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The Priory of St. Cosmas ((フランス語:Prieuré de Saint-Cosme)) or the Priory of Ronsard is a former priory built upon an island in the Loire River at La Riche near Tours in Touraine, founded in the 11th Century and dedicated to St. Cosmas. The site features a museum dedicated to the French poet Ronsard, who spent the last twenty years of his life among the Canons Regular there. == History == In 1092 the priory was founded on the site of a 7th Century oratory by a community of Augustinian Canons Regular to accommodate pilgrims on the way to the shrine of St. James of Campostela in Spain, a purpose it served up to the 18th Century. In 1187, King Henry II of England (in whose dominions it was at the time) allowed the Priory to be used as a refuge for the exiled Archbishop of Trier, Fulmar of Karden, at a time when the Priory was considered "a heaven on earth that eased the journey to the real heaven." In the 15th Century, the Priory benefitted from the generosity of King Louis XI of France who dwelt at times at the neighboring Château de Plessis-lèz-Tours. He rebuilt the church and the Prior’s House in the Gothic style. From 1565 to 1585 Pierre de Ronsard (the “Prince of Poets”) became the “Commendatory Prior” of the community. He lived in the Prior’s House (now a museum dedicated to his life) and there received visits from Catherine de Médicis and her son, King Charles IX of France, as well as the future King Henry III of France and others. At his decease on the 27th of December 1585 at the age of 61 he was buried in the choir of the priory church, where his tomb was found in the 1930s. In 1742 the priory was suppressed and in part dismantled. The site was bombed during the Second World War and partly destroyed. Nothing remains but the Prior’s House, the ruins of the church, and the refectory. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Priory of St. Cosmas (La Riche)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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