His remains were eventually buried in the abbey of Fulda after resting for some time in Utrecht, and they are entombed within a shrine beneath the high altar of Fulda Cathedral, previously the abbey church.

The abbey sought trade protection, and eventually ( in 1959 ), sold the rights to a major creamery.

He eventually managed to be accepted into an abbey in France.

Eventually, on co-founder FitzTurgis ' death, control of the abbey passed to his son Roger, now ' de Wickersley ,' and then eventually to a granddaughter Constantia, who married William de Livet ( Levett ), a family of Norman origin who were lords of the nearby village of Hooton Levitt ( or Levett ).

From the Mansel family the abbey eventually passed into their descendants in the female line, the Talbot family.

The abbey was ravaged by the Welsh uprisings of the 13th century, and eventually dissolved by King Henry VIII of England in 1539.

The archaeology of the abbey was eventually excavated between 1924 and 1935.

It is thought that little work took place on the permanent stone monastery until the house was taken under the wing of Henry III, who became interested in the abbey in the mid-1240s and eventually assumed the role of patron in 1251.

He became a farmer and, eventually, part-time organist at the Benedictine abbey of St. Pierre ( not the parish church ).

6 miles up Glenericht it reaches the little village of Bridge of Cally and begins the long climb up into Glenshee, eventually passing the historic Spittal of Glenshee hotel which was originally a shelter for travellers run by monks from Coupar Angus abbey.

They abbey chapel was eventually abandoned during the dissolution of the monasteries in 1537.

As part of the general move towards urban cathedrals in the late Saxon period, Bishop Leofric eventually transferred his see to the old abbey at Exeter in 1050.

Six years after his death, his monks were driven from their abbey, and his body was taken to Italy, where it was at first kept in the Castel dell ' Ovo, Naples, then eventually interred at the Benedictine monastery rededicated to him, the Abbey of San Severino near Naples.

After Beaulieu fell there was much competition amongst courtiers to gain ownership of the abbey and its valuable estates, but eventually Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, won the struggle and King Henry granted him the abbey itself and 3, 441ha of the Beaulieu lands.

In 1744-1751 the struggling abbey operated a seminary, and eventually lost this privilege too.

The abbey became too small for its members and it was necessary to send out bands to found new houses.

If Columbanus's abbey at Bobbio in Italy became a citadel of faith and learning, Luxeuil in France became the nursery of saints and apostles.

* 1382: Gdynia became property of the Cistercian abbey in Oliva, now Oliwa.

He had been a descendant of the Israelite tribe of Issachar ; he had been educated by his grandfathers, who had both been physicians to the court of Good King René of Provence ; he had attended Montpellier University in 1525 to gain his first degree: after returning there in 1529 he had successfully taken his medical doctorate ; he had gone on to lecture in the Medical Faculty there until his views became too unpopular ; he had supported the heliocentric view of the universe ; he had travelled to the north-east of France, where he had composed prophecies at the abbey of Orval ; in the course of his travels he had performed a variety of prodigies, including identifying a future Pope ; he had successfully cured the Plague at Aix-en-Provence and elsewhere ; he had engaged in scrying using either a magic mirror or a bowl of water ; he had been joined by his secretary Chavigny at Easter 1554 ; having published the first installment of his Propheties, he had been summoned by Queen Catherine de ' Medici to Paris in 1556 to discuss with her his prophecy at quatrain I. 35 that her husband King Henri II would be killed in a duel ; he had examined the royal children at Blois ; he had bequeathed to his son a ' lost book ' of his own prophetic paintings ; he had been buried standing up ; and he had been found, when dug up at the French Revolution, to be wearing a medallion bearing the exact date of his disinterment.

When Otto II became Holy Roman Emperor in 973 ( he was co-emperor with Otto I from 967 ), he appointed Gerbert the abbot of the monastery of Bobbio and also appointed him as count of the district, but the abbey had been ruined by previous abbots, and Gerbert soon returned to Rheims.

A document found at the abbey states that Richard became subprior in 1159.

In 1162 Richard became prior of the abbey and remained in this position until his death in 1173.

Winfrid taught in the abbey school and at the age of 30 became a priest ; in this time, he wrote a Latin grammar, the Ars Grammatica, besides a treatise on verse and some Aldhelm-inspired riddles.

In the 13th century, the abbey and the town became an independent principality, over which the abbots ruled as territorial sovereigns ranking as Princes of the Holy Roman Empire.

The abbey became the coronation site of Norman kings, but none were buried there until Henry III, intensely devoted to the cult of the Confessor, rebuilt the abbey in Anglo-French Gothic style as a shrine to venerate King Edward the Confessor and as a suitably regal setting for Henry's own tomb, under the highest Gothic nave in England.

In 1873, the head of the abbey came to an agreement with a Parisian cheese-seller granting exclusive rights of distribution, and the cheese soon became popular.

Henry designated Westminster, where St Edward had founded the abbey, as the fixed seat of power in England and Westminster Hall duly became the greatest ceremonial space of the kingdom, where the council of nobles also met.

In the decades after its foundation the abbey was the recipient of considerable endowments, as seen from the dedication of 26 altars donated by individual benefactors and guilds and it was an important centre of pilgrimage after Dunfermline became a centre for the cult of St Margaret ( Malcolm's wife and David's mother ), from whom the monastery later claimed foundation and for which an earlier foundation charter was fabricated.

It was presided over by eleven abbots, and became financially unstable largely due to forward selling its wool crop, and the abbey was criticised for its dire material and physical state when it was visited by Archbishop John Romeyn in 1294.

When the abbey was dissolved, he retired, and later became 1st Bishop of Gloucester.

The abbey became part of the diocese of Lincoln in 1542 and was moved to the diocese of London in 1550.

With the reformation and the end of monastic services, the east end of the abbey church became redundant.

The abbey was founded in 1100 and became a double monastery, with both monks and nuns on the same site.

In the early years the Plantagenets were great benefactors of the abbey and while Isabella d ' Anjou was abbess, Henry II's widow Eleanor of Aquitaine became a nun there.

The abbey later became a prison from 1804 to 1963, in which year it was given to the French Ministry of Culture.

In 998 he established a Benedictine abbey at Sherborne and became its first abbot.

Ethelstan the Etheling, son of Ethelred the Unready, left " land at Mordune " to the abbey of Christ and St. Peter in his will of 1015, which became the site of the first Saxon parish church of St Lawrence.

England prospered during his reign and his greatest monument is Westminster, which he made the seat of his government and where he expanded the abbey as a shrine to Edward the Confessor.

Between the abbey and the river he built a palace, thereby guaranteeing that the seat of Government would be fixed at Westminster, and inevitably drawing power and wealth west out of the old City of London.

The abbey church was created a cathedral in 1966 and is the seat of the Bishop of Saint-Denis, Pascal Michel Ghislain Delannoy.

The medieval abbey is still in use today, as a museum and as the seat of the provincial government.

The abbey and its religious community flourished and were renowned as a seat of learning – especially for the children of the nobility.

The most important cities of Thurgovia in the early medieval period were Constance as the seat of the bishop, and St. Gallen for its abbey.

Savaric secured the support of Pope Celestine III for the takeover the abbey as the seat of his bishopric, replacing Bath.

Other documents mention Saint-Loup-de-Naud among the possessions of the abbey at Sens, seat of an archbishop with close political ties to the French Crown, who had Paris within his diocese.

Thus, though it lay so close to Provins, a seat of the counts of Champagne and the abbey church was completed by Henri le Libéral, comte de Champagne, the priory at Saint-Loup-de-Naud looked to Sens for its patronage: a visit from the abbot is documented in 1120.

The abbot's house, built of brick in 1483, survived as the " King's Manor " because it became the seat of the Council of the North in 1539 ; the abbots of St Mary's and the abbey featured in the medieval and early modern ballads of Robin Hood, with the abbot usually as Robin Hood's nemesis ).

Though he was less rapacious than his colleagues in profiting by the fall of Somerset, Petre acquired enormous property by the dissolution of the monasteries ; in Devonshire alone he is said to have secured ; but his principal seat was at Ingatestone which he received on the dissolution of the abbey of St. Mary's Barking.

It was the seat of the diocese of Dromore, which grew out of an abbey of Canons Regular attributed to Saint Colman in the 6th century.

Popes and emperors repeatedly favoured the abbey with privileges and estates ranging from the Alps to the North Sea, so that in a short time it became not only immensely rich, but also a seat of political influence.

The castle came to be known as the abbaye since it was the seat of the abbey of Saint-Maurice's representative.

Inis Cathaigh became not only a famous abbey but the seat of a bishopric with St. Senan as its first bishop.