Abbey of Saint-Medard de Soissons

The Abbey of Saint-Medard de Soissons was a Benedictine cloister, at one time held to be the best in France. The monastery was established in 557 by Clotaire I on his estate of Crouy, close to the manor of Syagrius, simply outside the then limits of Soissons to house the remaining parts of Saint Medard, the legend being that amid the memorial service parade the coffin ground to a halt at Crouy and was difficult to move until the lord had made an endowment of the entire home for the establishment of the convent.

In 751 Childeric III was dismissed here, and Pippin the Short delegated. Richard Gerberding, the cutting edge manager of Liber Historiae Francorum places its unknown creator here, ca 727. In 1121, after a chamber at Soissons where he was blamed for sin, Peter Abelard was, as discipline, limited to the religious community of Saint Medard. In 1131 Pope Innocent II reconsecrated the reconstructed church and conceded those meeting it guilty pleasures known as "Holy person Medard's exonerations".

The abundance of the convent was colossal. In the 12th century the network claimed around 225. The monastery likewise stamped coins. Its riches stayed into the 16th century however the Wars of Religion destroyed it, and despite the fact that it was reestablished in 1637, it never recovered its previous stature. The convent was broken down in the French Revolution. The structures had vanished by the start of the 20th century, with the exception of the still surviving yet nearly overlooked sepulcher of about 840.