The Abbot of Cluny was the head of the powerful monastery of the Abbey of Cluny in medieval France. The following is a list of occupants of the position.
The AbbotofCluny was the head of the powerful monastery of the Abbey ofCluny in medieval France. The following is a list of occupants of the position...
Odo ofCluny (French: Odon) (c. 878 – 18 November 942) was the second abbotofCluny. He enacted the various Cluniac Reforms of France and Italy. He is...
construction began in Rome. Cluny was founded by Duke William I of Aquitaine in 910. He nominated Berno as the first abbotofCluny, subject only to Pope Sergius...
Odilo ofCluny (c. 962 – 1 January 1049) was the 5th Benedictine AbbotofCluny, succeeding Mayeul and holding the post for around 54 years. During his...
AbbotofCluny, and demanded a ransom. Much venerated by his monks, his ransom was quickly obtained. The monks responded, however, once their abbot was...
Majolus ofCluny (Maieul, Mayeul, Mayeule, Mayol) (c. 906 – May 11, 994) was the fourth abbotofCluny. Majolus was very active in reforming individual...
Saint Berno ofCluny (French: Bernon) or Berno of Baume (c. 850 – 13 January 927) was the first abbotofCluny from its foundation in 909 until he died...
Hugh the Great or Hugh of Semur, was the AbbotofCluny from 1049 until his death. He was one of the most influential leaders of the monastic orders from...
1092 – 25 December 1156), also known as Peter of Montboissier, was the abbotof the Benedictine abbey ofCluny. He has been honored as a saint, though he...
preside. The AbbotofCluny retained authority over the daughter houses his order founded. By the twelfth century, the Congregation ofCluny included more...
within the Cluniac hierarchy only to the abbotofCluny himself. During this era, the abbey was led by major abbots Dom Hunaud de Gavarret and Dom Ansquitil...
Rule of Saint Benedict. The abbotofCluny was the superior of all the daughter houses, through appointed priors. One of the earliest reforms of Benedictine...
Pons of Melgueil (c. 1075 – 1126) was the seventh AbbotofCluny from 1109 to 1122. Pons was the second child of Peter I of Melgueil and Almodis of Toulouse...
subordination to the Abbey ofCluny in Burgundy. The prior of St Pancras at Lewes usually held the position of vicar-general of the AbbotofCluny for England and...
to upwards of 100 persons. The abbotsofCluny and Vendôme were, by virtue of their office, cardinals of the Roman church. In the process of time, the...
way of life. At the solicitation of William of St.-Thierry, Bernard defended the Cistercians with his Apology. Peter the Venerable, abbotofCluny, answered...
of the Alps, Innocent gained the crucial support of the major religious orders, in particular Bernard of Clairvaux's Cistercians, the AbbotofCluny Peter...
ofCluny, also known as Berno of Baume (c. 850 – 925), first abbotofCluny and saint Berno of Reichenau (c. 978 – 1048), German abbot, reformer of Gregorian...
Gerold of Lausanne (Gerald, Gerard, Giraud; died 1238 or 1239), was abbotof Molesme, abbotofCluny, bishop of Valence, and Latin patriarch of Jerusalem...
takes away a booty of 20 million dinars (approximate date). May 13 – Hugh the Great, abbotofCluny (d. 1109) Al-Kunduri, vizier of the Seljuk Empire (d...
Peter the Venerable, abbotofCluny (189) Abbot Regino of Prüm (132) Prior Richard of St. Victor (196) Cistercian Abbot Robert of Molesme (157) Robert...
pseudo prophet"). The translation was made at the behest of Peter the Venerable, abbotofCluny, and currently exists in the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal in...
buono) in the Decameron, when relating his kidnapping of the AbbotofCluny, in the second story of the tenth day: Ghino di Tacco piglia l'abate di Clignì...
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