Commanderie de Beaune, Medieval commandry in Beaune, France

The Commanderie de Beaune is a former Templar order house located at the intersection of Rue du Faubourg Saint-Jacques and Rue Jacques de Molay. A stone chapel and sections of fortified walls remain from the original complex, providing evidence of the site's religious and military past.

The Templar house of Beaune was founded shortly before 1177 on what is now Rue du Faubourg Saint-Jacques, at the corner with Rue Jacques de Molay. Land and estate donations flowed in for nearly a century. On Friday 13 October 1307 the few members were arrested and disarmed by order of Philip IV; in 1312 Clement V transferred the domain to the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem.

The street names carry the memory: Rue du Faubourg Saint-Jacques recalls the 12th-century chapel the Templars dedicated to their patron saint, and Rue Jacques de Molay honours the young Franche-Comté knight inducted here in 1265, who became last master of the Temple in 1292. The site is now private property.

The commandry stands at 25 rue du Faubourg Saint-Jacques, at its corner with rue Jacques de Molay, in the Saint-Jacques suburb named after the Templars' 12th-century chapel. The site is private property and not open to the public, so the stone building with its round-arched portal and small arched window is seen from the street. The portal itself was sold after the First World War and is now in a museum in the United States.

In the 16th century, the buildings of the former Templar site were converted into a hospital that specifically treated plague victims. This transformation reveals how the location shifted from a military purpose to a place of medical care.