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In 1209, the count of Moha gifted the land in the Rodum Valley to the Cistercian religious community who built the Val Notre-Dame Abbey. The Mehaigne river, agricultural land and woodland allow the order to live self-sufficiently. In the 13th century, the community shone spiritually, it increased its land ownership in Hesbaye. It received tithes from around thirty villages and numerous contributions from noble families in the Hesbaye area to which the majority of the nuns belonged. Two...
