Developed in 8th century as a Benedictine monastery, it later became the house of Hohenzellora family in 1331.

A Benedictine monastery at the place was founded around 748 by a Frankish noble, Gumbertus, who was later canonized.

58. 17 ) requires candidates for reception into a Benedictine community to promise solemnly stability ( to remain in the same monastery ), conversatio morum ( an idiomatic Latin phrase suggesting " conversion of manners "), and obedience ( to the superior, because the superior holds the place of Christ in their community ).

He found time also to visit personally the great Benedictine monastery on Monte Cassino, where he succeeded in persuading the monks to accept his more rigorous rule.

Between 1200 and 1425 the monastery of Gorgona, Benedictine for much of that time and in the territory of Pisa, acquired about 40 legal papers of various sorts written on Corsica.

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.

The settlement grew up around the precincts of another Benedictine monastery, founded in AD 900-950 by Abbot Ulsinus ( also known as Wulsin ).

" After arranging for the safety of his family, he appealed to the abbot of the Benedictine monastery at Maria Laach for a stay of several months.

The oldest reference to Maltese comes from the Benedictine monks of Catania, who were unable to open a monastery in Malta, in 1364, because they could not understand the native language.

The precise dating of the Rule of the Master is problematic ; but it has been argued on internal grounds that it antedates the so-called Rule of Saint Benedict created by Benedict of Nursia for his monastery in Monte Cassino, Italy ( c. 529 ), and the other Benedictine monasteries he himself had founded ( cf.

Soon he entered a monastery on Lake Como, and before 782 he had become a resident at the great Benedictine house of Monte Cassino, where he made the acquaintance of Charlemagne.

Besides turning over to them some deserted Benedictine monasteries, he presented them with the monastery of St. Paul at Albano, which he himself had founded and richly endowed when he was still cardinal.

Coming to Rome during the pontificate of Pope Gregory III, he was placed in the monastery of St. Chrysogonus, where he was ordained a Benedictine monk.

There he met two monks of the renowned Benedictine monastery of Monte Cassino, with whom he returned in 1055.

He received further theological training in the Benedictine monastery and minster of Nhutscelle ( Nursling ), not far from Winchester, which under the direction of abbot Winbert had grown into an industrious centre of learning in the tradition of Aldhelm.

The poetry of O Fortuna was actually the work of itinerant goliards, found in the German Benedictine monastery of Benediktbeuern Abbey.

* The Benedictine Order is established at Monte Cassino near Naples by Benedict of Nursia, who founds a monastery and formulates for his monks strict rules in the " Regula Benedicti ".

* Wilfred the Hairy, Count of Barcelona, founds the Benedictine monastery at Ripoll.

St. Benedict of Nursia established his first monastery, the source of the Benedictine Order, here around 529.

The Benedictine monastery of Fulda was founded in 744 by Saint Sturm, a disciple of Saint Boniface, as one of Boniface's outposts in the reorganization of the church in Germany.

* Anselm settles at the Benedictine monastery of Le Bec in Normandy.

* Dmitar Zvonimir of Croatia donated the town of Vrana and Benedictine monastery of St. Gregory, as a sign of loyalty to Pope Gregory VII.

A cathedral dedicated to Saint Bartholomew is built together with the Benedictine monastery in the castle.

Westminster Abbey was for a short time a cathedral, and was a Benedictine monastery until the Reformation, and its Chapter preserves elements of the Benedictine tradition.

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

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.

** Peter the Venerable, Benedictine abbot of Cluny

From one point of view, it may be regarded as a compromise between the primitive Benedictine system, in which each abbey was autonomous and isolated, and the complete centralization of Cluny, where the Abbot of Cluny was the only true superior in the body.

* Bernard of Cluny, 12th century Benedictine monk

The Cluniac order was a branch of the Benedictines and fell under the rule of the great abbey at Cluny in Burgundy ; the Benedictine order was a keystone to the stability that European society achieved in the 11th century, and partly owing to the stricter adherence to a reformed Benedictine rule, Cluny became the acknowledged leader of western monasticism from the later 10th century.

In the 9th century, the abbey was refounded under the guidance of Badilo, who became an affiliate of the reformed Benedictine order of Cluny.

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.

The latter, under the influence of the Benedictine bishop of Cluny Bernard, and the Archbishop of Toledo Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, who was himself the principal buyer of Mozarab property in the early 13th century fomented a segregationalist policy under the cloak of religious nationalism.

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

In 910, William founded the Benedictine abbey of Cluny that would become an important political and religious centre.

He studied in Paris and entered the Benedictine Abbey of Cluny.

Hugh retired to a monastery, took vows as a monk and later became abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Cluny.

The papal privilege empowered him to unite several abbeys under his supervision and to receive at Cluny monks from Benedictine abbeys not yet reformed ; the greater number of the reformed monasteries, however, remained independent, and several became centres of reform.

Paray ( Paredum ; Parodium ) existed before the monks who gave it its surname of Le Monial, for when Count Lambert of Chalon, together with his wife Adelaide and his friend Mayeul de Cluny, founded there in 973 the celebrated Benedictine priory, the borough had already been constituted, with its ædiles and communal privileges.

He likely received his orders in the Benedictine Abbey of Cluny.

Tonsured at the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Cyprien in Poitiers around the year 1070, Bernard left the order in 1101 when his nomination as new abbot was disapproved by Cluny and Pope Paschal II.

Peter the Venerable ( about 1092 – December 25, 1156 in Cluny, France ), also known as Peter of Montboissier, abbot of the Benedictine abbey of Cluny, was born to Blessed Raingarde in Auvergne, France.