South side of the abbey, the church and the monks' cells seen from Le Bec-Hellouin
Bec Abbey, formally the Abbey of Our Lady of Bec (French: Abbaye Notre-Dame du Bec), is a Benedictine monastic foundation in the Eure département, in the Bec valley midway between the cities of Rouen and Bernay. It is located in Le Bec Hellouin, Normandy, France, and was the most influential abbey of the 12th-century Anglo-Norman kingdom.[1]
Like all abbeys, Bec maintained annals of the house but uniquely its first abbots also received individual biographies, brought together by the monk of Bec, Milo Crispin. Because of the abbey's cross-Channel influence, these hagiographic lives sometimes disclose historical information of more than local importance.
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^C. Warren Hollister, Henry I (Yale English Monarchs) 2001:16.
BecAbbey, formally the Abbey of Our Lady of Bec (French: Abbaye Notre-Dame du Bec), is a Benedictine monastic foundation in the Eure département, in the...
1086 as "Totinges". It was held partly by St Mary de Bec-Hellouin Abbey and partly by Westminster Abbey. Its domesday assets were: 5 hides. It had 5½ ploughs...
become a Benedictine monk at Bec in Normandy. He served successively as prior of BecAbbey and abbot of St Stephen's Abbey in Caen, Normandy and then as...
attract pilgrims; hence the name of the town. Saint Anselm, abbot of BecAbbey in Normandy and later to be Archbishop of Canterbury, apparently visited...
Robert du Mont confirms it was Lombardy. Roger became a monk of the Abbey of Our Lady of Bec, Normandy and skilful jurist, teaching civil and canon law in England...
in England BecAbbey, a medieval monastery in Normandy, France Bec School, a school in London Le Bec-Hellouin, a town in Normandy, France Bec or Beag, in...
was Abbott of BecAbbey in Northern France during the High Middle Ages. Prior to being Abbott, he had been first justice of the Abbey, and was elected...
Lands, Ernulf de Hesdin gave ownership of Ruislip to the Benedictine BecAbbey in 1087. He died fighting and is commemorated in annual masses held in...
Tyneham, Dorset, England. It was established as an alien priory of the Abbey of Bec. This term could mean simply an estate and does not necessarily imply...
Thomas Frique or Thomas du Bec († 5 July 1446) was the 28th abbot of Le Bec. Originally from Le BecAbbey, he was prior of the abbey before succeeding Robert...
of Brionne and subsequently a Benedictine monk. He founded the Abbey of Our Lady of Bec, Normandy. Herluin was born around 995/997 in Bonneville-Aptot...
His countryman Lanfranc of Pavia was then prior of the Benedictine abbey of Bec in Normandy. Attracted by Lanfranc's reputation, Anselm reached Normandy...
in Galicia (modern Spain) is constructed. Anselm is elected abbot of BecAbbey, in Normandy. A church council in Poitiers deposes Bishop Sylvester of...
parish of Streatham, and takes its name from the area's links to BecAbbey at Le Bec-Hellouin in Normandy. At various points in history this common has...
tortured him until he finally permitted Isabel's marriage. William died at BecAbbey in Normandy on 12 January 1103. He was succeeded by his son Eustace in...
around London by King Henry I. Richard became a monk at BecAbbey and was later abbot of Ely Abbey. The last son, Godfrey, is known only from his burial...
property to the abbey and had the church enlarged and rebuilt. He also established a Benedictine monastery. Its monks came from BecAbbey in Normandy, which...
at Bec. In 1955, Benedictine monks from St. Benedict's Abbey in Wisconsin took over the former Trappist monastery of Our Lady of Guadalupe Abbey in Pecos...
finally awarded in 1059 by Pope Nicholas II. Lanfranc, at the time prior of BecAbbey, negotiated the arrangement in Rome and it came only after William and...
BecAbbey. He was son of a bourgeois of Rouen, in Northern France. He earned a doctor decree from the University of Paris. He was first prior of Bec Abbey...
in William Rufus’ reign donated the manor of Blakenham to the great abbey of BecBec was a Benedictine monastic foundation in Normandy, not far from Rouen...
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