He founded a new Benedictine abbey at the Martinsberg in Altdorf ; this abbey was named Weingarten Abbey.

While the small town of Altdorf was ruled by the Reichslandvogt ( imperial steward ) of Swabia, the abbey of Weingarten won the status of an " Imperial Abbey " with privileges similar to those of an Imperial Free City.

During the rest of the year, the relic is on display in the Weingarten abbey church.

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.

The abbey eventually became the seat of the South Saxon bishopric, where it remained until after the Norman Conquest, when it was moved to Chichester by decree of the Council of London of 1075.

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.

" Some monastic families recognize one abbey as the motherhouse of the entire order.

At one time the abbey, castle, or landscape was something treasured and appreciated.

In Radcliffe ’ s The Romance of the Forest, one may follow the female protagonist, Adeline, through the forest, hidden passages and abbey dungeons, “ without exclaiming, ‘ How these antique towers and vacant courts / chill the suspended soul, till expectation wears the cast of fear !”

Matilda bore him three sons, one called Otto, and two daughters, Hedwig and Gerberga and founded many religious institutions, including the abbey of Quedlinburg where Henry is buried, and was later canonized.

In 742, one of his disciples, Sturm ( also known as Sturmi, or Sturmius ), founded the abbey of Fulda not far from Boniface's earlier missionary outpost at Fritzlar.

Scholars generally agree that these copies were written at Monte Cassino and the end of the document refers to Abbas Raynaldus cu ... who was most probably one of the two abbots of that name at the abbey during that period.

While his father had founded only one monastery ( Otto I later replaced the abbey with the Cathedral of Magdeburg ) during his 37 years of reign.

* Examples of the Romanesque basilica style are the church of Obermünster, dating from 1010, and the abbey church of St. Emmeram, built in the 13th century, remarkable as one of the few German churches with a detached bell tower.

The beautiful cloisters of the ancient abbey, one of the oldest in Germany, are still in a fair state of preservation.

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.

On the one hand, Citeaux maintained the independent organic life of the houses: each abbey had its own abbot elected by its own monks, its own community belonging to itself and not to the order in general, and its own property and finances administered without interference from outside.

A Gothic cathedral or abbey was, prior to the 20th century, generally the landmark building in its town, rising high above all the domestic structures and often surmounted by one or more towers and pinnacles and perhaps tall spires.

The current edifice is from 1476, built next to a Benedictine abbey founded in 996 oustide the city walls, and is one of the few Renaissance architecture in Modena.

Because of its royal patronage, the abbey was one of the pilgrimage centres of medieval England, and one of its richest and most important religious houses, with possessions as far away as Herefordshire and Scotland.

They were usually descended from one of the many Irish royal families, and the founding regulations of the abbey sometimes specified that the abbacy should if possible be kept within one family lineage.

The 12th-century historian William of Malmesbury, who seems unaware of any pre-existing minster, claims that one Æthelweard ( Egelwardus ), whom he describes as " ealdorman of Dorset ", had founded the abbey of Pershore in the time of King Edgar.

Two of her granddaughters, Sophie and Hedwig, would later join this abbey, one of them as abbess.

A bell tower was added to the abbey church in 2007 which contains eight bells, one of which is the largest swinging bell in the Pacific Northwest.

Prospero and one thousand other nobles have taken refuge in this walled abbey to escape the Red Death, a terrible plague with gruesome symptoms that has swept over the land.

It is one of the relatively few surviving abbey churches of the medieval period, and, although not a cathedral, is one of the biggest.

The lordship of East Witton, with the site of the abbey, was granted by Henry VIII to Matthew Stuart, 4th Earl of Lennox, and Margaret, his wife, the king's niece, and after passing through various hands, the property came into the possession of the Bruce family, one of whom was created Earl of Ailesbury in 1805.

The abbey site was granted to the Earl of Rutland, one of Henry's advisers, until it passed to the Duncombe family.