Abstract
A few decades after the work of Jean Verdon and Élisabeth Magnou-Nortier, this article intends to revisit the sources available to study the female religious communities of Aquitaine (mainly located in the north) prior to the 11th century. In all, a dozen textual files composed of diplomatic acts, authentic, interpolated or false, historical or legendary accounts, and various mentions, contemporary or late, are critically re-read. Among the best documented establishments, we note, besides the exceptional case of the powerful abbey Sainte-Croix de Poitiers, of Merovingian foundation, various ephemeral foundations, such as Sainte-Eulalie de Bordeaux or Sarrazac. The most coherent group is formed by the small aristocratic foundations of the end of the tenth or beginning of the eleventh century, with variable destinies, but whose patrimonial and family character is clearly visible : Saint-Sauveur du Bugue, Saint-Silvain de Lamonzie in Périgord, Saint-André (future Saint-Jean de Bonneval) near Thouars in Poitou
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