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Bec Abbey

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Bec Abbey, formally the Abbey of Our Lady of Bec (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. [1]

75 relations: Abbey, Abbey of Saint-Étienne, Caen, Abbot of Westminster, Adolphe-André Porée, Ancient Diocese of Lisieux, Anglicanism, Anselm of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury, Avranches, Bernay, Eure, C. Warren Hollister, Caen, Chester Cathedral, Communes of France, Departments of France, Duchy of Normandy, Empress Matilda, England, Eure, France, French Revolution, French Wars of Religion, Gilbert Crispin, Gilbert, Count of Brionne, Giles Constable, Goldcliff Priory, Hagiography, Herluin de Conteville, Herluin of Bec, Ivo of Chartres, Jacques d'Annebaut, Jacques-Nicolas Colbert, Jean d'Orléans-Longueville, Jean Le Veneur, Kingdom of England, Lanfranc, Le Bec-Hellouin, List of Benedictine monasteries in France, Louis I, Cardinal of Guise, Louis, Count of Clermont, Marjorie Chibnall, Milo Crispin, Monmouthshire, Morris Meredith Williams, Normandy, Normans, Odo of Bayeux, Old Norse, Olivetans, Order of Saint Benedict, ..., Orderic Vitalis, Patrologia Latina, Pope Alexander II, Povington Priory, Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester, Robert, Count of Mortain, Roger de Bailleul, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Auch, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lyon, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rouen, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sens, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toulouse, Roman Catholic Diocese of Autun, Roman Catholic Diocese of Évreux, Roman Catholic Diocese of Coutances, Roman Catholic Diocese of Metz, Roman Catholic Diocese of Orléans, Roman Catholic Diocese of Troyes, Rouen, Rouen Cathedral, St Neots Priory, Theobald of Bec, Tooting Bec, William the Conqueror, Yves-Alexandre de Marbeuf. Expand index (25 more) »

Abbey

An abbey is a complex of buildings used by members of a religious order under the governance of an abbot or abbess.

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Abbey of Saint-Étienne, Caen

The Abbey of Saint-Étienne, also known as Abbaye aux Hommes ("Men's Abbey") by contrast with the Abbaye aux Dames ("Ladies' Abbey"), is a former Benedictine monastery in the French city of Caen, Normandy, dedicated to Saint Stephen.

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Abbot of Westminster

The Abbot of Westminster was the head (abbot) of Westminster Abbey.

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Adolphe-André Porée

Adolphe-André Porée, known as Chanoine Porée (14 March 1848, Bernay – 28 February 1939, Saint-Aubin-d'Écrosville), was a French archaeologist and historian.

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Ancient Diocese of Lisieux

The Diocese of Lisieux was a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in France, centered on Lisieux, in Calvados.

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Anglicanism

Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that evolved out of the practices, liturgy and identity of the Church of England following the Protestant Reformation.

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Anselm of Canterbury

Anselm of Canterbury (1033/4-1109), also called (Anselmo d'Aosta) after his birthplace and (Anselme du Bec) after his monastery, was a Benedictine monk, abbot, philosopher and theologian of the Catholic Church, who held the office of archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109.

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Archbishop of Canterbury

The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury.

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Avranches

Avranches is a commune in the Manche department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

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Bernay, Eure

Bernay is a commune in the west of the Eure department about 50km from Évreux in northern France.

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C. Warren Hollister

Charles Warren Hollister (November 2, 1930 – September 14, 1997) was an American author and historian.

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Caen

Caen (Norman: Kaem) is a commune in northwestern France.

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Chester Cathedral

Chester Cathedral is a Church of England cathedral and the mother church of the Diocese of Chester.

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Communes of France

The commune is a level of administrative division in the French Republic.

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Departments of France

In the administrative divisions of France, the department (département) is one of the three levels of government below the national level ("territorial collectivities"), between the administrative regions and the commune.

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Duchy of Normandy

The Duchy of Normandy grew out of the 911 Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between King Charles III of West Francia and Rollo, leader of the Vikings.

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Empress Matilda

Empress Matilda (c. 7 February 110210 September 1167), also known as the Empress Maude, was the claimant to the English throne during the civil war known as the Anarchy.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Eure

Eure is a department in the north of France named after the river Eure.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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French Revolution

The French Revolution (Révolution française) was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France and its colonies that lasted from 1789 until 1799.

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French Wars of Religion

The French Wars of Religion refers to a prolonged period of war and popular unrest between Roman Catholics and Huguenots (Reformed/Calvinist Protestants) in the Kingdom of France between 1562 and 1598.

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Gilbert Crispin

Gilbert Crispin (1055 – 1117) was a Christian author and Anglo-Norman monk, appointed by Archbishop Lanfranc in 1085 to be the abbot, proctor and servant of Westminster Abbey, England.

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Gilbert, Count of Brionne

Gilbert (or Giselbert) de Brionne, 2nd Count of Eu, 2nd Count of Brionne (&ndash), was an influential Norman Nobleman in the Duchy of Normandy in Northern France.

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Giles Constable

Giles Constable (born June 1, 1929 in London) is a historian of the Middle Ages.

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Goldcliff Priory

Goldcliff Priory was a Benedictine monastery in Goldcliff, Newport, South Wales, founded in 1113 by Robert de Chandos and subject to the Abbey of Bec in Normandy.

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Hagiography

A hagiography is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical leader.

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Herluin de Conteville

Herluin de Conteville (1001–1066), also sometimes listed as Herlwin of Conteville, was the stepfather of William the Conqueror, and the father of Odo of Bayeux and Robert, Count of Mortain, both of whom became prominent during William's reign.

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Herluin of Bec

Herluin otherwise Hellouin (995/ 997–August 26, 1078) was a knight at the court of Gilbert of Brionne and subsequently a Benedictine monk.

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Ivo of Chartres

Saint Ivo of Chartres (also Ives, Yves, or Yvo; Ivo Carnutensis; 1040 – 23 December 1115) was the Bishop of Chartres, France from 1090 until his death, and an important canonist during the Investiture Crisis.

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Jacques d'Annebaut

Jacques d'Annebaut (Denebaud, Anebault and Annebault) (died 1557) was a French Cardinal.

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Jacques-Nicolas Colbert

Jacques-Nicolas Colbert (14 February 1655, in Paris – 10 December 1707, in Paris) was a French churchman.

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Jean d'Orléans-Longueville

Jean d'Orléans-Longueville (Château de Parthenay 1484 — Tarascon 24 September 1533), Cardinal de Longueville was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church for six months in 1533.

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Jean Le Veneur

Jean Le Veneur (died 8 August 1543), son of a Norman baron, was a French Abbot, Bishop, Courtier, royal official, and Roman Catholic cardinal.

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Kingdom of England

The Kingdom of England (French: Royaume d'Angleterre; Danish: Kongeriget England; German: Königreich England) was a sovereign state on the island of Great Britain from the 10th century—when it emerged from various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms—until 1707, when it united with Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.

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Lanfranc

Lanfranc (1005 1010 – 24 May 1089) was a celebrated Italian jurist who renounced his career to become a Benedictine monk at Bec in Normandy. He served successively as prior of Bec Abbey and abbot of St Stephen in Normandy and then as archbishop of Canterbury in England, following its Conquest by William the Conqueror. He is also variously known as (Lanfranco di Pavia), (Lanfranc du Bec), and (Lanfrancus Cantuariensis).

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Le Bec-Hellouin

Le Bec-Hellouin is a commune in the department of Eure in the Normandy region in northern France.

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List of Benedictine monasteries in France

This is a list of Benedictine monasteries, extant and non-extant, in the present territory of France.

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Louis I, Cardinal of Guise

Louis de Lorraine (21 October 1527, Joinville, Champagne – 29 March 1578, Paris) was the fourth son of Claude, Duke of Guise and Antoinette de Bourbon, and the younger brother of Charles of Guise, Cardinal of Lorraine, and Mary of Guise, queen consort of King James V of Scotland.

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Louis, Count of Clermont

Louis de Bourbon (15 June 1709 – 16 June 1771) was a member of the cadet branch of the then reigning House of Bourbon.

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Marjorie Chibnall

Marjorie Morgan McCallum Chibnall (27 September 1915 – 23 June 2012) was an English historian, medievalist and Latin translator.

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Milo Crispin

Milo Crispin (d. 1149?) was cantor of the Benedictine Abbey of Bec.

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Monmouthshire

Monmouthshire (Sir Fynwy) is a county in south east Wales.

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Morris Meredith Williams

Morris Meredith Williams (1881–1973) was a British painter and illustrator.

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Normandy

Normandy (Normandie,, Norman: Normaundie, from Old French Normanz, plural of Normant, originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is one of the 18 regions of France, roughly referring to the historical Duchy of Normandy.

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Normans

The Normans (Norman: Normaunds; Normands; Normanni) were the people who, in the 10th and 11th centuries, gave their name to Normandy, a region in France.

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Odo of Bayeux

Odo of Bayeux (died 1097), Earl of Kent and Bishop of Bayeux, was the half-brother of William the Conqueror, and was, for a time, second in power after the King of England.

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Old Norse

Old Norse was a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements from about the 9th to the 13th century.

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Olivetans

The Olivetans, or the Order of Our Lady of Mount Olivet, are a monastic order formally recognised in 1344.

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Order of Saint Benedict

The Order of Saint Benedict (OSB; Latin: Ordo Sancti Benedicti), also known as the Black Monksin reference to the colour of its members' habitsis a Catholic religious order of independent monastic communities that observe the Rule of Saint Benedict.

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Orderic Vitalis

Orderic Vitalis (Ordericus Vitalis; 1075 –) was an English chronicler and Benedictine monk who wrote one of the great contemporary chronicles of 11th- and 12th-century Normandy and Anglo-Norman England.

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Patrologia Latina

The Patrologia Latina (Latin for The Latin Patrology) is an enormous collection of the writings of the Church Fathers and other ecclesiastical writers published by Jacques-Paul Migne between 1841 and 1855, with indices published between 1862 and 1865.

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Pope Alexander II

Pope Alexander II (1010/1015 – 21 April 1073), born Anselm of Baggio (Anselmo da Baggio), was Pope from 30 September 1061 to his death in 1073.

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Povington Priory

Povington Priory was a Benedictine priory in Tyneham, Dorset, England.

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Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester

Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester (– 5 June 1118), also known as Robert of Meulan, Count of Meulan, was a powerful Norman nobleman, one of the companions of William the Conqueror during the Norman Conquest of England, and was revered as one of the wisest men of his age.

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Robert, Count of Mortain

Robert, Count of Mortain, 2nd Earl of Cornwall (–) was a Norman nobleman and the half-brother (on his mother's side) of King William the Conqueror.

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Roger de Bailleul

Roger de Bailleul (died 25 September 1179) was a medieval Benedictine monk, abbot of Bec, and archbishop-elect of Canterbury.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Auch

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Auch-Condom-Lectoure-Lombez (Latin: Archidioecesis Auxitana-Condomiensis-Lectoriensis-Lomberiensis; French: Archidiocèse d'Auch-Condom-Lectoure-Lombez), more commonly known as the Archdiocese of Auch, is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church in France.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lyon

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lyon (Latin: Archidioecesis Lugdunensis; French: Archidiocèse de Lyon), formerly the Archdiocese of Lyon–Vienne–Embrun, is a Roman Catholic Metropolitan archdiocese in France.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rouen

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rouen (Latin: Archidioecesis Rothomagensis; French: Archidiocèse de Rouen) is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sens

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sens and Auxerre (Latin: Archidioecesis Senonensis et Antissiodorensis; French: Archidiocèse de Sens et Auxerre) is a Latin Rite Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in France.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toulouse

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toulouse (–Saint Bertrand de Comminges–Rieux) (Archidioecesis Tolosana (–Convenarum–Rivensis); French: Archidiocèse de Toulouse (–Saint-Bertrand de Comminges–Rieux-Volvestre); Occitan: Archidiocèsi de Tolosa (–Sent Bertran de Comenge–Rius (Volvèstre))) is an archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in France.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Autun

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Autun (–Chalon-sur-Saône–Mâcon–Cluny) (Latin: Dioecesis Augustodunensis (–Cabillonensis–Matisconensis–Cluniacensis); French: Diocèse d'Autun (–Chalon-sur-Saône–Mâcon–Cluny)), more simply known as the Diocese of Autun, is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Évreux

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Évreux (Latin: Dioecesis Ebroicensis; French: Diocèse d'Evreux) is a Roman Catholic diocese in France.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Coutances

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Coutances (–Avranches) (Latin: Dioecesis Constantiensis (–Abrincensis); French: Diocèse de Coutances (–Avranches)) is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in France.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Metz

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Metz (Latin: Dioecesis Metensis; French: Diocèse de Metz) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Orléans

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Orléans (Latin: Dioecesis Aurelianensis; French: Diocèse d'Orléans) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Troyes

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Troyes (Latin: Dioecesis Trecensis; French: Diocèse de Troyes) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in Troyes, France.

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Rouen

Rouen (Frankish: Rodomo; Rotomagus, Rothomagus) is a city on the River Seine in the north of France.

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Rouen Cathedral

Rouen Cathedral (primatiale Notre-Dame de l'Assomption de Rouen) is a Roman Catholic church in Rouen, Normandy, France.

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St Neots Priory

St Neots Priory was a Benedictine monastery beside the town of St Neots in the historic county of Huntingdonshire, now a non-metropolitan district in the English county of Cambridgeshire.

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Theobald of Bec

Theobald of Bec (c. 1090 – 18 April 1161) was a Norman archbishop of Canterbury from 1139 to 1161.

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Tooting Bec

Tooting Bec is in the London Borough of Wandsworth, south London, England.

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William the Conqueror

William I (c. 1028Bates William the Conqueror p. 33 – 9 September 1087), usually known as William the Conqueror and sometimes William the Bastard, was the first Norman King of England, reigning from 1066 until his death in 1087.

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Yves-Alexandre de Marbeuf

Yves-Alexandre de Marbeuf (Rennes, 1734-Lübeck, 1799) was a French bishop of Autun and archbishop of Lyon, and statesman.

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Redirects here:

Abbaye de Notre-Dame du Bec, Abbaye du Bec, Abbey of Bec, Abbey of Bec-Hellouin, Abbot of Bec, Monastery of Bec, Paul-Emmanuel Clénet.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bec_Abbey

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