The town grew up around the Benedictine Cluny Abbey, founded by Duke William I of Aquitaine in 910.

A view of the remains of the Cluny Abbey | Abbey of Cluny, a Rule of St. Benedict | Benedictine monastery, was the centre of monastic life revival in the Middle Ages and marked an important step in the cultural rebirth following the Early Middle Ages | Dark Ages.

To combat this and other practices that had corrupted the Church between the years 900 and 1050, centres emerged promoting ecclesiastical reform, the most important being the Abbey of Cluny, which spread its ideals throughout Europe.

Distrustful of the traditional Benedictine order, he favoured new monastic orders, such as the Augustinians and the Cistercians, and sought to exercise more control over the larger monastic centres of Monte Cassino and Cluny Abbey.

Aside from the Benedictines at Monte Cassino, Honorius was also determined to deal with the monks at Cluny Abbey under their ambitious and worldly abbot, Pons of Melgueil.

In 1125, accompanied by an armed following, Pons took possession of Cluny Abbey, melted down the treasures stored in the monastery, and paid his followers, who continued to terrorise the monks and the villages dependent upon the abbey.

The reformation sponsored by Cluny Abbey was supported by him, and he was a friend of its abbot, St. Odilo.

During the violent confrontations between Henry V and Paschal II's successor, Pope Gelasius II, the Pope was forced to flee from Rome, first to Gaeta, where he was crowned, then to the Abbey of Cluny, where he died on 29 January 1119.

The papacy and the influential Abbey of Cluny in Burgundy not only justified the acts of war but actively encouraged Christian knights to seek armed confrontation with Moorish " infidels " instead of with each other.

* Completion of the third and largest church at Cluny Abbey.

Most of his bulls were grants of privilege to monasteries, especially including the Abbey of Cluny.

Category: Burials at Cluny Abbey

Probably sometime after this and before 1030, Amadeus, Burchard, and a third brother, Otto, joined their father in witnessing a donation made by one Aymon de Pierrefort to the Abbey of Cluny.

In a further two undated charters of probably about the same period, Amadeus together with his brothers Otto and Aymon and his father made donations to the Abbey of Cluny and the church of Saint-Maurice at Matassine.

The Cluniac order is notable for being organised entirely on this obedientiary principle, with a single abbot at the Abbey of Cluny, and all other houses dependent priories.

The Abbey of Cluny, where Thurstan visited and vowed to become a monk at some point in his life.

With the Cluniac reforms of the 11th century there was a new emphasis on liturgy and the canonical hours in the reformed Benedictine priories with the Abbey of Cluny at their head.

With the Abbey of Cluny in ruins, the Speyer Cathedral remains the largest Romanesque church to this very day.

The site became the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Martial, a great library ( second only to the library at Cluny ) and scriptorium.

Few in Europe would have known of this immense new wealth in a kingdom so isolated that its bishops had virtually no contact with Rome, except that Ferdinand and his heirs ( the kings of León and Castile ) became the greatest benefactors of the Abbey of Cluny, where Abbot Hugh ( died 1109 ) undertook construction of the huge third abbey church, the cynosure of every eye.

Abelard died at Cluny Abbey in Burgundy, a monastery supported by the Thebaudians for many centuries.

The cloister of the abbey of Sénanque Abbey | Sénanque

The term can also refer to an establishment which has long ceased to function as an abbey, in some cases for centuries ( for example, see Westminster Abbey below ).

In 1017 Henry II also founded Michaelsberg Abbey on the Michaelsberg (" Mount St. Michael "), near Bamberg, a Benedictine abbey for the training of the clergy.

* Limburg Abbey, a ruined abbey near Bad Dürkheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

This 1862 painting by John Rogers Herbert depicts monks at work in the fields with an abbey ( the Trappist Mount St. Bernard Abbey ) in the background

Talley Abbey was the first Premonstratensian abbey in Wales, while Llanllyr was a Cistercian nunnery, only the second nunnery to be founded in Wales and the first to prosper.

On 17 February 1818, workmen breaking ground on the new parish church to be built on the site of the eastern choir of Dunfermline Abbey uncovered a tomb before the site of the former abbey high altar.

The site of the tomb in Dunfermline Abbey was marked by large carved stone letters spelling out " King Robert the Bruce " around the top of the bell tower, when the eastern half of the abbey church was rebuilt in the first half of the 19th century.

Originally the small settlement was controlled by abbots from the local abbey, and when the first weekly market was set up in 1107 by Henry I, he decreed that the proceeds go to Evesham Abbey.

When the abbey was destroyed in 1543 the corpse was moved to Kloster Neumünster (" New-Minster Abbey ") in Luxembourg.

The abbey complex consists of the Catacombs, The Abbey ( 17th-18th centuries ), the Colegio Viejo de San Dionisio Areopagita ( 17th century ) and the Colegio Nuevo ( 19th century ).

Otto II and his wife Theophanu enhanced the spiritual importance of the city by establishing a Benedictine Imperial abbey there: the Memleben Abbey.

Youths riding goats ( a Dionysus | Dionysiac motif in antiquity ) on 12th-century capitals from the Mozac Abbey | abbey of Mozac in the Auvergne ( region ) | Auvergne.

This abbey was later moved to Maenan, becoming the Maenan Abbey, near Llanrwst, and Llywelyn's stone coffin can now be seen in Llanrwst parish church.

In 978, Archbishop Dunstan refounded the abbey built by Augustine, and named it St Augustine's Abbey.

Cîteaux Abbey ( French: Abbaye de Cîteaux ) is a Roman Catholic abbey located in Saint-Nicolas-lès-Cîteaux, south of Dijon, France.

He recovered and agreed to give the Abbot of Fountains Abbey land at Barnoldswick in the West Riding of Yorkshire ( now in Lancashire ) on which to found a daughter abbey.

On the other side of the main road, the grade II * listed former abbey gatehouse now forms the Abbey House Museum.

Adjacent to the basilica stands an important abbey, formerly known as the Royal Abbey of St Remi.

Fields surrounding the early French Cistercian abbey of Pontigny Abbey | Pontigny

In 1999, the Trappist Koningshoeven Abbey entered into an agreement with Bavaria to take over the daily operations of the monks ' brewery within the abbey.

In 1191, monks at the abbey claimed to have found the graves of Arthur and Guinevere to the south of the Lady Chapel of the Abbey Church, which was visited by a number of contemporary historians including Giraldus Cambrensis.

This route made it difficult for the officials of Glastonbury Abbey to transport produce from their outlying estates to the abbey, and when the valley of the River Axe was in flood it backed up to flood Glastonbury itself.