes been claimed, but has often been disputed, that
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Hunter-Blair, Oswald. "Hautecombe." The Catholic Encyclopedia
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entered Savoy, and was turned into a china-factory. King
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The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture
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in Marseilles. The benedictine monks left in 1992 for
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The first abbot was Amadeus de Haute-Rive, afterwards
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Christian monasteries established in the 12th century
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Hautecombe Abbey on the shores of the Lac du Bourget
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Hautecombe

Order
Benedictine
Clairvaux
Consolata
Sénanque
Solesmes
Mary
Saint Irene
Saint Andrew the Apostle
Diocese
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chambéry–Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne–Tarentaise
Amadeus III, Count of Savoy
Monument historique
Saint-Pierre-de-Curtille
Savoy
France
Hautecombe Abbey

French
[otkɔ̃b]
Latin
Cistercian
Benedictine
Saint-Pierre-de-Curtille
Savoie
France
House of Savoy
combe

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