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Slangerup Abbey was a monastery of first Benedictine nuns, then entrusted to the Cistercian nuns, which was located in Slangerup, Denmark. == History == Slangerup, earlier ''Slangir'', was a royal residence from Viking times, perhaps as early as 1000. It was part residence, part farm, and enclosed so it could serve as a small fort. About 1095 King Erik Ejegod, who was born here, replaced the wooden stave church with a limestone church dedicated to Saint Nicholas. It was planned to be the largest church in Scandinavia and its final dimensions were 60 meters long and 13 meters wide. The church was later enlarged to comprise a nave with two side aisles and an apse added onto the choir. It also had twin towers about 30 meters in height. It is thought that Erik Ejegod was trying to establish the Hvide family's status by building such a massive church. In 1170 King Valdemar I gave the "farm" and church of Slangerup for a community of Benedictine nuns, and the newly established abbey〔status indicated by, e.g., ''Esrum klosters brevbog'', Bent Christensen, p. 124, Museum Tusculanum Press, 2002, ISBN 87-7289-754-6, ISBN 978-87-7289-754-7, online at (google.books.co.uk )〕 was dedicated to Our Lady and Saint Nicholas at the suggestion of Absalon, Bishop of Roskilde. The massive church had become costly to the royal family, and so it made economic sense to establish the nuns there and to let others help pay for the complex. Valdemar moved his unmarried daughters to the abbey where they could be watched over and educated. The church became one wing of the cloister, in which the nuns were separated from the world. They had their own private entry to the choir of the church which was gated off from the rest of the congregation, who usually attended the church only on holy days. In 1187 a letter was written to Bishop Absalon, complaining that not all the nuns were "virtuous". This complaint led to the replacement of the Benedictine nuns with the new and strict Cistercian Order, which was seen as a reforming way of life. Most often a new Cistercian head of house and several Cistercian nuns were put in charge of the "unruly" house. The original nuns either left or conformed to the new observance. Throughout the 13th-14th centuries, the abbey received many rental properties and gifts of money from noble families for services rendered by the nuns for recently departed family members or for burial inside the Church. They also received donations and allowances from families who sent unmarried women to live a quasi-religious life in the abbey until they married or took the vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience. In 1311 King Erik Menved issued a decree of shame against the nuns for their unruly behavior. By 1344 the reputation of the abbey must have improved again, because Princess Agnete of Sweden, the daughter of King Birger Magnusson, and her retinue were sent to live at Slangerup by Erik VII. To ensure the abbey's continued existence it was given the town of Slangerup and several other large properties. It is commemorated as a house for young unmarried women in the old Danish folk ballad "Sir Morten's Robbery" ''((デンマーク語:Herr Mortens Klosterrov))''. 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「Slangerup Abbey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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