This rule proved inconvenient when a monastery was situated in a desert or at a distance from a city, and necessity compelled the ordination of some monks.

Of these the precedence was originally yielded to the abbot of Glastonbury, until in AD 1154 Adrian IV ( Nicholas Breakspear ) granted it to the abbot of St Alban's, in which monastery he had been brought up.

From 796 until his death he was Abbot of the great monastery of St. Martin of Tours where he founded a library by obtaining copies of books from libraries in his native England.

It was not uncommon for the Merovingian, Carolingian, or later kings to make laymen abbots of monasteries ; the layman would often use the income of the monastery as his own and leave the monks a bare minimum for the necessary expenses of the foundation.

Aimoin ( c. 960-c. 1010 ), French chronicler, was born at Villefranche-de-Longchat about 960, and in early life entered the monastery of Fleury, where he became a monk and passed the greater part of his life.

After becoming a monk at the monastery at Winchester, he was appointed Abbot of Tavistock Abbey in around 1027.

Alexios became estranged from Maria, who was stripped of her imperial title and retired to a monastery, and Constantine Doukas was deprived of his status as co-emperor.

Alexius III was then confined to a monastery at Nicaea, where he died later in 1211.

A horrible reign of terror ensued, in the course of which the ex-tsaritsa Eudoxia was dragged from her monastery and publicly tried for alleged adultery, while all who had in any way befriended Alexei were impaled, broken on the wheel and otherwise lingeringly done to death.

He was put under the guardianship of his aunt Adosinda after his father's death, but one tradition relates his being put in the monastery of Samos.

His earliest years were passed in the monastery of Siresa, learning to read and write and to practice the military arts until the tuition of Lope Garcés the Pilgrim, who was repaid for his services by his former charge with the county of Pedrola when Alfonso came to the throne.

In the event it was a will that his nobles refused to carry out — instead bringing his brother Ramiro from the monastery to assume royal powers — an eventuality that Lourie suggests was Alfonso's hidden intent.

The Aragonese took Ramiro out of a monastery and made him king, marrying him without papal dispensation to Agnes, sister of the Duke of Aquitaine, then betrothing their newborn daughter to Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona, who was then named Ramiro's heir.

Their one monastery was on the top of Monte Varese, near Lago Maggiore, on the spot where their foundress, the Blessed Catarina Morigia ( or Catherine of Palanza ), had first led a solitary life.

The kindness of some monks supplied him with his first workshop, which was the vacant cell of a monastery.

Diabelli was trained to enter the priesthood and in 1800 he joined the monastery at Raitenhaslach, Bavaria.

Arbroath Abbey was the basis for the description of the ruined monastery of St Ruth in Sir Walter Scott's The Antiquary.

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

On his way from Enfide, Benedict met a monk, Romanus of Subiaco, whose monastery was on the mountain above the cliff overhanging the cave.

Bede ( ; ; 672 / 673 – 26 May 735 ), also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede (), was an English monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow ( see Monkwearmouth-Jarrow ), both in the Kingdom of Northumbria.

He is referring to the twinned monasteries of Monkwearmouth and Jarrow, near modern-day Newcastle, claimed as his birthplace, there is also a tradition that he was born at Monkton, two miles from the monastery at Jarrow.

With the ecclesiastical parishes of St Fagan's ( Trecynon ) and Aberaman carved out of the ancient parish, Aberdare had 12 Anglican churches and one Roman Catholic church, built in 1866 in Monk Street near the site of a cell attached to Penrhys monastery, and at one time had over 50 Nonconformist chapels.

In 1099, Bethlehem was captured by the Crusaders, who fortified it and built a new monastery and cloister on the north side of the Church of the Nativity.

John II built the monastery of the Pantocrator ( Almighty ) with a hospital for the poor of 50 beds.

His most famous surviving work is the Well of Moses ( 1395 – 1403 ), created for the Carthusian monastery of Champmol built by Philip the Bold just outside Dijon ( at the time-now part of the city ).

Among these was Countess Margaret of Flanders who established the monastery of Lille, while Val-Duchesse at Oudergern near Brussels was built with the wealth of Adelaide of Burgundy, Duchess of Brabant ( 1262 ).

El Escorial, the great royal monastery built by King Philip II, invited the attention of some of Europe's greatest architects and painters.

They also built another two churches and a monastery dedicated to John the Baptist, and are credited with introducing sugarcane production to the city.

However, the monastery was built after the castle and founded around the time of the first written mention of the name.

Saint George ’ s Cathedral ( Sankt-Georgs-Dom ) built on the old monastery church ’ s site, and also called Georgsdom, was consecrated in 1235.

Further south in Macedonia, near the town of Zletovo, the monastery of Lesnovo ( Lesnovo Manastir ), originally built in the 11th century, was renovated in the middle of the 14th century and a series of murals were painted.

* Marienburg ( Mosel ), a former Augustinian monastery built near the ruins of a Roman fortress in Zell an der Mosel near Trier, Germany

The region also includes the castle in Brzeg, built during the reign of the Piast dynasty — pearl of the Silesian Renaissance, the Franciscan monastery on top of Saint Anne Mountain, as well as the mediæval defence fortifications in Paczkow ( referred to as the Polish Carcassonne ).

The earliest Bonifacian vita does not mention his place of birth but says that at an early age he attended a monastery ruled by abbot Wulfhard in escancastre, or Examchester, which seems to denote Exeter, and may have been one of many monasteriola built by local landowners and churchmen ; nothing else is known of it outside the Bonifacian vitae.

The Jiaqing Chongxiu Yitongzhi ( 1843 ) specifies that this monastery, located in the province of Henan, was built in the 20th year of the Taihe era of the Northern Wei Dynasty, that is, the monastery was built in 495.

In 1487 he built a monastery at Rorschach on Lake Constance, to which he planned to move.

The Plan drawn was never actually built, and was so named because it was kept at the famous medieval monastery library, where it remains to this day.

In 1487 he built a monastery at Rorschach.

The monastery of St. Zachary and the first ducal palace and basilica of St. Mark, as well as a walled defense ( civitatis murus ) between Olivolo and Rialto were subsequently built here.

* The Martin-du-Canigou monastery is built by 1009, in present day southern France.

* The Martin-du-Canigou monastery on Mount Canigou in southern France is built in 1009.

* Shaolin Temple is founded ( according to the Continued Biographies of Eminent Monks ( 645 ) by Dàoxuān, the monastery is built on the north side of Shaoshi, the western peak of Mount Song, one of the four Sacred Mountains of China, by emperor Xiao Wen Di of the Northern Wei Dynasty in 477.