A Lay Abbey (Fr: Abbaye laïque) was a basic component of the Middle Ages in the western foothills of the northern Pyrenees. The adjective lay indicated that the property did not belong to a religious order. It is possible to identify a hundred lay abbeys, some only by conjecture due to the disappearance of the texts.

Introduction

The founding principle was the creation of a parish by a lord or even by a large farmer, sometimes very small, in order to tithe,

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