Charterhouse (monastery)

Grande Chartreuse

A charterhouse (French: chartreuse; German: Kartause; Italian: certosa; Portuguese: cartuxa; Spanish: cartuja) is a monastery of Carthusian monks. The English word is derived by phono-semantic matching from the French word chartreuse^[1] and it is therefore sometimes misunderstood to indicate that the houses were created by charter, a grant of legal rights by a high authority.

The actual namesake is instead the first monastery of the order, the Grande Chartreuse, which St Bruno of Cologne established in a valley of the Chartreuse Mountains in 1084.^[2]

The London Charterhouse was the first English site to which this English version of the word was applied.

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↑ Wedgwood, Hensleigh (1855). "On False Etymologies". Transactions of the Philological Society (6): 66. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3924121;view=1up;seq=76.
↑ "The Origin". The Carthusian Order. http://chartreux.org/en/origin.php. Retrieved 9 March 2019.

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[1] Wedgwood, Hensleigh (1855). "On False Etymologies". Transactions of the Philological Society (6): 66. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3924121;view=1up;seq=76.

[2] "The Origin". The Carthusian Order. http://chartreux.org/en/origin.php. Retrieved 9 March 2019.

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Charterhouse (monastery)

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