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PONTIGNY
. The Cistercian abbey of Pontigny (Yonne) was founded in 1114 as the second daughter
house of
Pontigny (Yonne), Notre-Dame, nave.
Photograph: Clarence Ward
Collection. Courtesy of Oberlin
College.
Cîteaux by Hugues de Mâcon. It was itself the mother house of thirty-four French abbeys
and priories. In the Middle Ages, it served as a refuge for three successive archbishops of
Canterbury. Thomas Becket fled here in 1164 and remained until Henry’s threat to expel
the Cistercians from England forced him in 1166 to move to Sens. Four years later, he
would be assassinated at Canterbury. Stephen Langton sought refuge here from 1208 to
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