Charterhouse (monastery)
Grande Chartreuse
A charterhouse (French: Chartreuse, German: Kartause, Italian: Certosa, Spanish: Cartuja) is a monastery of Carthusian monks. The English word is derived by phono-semantic matching from the French word Chartreuse.[1] The first monastery of the order was established at Grande Chartreuse, in a valley of the Chartreuse Mountains, in 1084 by St Bruno of Cologne; but the English name wrongly suggests that the order was created by charter, a grant of legal rights by a high authority.
See also
- Certosa (disambiguation), the Italian name for a Carthusian monastery
- Charterhouse (disambiguation)
- Chartreuse (disambiguation), the French name for a Carthusian monastery
- List of Carthusian monasteries
References
- ↑ Wedgwood, Hensleigh (1855). "On False Etymologies". Transactions of the Philological Society (6): 66.
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