Longues Abbey

It was founded in 1168 by Hugh Wac, of a family that owned Rubercy and other lands in the Cotentin, and was generously supported by gifts from the English and Norman nobility, and from King Henry II.

[1] The prominent families of Bacon of Molay and d'Argouges were particular benefactors of the abbey and several of them were buried there.

[1] After a long period of decline, it was finally closed in 1781 under the last commendatory abbot, Emmanuel-Louis de Cugnac, bishop of Lectoure, when its revenues were given to the seminary at Bayeux.

[1] Numerous ruins and structures remain, which have been listed at various times as monuments historiques.

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