The Abbey of St. John, Laon (French: Abbaye Saint-Jean de Laon) was a Benedictine monastery in Laon, France, from 1128 to 1766, which replaced a nunnery...

Laon (French: [lɑ̃]) is a city in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. The Ancient Diocese of Laon, which rises a hundred metres...

large former medieval abbey church and present cathedral in the commune of Saint-Denis, a northern suburb of Paris. The building is of singular importance...

river. In the 9th century, the abbey was raided twice by Vikings, which made the monks flee to Laon. After an absence of nearly 50 years, they came back...

Sadalbergae (English Life of Sadalberga) is an anonymous Latin biography of Saint Sadalberga, founder of the Abbey of St John, Laon. Its author claims to...

the daughter of Gundoin, Duke of Alsace and his wife Saretrude. Sadalberga founded the Abbey of St John at Laon. She is the subject of a short hagiography...

Premonstratensians to take possession of a small church he had built there. Walter, abbot of St Martin's, Laon, brought a colony of his canons and acted as their...

of Xanten in 1120 on waste land that had previously belonged to the Abbey of St. Vincent, Laon, to which it had been given by a former Bishop of Laon;...

Diocese of Laon: Abbey of St. John, Laon (Abbaye Saint-Jean de Laon), nuns Abbey of St Vincent, Laon (Abbaye Saint-Vincent de Laon), monks Larreule Abbey, Hautes-Pyrénées...

of the abbey discipline. Norbert chose a valley in the Forest of Coucy (a grant from Barthélemy de Jur, the Bishop of Laon), about 10 miles from Laon...

son Charibert, Count of Laon, in 721. The first abbot was Angloardus. The Abbey ruled over a vast hinterland comprising dozens of towns, villages and hamlets...

the colour of their habit), is a religious order of canons regular of the Catholic Church founded in Prémontré near Laon in 1120 by Norbert of Xanten, who...

the earliest examples of a construction now looked upon as transitional), Notre-Dame de Paris, and the cathedrals of Bourges, Laon, Senlis and Sens; from...

Diocese of Soissons, Laon, and Saint-Quentin (Latin: Dioecesis Suessionensis, Laudunensis et Sanquintinensis; French: Diocèse de Soissons, Laon et Saint-Quentin)...

Bernard and Barthélemy of Jur, bishop of Laon. Cherlieu Abbey was founded in 1131 with the support of Renaud III, Count of Burgundy. During Bernard's lifetime...

the transept roses at St Denis and Paris. In the facades of St Denis, Chartres, Mantes, Laon and Paris, the rose was put under a circular arch. The next...

both eventually became abbots of other Benedictine abbeys: Simon at the abbey of Saint-Nicolas-au-Bois, in the Diocese of Laon, and William at Saint-Thierry...

of Bayonne (Lahonce, Pyrénées-Atlantiques) Abbey of St. Martin, Laon (Abbaye Saint-Martin de Laon), Diocese of Langres (Laon, Aisne) Lavaldieu Abbey (Abbaye...

particularly the styles of Laon and Einsiedeln Abbey. Cardine states that natural speech-rhythms provide a rhythmic basis for the declamation of Gregorian chant...

variations of her name, which are Gisele and Giselle. She was the daughter of Pepin the Short and his wife Bertrada of Laon. She was the sister of Charlemagne...

vita of Columbanus. Among numerous houses founded from Luxeuil during his tenure, he was instrumental in aiding Salaberga found her convent at Laon. After...

order, probably between the ages of 20–30. He was a canon at St. Martin's Abbey in Laon. He later became a professor of canon law in Bologna. In 1156, Pope...

at the Abbey of Saint-Étienne, Caen, Caen (11th century) Early buttresses of Noyon Cathedral Buttresses of Laon Cathedral Flying buttresses of Salisbury...

construction of the Abbey Church of Orbais. The St. Pierre-St. Paul Church was built at the end of the 12th and early 13th centuries by Jean of Orbais, one of the...

was the daughter of Saint Blandinus and Saint Sadalberga, the founder of the Abbey of St. John at Laon. She was also the sister of Saint Baldwin [fr]...

One of the earliest and anatomically convincing examples is the gaunt cadaver effigy of the medieval physician Guillaume de Harsigny (d. 1393) at Laon. Another...

and so he was given as an oblate to the abbey of St. Denis at age ten in 1091. He first trained at the priory of Saint-Denis de L'Estrée for about a decade...

Dryburgh Abbey, near Dryburgh on the banks of the River Tweed in the Scottish Borders, was nominally founded on 10 November (Martinmas) 1150 in an agreement...

Jacques I Clot Abbey in commendam. 1472-1473: Reginald or Renaud de Bourbon, Bishop of Laon. After being dismissed, he became archbishop of Narbonne 1473-1483...

Cathedral; and Laon Cathedral. Ribbed vaults were built by William the Englishman at Canterbury Cathedral and in St Faith's Chapel in Westminster Abbey (1180)...