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Cîteaux Abbey was founded in 1098 by a group of monks from Molesme Abbey, seeking to follow more closely the Rule of St. Benedict, under the leadership of Saint Robert of Molesme, who became the first abbot, Saint Alberic, the second abbot, and Saint Stephen Harding the third abbot, who wrote the Carta Caritatis, that described the organisation of the order.
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Cîteaux and Abbey
In 1098, Saint Robert of Molesme had founded Cîteaux Abbey, near Dijon, with the purpose of restoring the Rule of St Benedict in all its rigour.
* March 21 – Cîteaux Abbey is founded by the Cistercian Order.
* St. Stephen Harding becomes abbott of Cîteaux Abbey.
* Cîteaux Abbey, the first Cistercian monastery, is founded in southern France.
Cîteaux Abbey
Cîteaux Abbey ( French: Abbaye de Cîteaux ) is a Roman Catholic abbey located in Saint-Nicolas-lès-Cîteaux, south of Dijon, France.
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, a monk of Cîteaux Abbey, left it to found Clairvaux Abbey in 1115, of which he was the first abbot.
The great church of Cîteaux Abbey, begun in around 1140, was completed in 1193.
* History of Cîteaux Abbey ( in French )
It was in this village that a group of Benedictine monks from the monastery of Molesme founded Cîteaux Abbey in 1098, with the goal of following more closely the Rule of Saint Benedict.
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He might well have known the miniature at left, which was produced at Cîteaux Abbey before the young Bernard was transferred from there in 1115.
* Cîteaux Abbey
In the first decades of the 12th century, the early Cistercian illuminators of Cîteaux Abbey played an important part in the development of the image of the Tree of Jesse, which was used to counter renewed tendencies to deny the humanity of Mary, which culminated in Catharism.
The act of his that resonated longest in history was his grant of lands in 1115 to the monk Bernard of the reformed Benedictines at Cîteaux — the Cistercians — in order to found Clairvaux Abbey, a Cistercian monastery at Clairvaux ( in the present Ville-sous-la-Ferté ), in a wild valley of a tributary of the Aube, where Bernard was appointed abbot and became famous as Bernard of Clairvaux.
Robert was initially abbot of Cîteaux Abbey, returning to Molesme after a year.
Stephen served Cîteaux Abbey for twenty-five years.
Renaud, the viscount of Beaune, owned a desolate valley in a deep forest, which he gave to Robert and his companions, and thus they founded Cîteaux Abbey.
The Clos de Vougeot vineyard was created by Cistercian monks of Cîteaux Abbey, the order's mother abbey.
Other structures at Sénanque followed, laid out according to the rule of Cîteaux Abbey, mother house of the Cistercians.
Cîteaux and was
Cîteaux was then an important center of Christianity.
The Abbot of Cîteaux was the president of the chapter.
The principle was that Cîteaux should always be the model to which all the other houses had to conform.
In case of any divergence of view at the chapter, the side taken by the Abbot of Cîteaux was always to prevail.
A similar request was made in 1699 by the General Chapter of the Order of Cîteaux.
This somewhat revolutionary arrangement was approved by the general chapter at Cîteaux, and by Pope Alexander III ( 1164 ).
A general chapter held at Cîteaux in 1187 gave to the Knights of Calatrava their definitive rule, which was approved in the same year by Pope Gregory VIII.
Calatrava was subject not to Cîteaux, but to Morimond in Burgundy, the mother-house of Fitero, from which Calatrava had sprung.
Lopez, dispossessed a first time by a delegate of Morimond, appealed to Pope Boniface VIII, who quashed the sentence and referred the case to the general chapter at Cîteaux, where Lopez was re-established in his dignity ( 1302 ).
A schism in the order ensued and was healed only after the king's death, in 1414, when a general chapter, held at Cîteaux, cancelled the election of Villena and acknowledged his competitor, Luis González de Guzmán, as the only legitimate master.
Saint Albéric of Cîteaux ( died January 26, 1108 ), sometimes known as Aubrey of Cîteaux, was a Christian saint and abbot, one of the founders of the Cistercian Order.
Initially, Robert was abbot of Cîteaux with Albéric serving as prior.
It was founded in 1203-1204 by King John and ( uniquely in Britain ) peopled by 30 monks sent from the abbey of Cîteaux in France, the mother house of the Cistercian order.
Cîteaux and founded
Close to the town is the Abbaye Blanche, founded as a Benedictine convent in 1105 and soon afterwards affiliated to Cîteaux.
Saint Gilbert of Sempringham ( about 1083 – 4 February 1190 ) became the only Englishman to found a conventual order, mainly because the abbot of Cîteaux declined his request to assist him in helping a group of women living with lay brothers and sisters, in 1148 In turn he founded a monastery of Canons Regular.
Molesme grew up round the Benedictine monastery of Molesme Abbey, established here in the late 11th century by Saint Robert, who later founded Cîteaux Abbey, motherhouse of the Cistercian Order, with a group of monks from Molesme.
Cîteaux and 1098
On March 21, 1098, Robert's small group acquired a plot of marshland just south of Dijon called Cîteaux ( Latin: " Cistercium ".
* 1098: Foundation of the reforming monastery of Cîteaux, leads to the growth of the Cistercian order.
Cîteaux and by
The Danish mission proved futile, but the clerics saw a need to combat the heresy, so Diego and Dominic returned by way of Rome and Cîteaux.
The crusaders, led by a papal legate, Arnaud Amaury, Abbot of Cîteaux, arrived outside the town on August 1, 1209.
The church was a vast cruciform structure in early gothic style and heavily influenced by French churches of the order, especially those of Cîteaux, Bonport and Clairvaux.
The Cistercian monks of St Mary at Cîteaux in Normandy were granted land for the purpose by King John.
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