Egres Abbey
Igriș Abbey (Hungarian: Egresi ciszterci monostor; (Romanian: Mănăstirea Igriș; French: Abbaye de Hégerieux) is a former Cistercian monastery in Sânpetru Mare, Timiș County, Romania. The Igriș Abbey was founded in 1179 as a filial abbey of Pontigny. Here is attested the oldest library in the territory of present-day Romania.
Here was buried king Andrew II of Hungary and his second wife, Yolanda de Courtenay.
References
- Magister Rogerius, Carmen miserabile
- Novák Lajos, Az egresi cisterci apátság története ("History of the Cistercian Abbey of Egres"), Budapest, 1892.
- Christopher Mielke, No Country for old Women. Burial Practices of Hungarian Queens (975-1301), University of Maryland 2010, p. 28 et. seq.