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    Inhabitants of Arbrissel are called Arbrisselois in French. Robert of Arbrissel, the founder of the Abbey of Fontevrault, was born in Arbrissel. Communes of...
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    Robert of Arbrissel (c. 1045 – 1116) was an itinerant preacher, and founder of Fontevraud Abbey. He was born at Arbrissel (near Retiers, Brittany) and...
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    of Anjou. It was founded in 1101 by the itinerant preacher Robert of Arbrissel. The foundation flourished and became the centre of a new monastic Order...
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    Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-307-78026-3. Dalarun, Jacques (2006). Robert of Arbrissel: Sex, Sin, and Salvation in the Middle Ages. CUA Press. ISBN 978-0-8132-1439-9...
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    Church. Born Petronilla of Craon, she became a follower of Robert of Arbrissel. After Philippa of Toulouse persuaded her husband, William IX, Duke of...
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    91) John Gualbert (995–1073) Stephen of Obazine (1084–1154) Robert of Arbrissel (c. 1045 – 1116) William of Montevergine (1085–1142) Nicholas Justiniani...
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    (2006). "Negotiating the Boundaries of Gender in Religious Life: Robert of Arbrissel and Hersende, Abelard and Heloise". Viator. 37. CMRS Center for Early...
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    November – The council of Poitiers decrees that the followers of Robert of Arbrissel have to settle down and live under a rule, leading to the foundation of...
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  • Doctor of the Church. Hersende of Champagne is co-founder (with Robert of Arbrissel) and first grand prioress of Fontevraud Abbey, mother house of the order...
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    did not have a witness to support her claim of consanguinity. Robert of Arbrissel, whom she kept correspondence with, told Ermengarde that it was her "duty...
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  • Abbess of Fontevraud, who at the death of the Order's founder, Robert of Arbrissel, in about 1117, already had under her rule 35 priories, and by the end...
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    Communes of the Ille-et-Vilaine department Acigné Amanlis Andouillé-Neuville Arbrissel Argentré-du-Plessis Aubigné Availles-sur-Seiche Baguer-Morvan Baguer-Pican...
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    Louis.) Urban further authorised itinerant preachers such as Robert of Arbrissel to spread the knowledge of Christian faith and promote the ideas of the...
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  • France. It was founded at the beginning of the 12th century by Robert of Arbrissel and dissolved in the French Revolution. It is now (2021) a privately owned...
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    threatened with excommunication. The Duchess was an admirer of Robert of Arbrissel, and persuaded William to grant him land in northern Poitou to establish...
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    (2006), "Negotiating the Boundaries of Gender in Religious Life: Robert of Arbrissel and Hersende, Abelard and Heloise", Viator, vol. 37, Los Angeles: UCLA...
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  • of a Fontevrist monastery near Orsan (modern Maisonnais) to Robert of Arbrissel at the urging of Leger, Archbishop of Bourges; Agnes became the first...
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    Mary explained "courtly love". The emphasis of the reforming Robert of Arbrissel on "matronage" to achieve his ends can explain the troubadour attitude...
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    heiress.In 1101 Gautier I count of Montsoreau gave the land to Robert of Arbrissel and Hersende of Champagne his mother in law to found the Abbey of Fontevraud...
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    of the forest of Craon together with Bernard of Thiron and Robert of Arbrissel. Here for seventeen years he lived an ascetic life, and was called Vital...
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    (the commune is now known as Fontevraud-l'Abbaye), founded by Robert of Arbrissel. The Methodist Church has chapels at Trevena and Bossiney. Formerly there...
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    Communes of the Ille-et-Vilaine department Acigné Amanlis Andouillé-Neuville Arbrissel Argentré-du-Plessis Aubigné Availles-sur-Seiche Baguer-Morvan Baguer-Pican...
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  • Approximate date Margaret, queen consort of Scotland (d. 1093) Robert of Arbrissel (d. 1116), Bretonic preacher and founder of Fontevraud Abbey Stephen,...
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    bought his office in 1076. This leads also to the flight of Robert of Arbrissel to Paris where he begins his studies. March 17 – Abdul Qadir Gilani, Persian...
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    Communes of the Ille-et-Vilaine department Acigné Amanlis Andouillé-Neuville Arbrissel Argentré-du-Plessis Aubigné Availles-sur-Seiche Baguer-Morvan Baguer-Pican...
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    Communes of the Ille-et-Vilaine department Acigné Amanlis Andouillé-Neuville Arbrissel Argentré-du-Plessis Aubigné Availles-sur-Seiche Baguer-Morvan Baguer-Pican...
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    is in La Guerche-de-Bretagne. It consists of the following communes: Arbrissel Argentré-du-Plessis Availles-sur-Seiche Bais Brielles Chelun Coësmes Domalain...
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    Sultanate of Rum Mary of Scotland, countess of Boulogne (b. 1082) Robert of Arbrissel, founder of Fontevrault Abbey Birkenmeier, John W. (2002). The Development...
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    Canuto. Fontevraud Abbey is founded by the French preacher Robert of Arbrissel. September – Ibn Bashkuwal, Andalusian biographer (d. 1183) Abu al-Bayan...
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  • Urban II confirms the foundation of the abbey of La Roë under Robert of Arbrissel as a community of canons regular. 1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo...
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