Priory of Sainte-Croix de La Volte

He built a first church and monastery, which became the burial place of members of his family. Thanks to the initial endowment and subsequent donations, the priory grew into a powerful institution which, in addition to churches, owned several smaller dependent priories. At the beginning of the 15th century, the church was in danger of collapse and, around the middle of that century, it was rebuilt: this is the building that still survives, a single-nave church with a polygonal apse.

With the abandonment, much of its furnishings and archives were lost. The 15th-century church, the 18th-century monastic buildings, and some remains of the earliest constructions still survive. Among the preserved movable works, one should mention a Romanesque Christ (12th c.) and a decorated wooden door, known as the Door of Saint Odilo, dating from the second half of the 11th century. Other items are now kept outside the priory, such as a pair of pyxes (at the Louvre) and an enamelled casket (at the Bargello Museum in Florence).