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By the twelfth century, the Congregation of Cluny included more than a thousand monasteries. [7] Berno had established St. Peter's monastery at Gigny and Baume Abbey on the rule as interpreted by Benedict of Aniane, who had sought to restore the primitive strictness of the monastic observance wherever it had been relaxed.
It is thought that there were only three Cluniac nunneries in England, one of them being Delapré Abbey at Northampton. Until the reign of Henry VI, all Cluniac houses in England were French, governed by French priors and directly controlled from Cluny. Henry's act of raising the English priories to independent abbeys was a political gesture, a ...
In 1056, the first Cluniac nunnery was founded at Marcigny and after this other convents followed including those in the British Isles. The Cluniac nuns were always greatly outnumbered by their male counterparts. In England, the Cluniac houses numbered thirty-five at the time of Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th
At the time, it was the 38th Cistercian monastery founded; as of 2024, it is the oldest surviving Cistercian house in the world. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] In 1133, Heiligenkreuz Abbey was founded near Vienna by Morimond monks; [ 33 ] it is (as of 2024) the largest men's abbey in Europe.
Cistercian monks cell or grange ... adjacent to Benedictine monastery ... Cluniac monks founded 1121 by Henry I Benedictine monks refounded c.1210; dissolved 1539; ...
The consecration of the third Cluny Abbey by Pope Urban II [1]. By the 10th century, Christianity had spread throughout much of Europe and Asia. The Church in England was becoming well established, with its scholarly monasteries, and the Roman Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church were continuing their separation, ultimately culminating in the Great Schism.
These monasteries were dissolved by King Henry VIII of England in the dissolution of the monasteries. The list is by no means exhaustive, since over 800 religious houses existed before the Reformation, and virtually every town, of any size, had at least one abbey, priory, convent or friary in it.
Odilo of Cluny (c. 962 – 1 January 1049) was the 5th [2] Benedictine Abbot of Cluny, succeeding Mayeul and holding the post for around 54 years. During his tenure Cluny became the most important monastery in western Europe.