Colombiers - Saint-Maclou
Colombiers - Saint-Maclou
Colombiers - Saint-Maclou
Colombiers - Saint-Maclou
Colombiers - Saint-Maclou
Colombiers - Saint-Maclou
Colombiers - Saint-Maclou
Colombiers - Saint-Maclou
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Colombiers - Saint-Maclou
Colombiers is a small village (pop. 300) in the former marshes of the Seugne river. Life must be hard here in medieval times. Saint-Maclou, the village´s parish church, was erected in the 12th century. It was the church of a priory, dependent from the Benedictian Abbaye Saint-Sauveur in Charroux. The church got altered and modified during the Gothic period (15th.), when it lost its once Romanesque portal.
The carved corbels and capitals all around the apse still exist. One of them has this couple.
Pope Benedict VIII tried to establish mandatory celibacy for priests and bishops in the 11th century, and it took a while, to spread the news. No priory would have dared to portray the "Bishop and his Wife" on a corbel a century later. So the title can only be "The Pious Knight and his Wife".
The carved corbels and capitals all around the apse still exist. One of them has this couple.
Pope Benedict VIII tried to establish mandatory celibacy for priests and bishops in the 11th century, and it took a while, to spread the news. No priory would have dared to portray the "Bishop and his Wife" on a corbel a century later. So the title can only be "The Pious Knight and his Wife".
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I know, that Pope Boniface VIII is often depicted "eggheaded". OK - who then is the king? He and "Philippe IV le Bel" were no friends at all. Phillip installed his "own" pope later. So he and Boniface would not have liked to be portrayed cheek to cheek. The Plantagenets had lost the Saintonge sothe English were "out"..
"Pope & King" it may just be the symbol of the god given ubiquitious power
you are perfectly right! I just found another carvings, that is easier to "read" in Chadenac (20 kms south). Crown and Cone. King and Pope. No Pasaran - for Knights Templar! I will upload the photos from Chadenac within the next days.
I´m uploading the Chadenac photo ("ascension"), but actually it is not a proof. Soldiers wore conical helmets as well. But I´ll follow that..
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