Saint Berno of Cluny (French: Bernon) or Berno of Baume (c. 850 – 13 January 927) was the first abbot of Cluny from its foundation in 909 until he died in 927. He began the tradition of the Cluniac reforms which his successors spread across Europe.
Berno was first a monk at St. Martin's Abbey, Autun, and then at Baume Abbey about 886. In 890, he founded the monastery of Gigny on his own estates, and others at Bourg-Dieu and Massay. In 910, William I of Aquitaine, founder of Cluny, nominated him abbot of the new foundation. Berno placed the monastery under the Benedictine rule (founded by Benedict of Nursia and reformed by Benedict of Aniane).
He resigned as abbot in 925, his abbeys being divided between his relative Vido and his disciple Odo of Cluny.
He is regarded as a saint, with his feast day on 13 January.
construction began in Rome. Cluny was founded by Duke William I of Aquitaine in 910. He nominated Berno as the first abbot ofCluny, subject only to Pope Sergius...
Abbot Berno left Baume to found Cluny Abbey, taking some of the monks with him. It is not clear at what point exactly Odo left Baume for Cluny. Berno had...
William I, Duke of Aquitaine (875-918) had acquired a piece of land in Burgundy. In 910 he founded Cluny Abbey and asked Abbot Bernoof Baume Abbey to...
name of Hugh of Autun. His birthdate is unknown. He was a native of Poitiers in France. He died in the year 930. He was a friend ofBernoofCluny, the...
The Abbot ofCluny was the head of the powerful monastery of the Abbey ofCluny in medieval France. The following is a list of occupants of the position...
Frankish margrave (approximate date) Arnulf of Carinthia, king of the East Frankish Kingdom (d. 899) BernoofCluny, Frankish abbot (approximate date) Du Guangting...
begun with BernoofCluny at the beginning of the 10th century, but the monasteries reformed by the monks ofCluny during the tenures of Odo and Aymard...
Anshi, empress consort of Japan (d. 964) January 13 – BernoofCluny, Frankish monk and abbot January 14 – Wang Yanhan, king of Min (Ten Kingdoms) May...
(b. 645) 858 – Æthelwulf, king of Wessex 888 – Charles the Fat, Frankish king and emperor (b. 839) 927 – BernoofCluny, Frankish monk and abbot 1001 –...
January 13 – BernoofCluny, Frankish monk and abbot January 14 – Wang Yanhan, king of Min (Ten Kingdoms) May 27 – Simeon I, emperor (tsar) of the Bulgarian...
(d. 899) BernoofCluny, Frankish abbot (approximate date) Du Guangting, Chinese Taoist priest and writer (d. 933) Gerolf of Holland, count of Friesland...
nominates Berno as the first abbot ofCluny (Eastern France). He places the monastery directly under the control of the Papal See. Gabriel I becomes Pope of the...
later called from Baume to found Cluny Abbey in 910, is generally credited with being its founder, about 890. Berno was confirmed as abbot in 895 by Pope...
with neumes of St Gall by Bernoof Reichenau in a collection of the Abbey Saint Peter at Merseburg transferred to the Cistercian Abbey of Altzelle (ca...
Bishop of Gerona Ingelwinus, Bishop of Paris Edenulfus, Bishop of Laon Adebertus, Bishop of Senlis Berno, Bishop of Chalons Maricus, Bishop of Béziers...
song") was a tradition of lyric- and song-writing in Germany and Austria that flourished in the Middle High German period. This period of medieval German literature...
made to such as consisted of rhymed prose merely. An example of this kind is in the Offices of Ulrich, composed by Abbot Bernoof Reichenau (d. 1048); the...
either to the secular polyphonic French songs of late medieval and Renaissance music or to a specific style of French pop music which emerged in the 1950s...
(1940). "Grimbald of St. Bertin's". The English Historical Review. 55 (220): 531. JSTOR 554293. Odo ofCluny. The Life of Saint Gerald of Aurillac (Gerald...
literature of his time. He is usually credited with two major works of the Carolingian period: the Liber Hymnorum, which includes an important collection of early...
Roche & Roche 1981, p. 97. Brockett, Clyde; Huglo, Michel (2001). "Odo ofCluny". Grove Music Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630...
Peter the Venerable, abbot ofCluny (189) Abbot Regino of Prüm (132) Prior Richard of St. Victor (196) Cistercian Abbot Robert of Molesme (157) Robert the...
Guido of Arezzo (Italian: Guido d'Arezzo; c. 991–992 – after 1033) was an Italian music theorist and pedagogue of High medieval music. A Benedictine monk...
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