1 Pol ish Acad emy of Sci ences, In sti tute of Geo log i cal Sci ences, Senacka 1, 31-002 Kraków, Po land 2 Pol ish Acad emy of Sci ences, In sti tute of Geo log i cal Sci ences, Podwale 75, 50-449 Wroc³aw, Po land Budzyñ, B., Jastrzêbski, M., 2016. Monazite sta bil ity and the main te nance of Th-U-to tal Pb ages dur ing post-mag matic processes in granitoids and host metasedimentary rocks: a case study from the Sudetes (SW Po land). Geo log i cal Quar terly, 60 (1): 106-123, doi: 10.7306/gq.1254The sta bil ity and main te nance of the age re cord of monazite dur ing post-mag matic pro cesses were stud ied in gra nitic and host metasedimentary rocks from the Sudetes (SW Po land). Un al tered monazite in the K³odzko-Z³oty Stok granitoid provided a Th-U-to tal Pb age of 329 ± 5 Ma, which con strains tim ing of the late stage of pluton em place ment. In con trast, monazite in the Jawornik granitoid re mained un al tered or was par tially re placed by sec ond ary phases, in clud ing (1) al la nite, epidote and, oc ca sion ally, ap a tite; (2) cheralite, al la nite and a mix ture of clays, Fe ox ides and pos si ble un known rare earth el e ment (REE) phases; and (3) K-feld spar and cheralite with sub se quent for ma tion of ti tan ite. Dif fer ent al ter ation prod ucts on the thin sec tion scale in di cate the lo cal char ac ter of the post-mag matic pro cesses af fect ing monazite in duced by alkali-rich flu ids. The al tered and un al tered monazite grains both yielded a Th-U-to tal Pb age of 343 ± 4 Ma. The Th-U-to tal Pb ages of the monazite in the ac com pa ny ing metasedimentary rocks ther mally af fected by in trud ing mag mas were also constrained. In the paragneiss in con tact with the Jawornik granitoid, the un al tered monazite and monazite par tially re placed by al la nite yielded an age of 344 ± 5 Ma. The monazite from the mica schist, far ther from the con tact with the granitoids, ex hibited an age of 336 ± 4.5 Ma. The 344-336 Ma ages dem on strated a re cord of monazite (re)growth dur ing pro longed Variscan meta mor phism. The pre dom i nant early Visean ages con strain the tim ing of the de vel op ment of the Z³oty Stok-Skrzynka Shear Zone and the em place ment of the Jawornik granitoid in tru sion. The age re sults, which are con sis tent with pre vi ous geo chron ol ogy, in di cate that the par tial al ter ation of the monazite did not af fect the in ter nal do mains or the main te nance of the monazite ages. Thus, this study re veals that monazite geo chron ol ogy can pro vide mean ing ful data in crys tal line rocks affected by fluid-in duced post-mag matic pro cesses.