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La Rochebeaucourt-et-Argentine - Saint Théodore

La Rochebeaucourt-et-Argentine - Saint Théodore
In 1827 the villages La Rochebeaucourt and Argentine merged to La Rochebeaucourt-et-Argentine.

The former collegiate church serves the parish now (and was unfortunately locked). The first church was built in 1121 and given to the monks of Cluny, who soon moved to Argentine and transfered this church to collegiate canons and so became a collegiate church. Looted and partly destroyed in the 14th and 15th century it got rebuilt again later.

Th Cluniac monks had moved the convent to Argentine, where they erected Saint-Martin, as one of the many chemins to Santiago de Compostella run through there. Supporting the pilgrims was a lucrative business, so soon monks and canons quarrelled about the profits. In 1154 Pope Anastasius IV spent some days here, to settle the dispute, but the irascible canons kicked him out.

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