The Abbot of Cluny was the head of the powerful monastery of the Abbey of Cluny in medieval France. The following is a list of occupants of the position...

Odo of Cluny (French: Odon) (c. 878 – 18 November 942) was the second abbot of Cluny. Born to a noble family, he served as a page at the court of Aquitaine...

construction began in Rome. Cluny was founded by Duke William I of Aquitaine in 910. He nominated Berno as the first abbot of Cluny, subject only to Pope Sergius...

Odilo of Cluny (c. 962 – 1 January 1049) was the 5th Benedictine Abbot of Cluny, succeeding Mayeul and holding the post for around 54 years. During his...

Hugh the Great or Hugh of Semur, was the Abbot of Cluny from 1049 until his death. He was one of the most influential leaders of the monastic orders from...

Abbot of Cluny, and demanded a ransom. Much venerated by his monks, his ransom was quickly obtained. The monks responded, however, once their abbot was...

 1092 – 25 December 1156), also known as Peter of Montboissier, was the abbot of the Benedictine abbey of Cluny. He has been honored as a saint though he was...

Majolus of Cluny (Maieul, Mayeul, Mayeule, Mayol) (c. 906 – May 11, 994) was the fourth abbot of Cluny. Majolus was very active in reforming individual...

preside. The Abbot of Cluny retained authority over the daughter houses his order founded. By the twelfth century, the Congregation of Cluny included more...

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...

Aymard of Cluny, also known as Aymardus of Cluny was the third abbot of Cluny. His feast day is 5 October. Very little is known about his life and the...

of Cluny was the head of an order consisting of 314 monasteries. The church at the Abbey was commenced in 1089 AD by Hugh of Cluny, the sixth abbot....

of Danish invaders who had also murdered King Edmund (866) Saint Odo of Cluny, the second Abbot of Cluny (942) Saint Mayeul (Majolus, Maieul), Abbot of...

Musée de Cluny (French pronunciation: [myze də klyni]), officially Musée de Cluny-Musée National du Moyen Âge (lit. 'Cluny Museum-National Museum of the Middle...

within the Cluniac hierarchy only to the abbot of Cluny himself. During this era, the abbey was led by major abbots Dom Hunaud de Gavarret and Dom Ansquitil...

Rule of Saint Benedict. The abbot of Cluny was the superior of all the daughter houses, through appointed priors. One of the earliest reforms of Benedictine...

of Alfonso VI of León, and one of his great-uncles was Hugh, Abbot of Cluny, one of the most influential and venerated personalities of his time. Count...

subordination to the Abbey of Cluny in Burgundy. The prior of St Pancras at Lewes usually held the position of vicar-general of the Abbot of Cluny for England and...

N22 and N122 of the Noctilien bus network. The Hôtel de Cluny was once the town house of the abbots of Cluny and is now the Musée de Cluny, an important...

of the Alps, Innocent gained the crucial support of the major religious orders, in particular Bernard of Clairvaux's Cistercians, the Abbot of Cluny Peter...

Pons of Melgueil (c. 1075 – 1126) was the seventh Abbot of Cluny from 1109 to 1122. Pons was the second child of Peter I of Melgueil and Almodis of Toulouse...

Roy, Abbot of Saint-Florent, to be the new abbot of Cluny, but the King and the Pope intervened, in accordance with the Concordat of Bologna of 1516,...

Cluniac Reforms). He showed his dislike of Odilo, Abbot of Cluny, and his followers, and his objection to persons of humble birth being made bishops. Versions...

obolus of 12 solidi. Odo of Cluny was abbot of Aurillac around 924, for a short time (in 926 he was called to Cluny upon the death of Berno). It was during...

way of life. At the solicitation of William of St.-Thierry, Bernard defended the Cistercians with his Apology. Peter the Venerable, abbot of Cluny, answered...

the first abbot of Cluny (Eastern France). He places the monastery directly under the control of the Papal See. Gabriel I becomes Pope of the Coptic...

to upwards of 100 persons. The abbots of Cluny and Vendôme were, by virtue of their office, cardinals of the Roman church. In the process of time, the...

to the authority of the Abbot of Cluny; for practical reasons, however, the Prior of Lewes was usually instructed to act for the abbot when any problems...

William, Lord of Sully. Children of Agnes and William: Eudes Archambaud Ranier (Rodolphus), Prior of La Charité-sur-Loire, Abbot of Cluny Margaret (c....

Peter the Venerable, abbot of Cluny. In the spring or summer of 1144, when Peter sent some of Robert's translations to Bernard of Clairvaux. In the accompanying...