Savigny Abbey, Rhône

The Abbey of Saint-Martin de Savigny was a Benedictine monastery in the Archdiocese of Lyon.

[2] It also appears in the Notitia de servitio monasteriorum of 819, where it is one of the monasteries owing only prayers (orationes) for the emperor and no other service.

[3] In 976, Conrad the Peaceful, King of Burgundy, confirmed the possessions and privileges of the abbey.

[4] In 1139, Bernard of Clairvaux wrote to Falco, archbishop of Lyon, indicating that Savigny was in conflict with the abbey of La Bénisson-Dieu over possessions in the Roannais.

Bernard was writing in support of La Bénisson-Dieu because its abbot, Alberic, was one of his disciples.

Ruins of the abbey in 2019
Portion of a Pilaster with an Acrobat Capital from Benedictine Monastery Abbey of Saint-Martin de Savigny at The Metropolitan Museum Cloister Collection