This election has been traditionally dated to 1137, but evidence from the abbey's chronicles suggests it occurred about 1145.

He died on 16 September 1087 and was buried in the tomb he had prepared for himself in the abbey's chapter-house.

In the 11th century the abbey's church was to become the Cathedral of Rheims, where most future French kings would be crowned.

According to the abbey's records, in which he was called princeps Australium Saxonum, Eadwinus nomine ( Eadwine leader of the South Saxons ), he bequeathed estates to them in his will, although the document itself has not survived.

It was used for the storage of arable produce, particularly wheat and rye, from the abbey's home farm of approximately.

The next abbot, Richard, held the post until his death in 1170 and restored the abbey's stability and prosperity.

During the European famine of 1194 Haget ordered the construction of shelters in the vicinity of the abbey and provided daily food rations to the poor enhancing the abbey's reputation for caring for the poor and attracting more grants from wealthy benefactors.

They were burdened with an inordinate amount of administrative duties and increasing demands for money in taxation and levies but managed to complete another massive expansion of the abbey's buildings.

The abbey's hospitium, or dormitory for pilgrims, also survives.

All that is left of the abbey church itself today is its outline on the ground, but parts of some of the abbey's buildings are still standing: those built between the 13th and 16th century.

The abbey's tower is now home to a ring of ten bells, which are – unusually – hung so that the order of the bells from highest to lowest runs anti-clockwise around the ringing chamber.

The abbey's next organ was built in 1836 by John Smith of Bristol, to a specification of thirty stops over three manuals and pedals.

The Bath Abbey Heritage Vaults Museum is located in the restored 18th-century cellars, and features artifacts and exhibits about the abbey's history.

Displays include the different buildings on the site and their uses, the abbey's impact on the community, the construction, architecture and sculptures of the buildings, artifacts and sculptures, and the role of the abbey in present times.

The abbey's position close to Edinburgh Castle meant that it was often visited by Scotland's kings, who were lodged in the guest house situated to the west of the abbey cloister.

Crowland's secondary school was originally named The St Guthlac School after the abbey's founder, is situated at the junction of the B1166 and B1040.

After the Conquest, Aelfwold fled to Denmark, and the abbey's estates suffered encroachments by neighbouring landowners.

The abbey's church was demolished and rebuilt in fashionable classical style in 1833, and now serves as the town's cathedral.

The Anglo-Saxon charters of Malmesbury, though extended by forgeries and improvements executed in the abbey's scriptorium, provide source material today for the history of Wessex and the West Saxon church from the seventh century.

Some of these changes may suggest a response to the abbey's proprietary struggles.

After admission to the order in 1217, he inherited the mantle of Roger of Wendover, the abbey's official recorder of events, in 1236.

Lacock Abbey, dedicated to St Mary and St Bernard, was founded in 1229 by the widowed Lady Ela the Countess of Salisbury, who laid the abbey's first stone 16 April 1232, in the reign of King Henry III, and to which she retired in 1238.

Major restoration work was carried out by J W Walker & Sons Ltd in 1995 / 96 under the supervision of the abbey's organist Jeffrey Williams, restoring the mechanical actions and overhauling all of the pipe work.

The old course of the river is visible in the abbey's grounds.

Theobald and St Augustine's also came into conflict over the abbey's claims of exemption from the archbishops ' oversight, because it owed obedience directly to the pope.

The abbey's buildings were of a scale and magnificence reflecting its status as an important royal foundation.

Visitors can also stay a few days in the abbey's guesthouse, but the parts of the monastery used by the monastic community cannot be visited.

He confirmed the grants of his father and grandfather to the abbey of St Florent in Anjou and made further grants to the abbey's dependent priory at Sele in Sussex.

The east range, which was started at the same time as the church and probably took about 10 years to build, contained many of the abbey's most important rooms.

It is likely that, as at Netley's great sister house of Fountains Abbey, the chamber above the warming house was the muniment room, where the abbey's charters, records and title deeds, as well as those of local lords, were kept.

In 1535 the abbey's income was assessed in the Valor Ecclesiasticus, Henry VIII's great survey of church finances, at £ 160 gross, £ 100 net, which meant the following year that it came under the terms of the First Suppression Act, Henry's initial move in the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

The abbey's debts were moderate at £ 42.

Much of the stone came from the abbey's own quarries at Doulting, allowing access by way of the River Sheppey at Pilton.

Pater Georg Pasterwitz was his mentor at Kremsmunster, being the director of the abbey's musical life.

Abbott John was blamed for ineffectual financial management and was required to resign and, on 13 January 1255 Pope Alexander IV wrote to the Bishop of St Andrews ( position vacant at the time ) and to Nicholas de Prenderlathe, abbot of Jedburgh demanding that most of the abbey's income be diverted to paying off debts while only a basic level of income was to be retained for day to day expenses.

Despite the abbey's affiliation with the Balliol family who remained resolutely at odds with the Bruce monarchy, the abbot and canons, before 21 October 1316, expelled two of their rank for refusing to acknowledge Robert as their king ; a grateful King Edward II of England rewarded them by providing them with the rent and fishery of the abbey at Berwick.

He gave land at Leebotswood and granted the right to make assarts around the abbey site-both strategically important for the abbey's later prosperity.

In 1535 the abbey's income was assessed in the Valor Ecclesiasticus, Henry VIII's great survey of church finances, at £ 428 gross, £ 326 net, which meant that it escaped being confiscated under the terms of the first Suppression Act, Henry's initial move in the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

It is claimed that at the Benedictine Abbey of Fécamp in Normandy, monks had developed a medicinal aromatic herbal beverage which was produced until the abbey's devastation during the French Revolution, but in fact Alexandre Le Grand invented the recipe himself, helped by a local chemist, and he told this story to connect the liqueur with the city history to increase sales.

The Robin Hood and Little John Standing Stones were erected here between the 12th and 14th centuries in an agreement with the abbot of Peterborough that tolls would not be levied on the passage of stone from the abbey's quarries at Barnack.

It all began on Christmas Day, 1947, with an article, " No Room at the Inn ," written by Father Werenfried for his abbey's newsletter

Iron Curtain Church Relief ( later renamed Aid to the Church in Need ) is born quietly on Christmas Day in the Norbertine abbey of Tongerlo in Belgium when 34-year-old Father Werenfried (" Warrior for Peace ") Van Straaten, publishes " No Room at the Inn " in his abbey's newsletter.

Historian Susan E. Kelly regards the traditional first six abbots as fictional: " There is good reason to think that in most cases their names were simply plucked from early charters available in the abbey's archive, the majority of which would seem to have had no connection with an early minister at Abingdon ; there is no very convincing evidence that the historians had access to independent, reliable sources of information.