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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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    French Duchy 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...
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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 the...
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    Jacques (2006). Robert of Arbrissel: Sex, Sin, and Salvation in the Middle Ages. CUA Press. ISBN 978-0-8132-1439-9. Churchill, Leigh, The Birth of Europe, Paternoster...
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    Life: Robert of Arbrissel and Hersende, Abelard and Heloise". Viator. 37. CMRS Center for Early Global Studies: 113–148. Mills, Robert (2015), Seeing...
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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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    Huesca. Phayao, a modern-day province of Thailand, is founded as a city-state kingdom. February – Robert of Arbrissel founds a monastery at La Roë. The first...
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    from Robert of Arbrissel includes over 100 biblical references as well as references to religious leaders and Roman poets, showing that Robert knew Ermengarde...
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    hand of Ermengarde, Elias's daughter and sole heiress.In 1101 Gautier I count of Montsoreau gave the land to Robert of Arbrissel and Hersende of Champagne...
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    Pope Urban II (redirect from Otho of Lagery)
    succeed Philip instead of Louis.) Urban further authorised itinerant preachers such as Robert of Arbrissel to spread the knowledge of Christian faith and...
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  • Amesbury Abbey (category Order of Fontevraud)
    analogous case of the Order of Fontevraud, its head was the Abbess of Fontevraud, who at the death of the Order's founder, Robert of Arbrissel, in about 1117...
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  • Orsan Priory (redirect from Priory of Orsan)
    Maisonnais, Cher, 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)...
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  • Champagne was the co-founder (with Robert of Arbrissel) and first grand prioress of Fontevraud Abbey, mother house of the order of Fontevraud, in the 12th century...
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  • queen consort of Scotland (d. 1093) Robert of Arbrissel (d. 1116), Bretonic preacher and founder of Fontevraud Abbey Stephen, Count of Blois (d. 1102)...
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    of Emperor Henry IV in Rome choose Theodoric as his successor. November – The council of Poitiers decrees that the followers of Robert of Arbrissel have...
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    who had 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...
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    were 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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    Gualbert (995–1073) Stephen of Obazine (1084–1154) Robert of Arbrissel (c. 1045 – 1116) William of Montevergine (1085–1142) Nicholas Justiniani (fl. 1153–1179)...
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    Collegiate Church of St. Evroul in Mortain. He resigned his prebend to embrace an eremitical life under Robert of Arbrissel in the forest of Craon, located...
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    feast of Hanseatic League cities on the mediaeval first day of spring Blessed Maria Adeodata Pisani Blessed Robert of Arbrissel, founder of Fontevraud...
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  • venerated by some lay Catholics Robert of Arbrissel, founder of Fontevraud Abbey Albinus of Angers, late antique Abbot of Angers, born in Vannes, commemorated...
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    name San 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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  • the foundation of a Fontevrist monastery near Orsan (modern Maisonnais) to Robert of Arbrissel at the urging of Leger, Archbishop of Bourges; Agnes became...
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    Troubadour (category Music of Galicia)
    devotion to Mary explained "courtly love". The emphasis of the reforming Robert of Arbrissel on "matronage" to achieve his ends can explain the troubadour...
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  • Amesbury Priory (category House of Plantagenet)
    priors. The head of the Order of Fontevraud was the Abbess of Fontevraud. At the death in about 1117 of the founder, Robert of Arbrissel, she already had...
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    Tintagel (category Headlands of Cornwall)
    held the patronage of Tintagel during the Middle Ages (the commune is now known as Fontevraud-l'Abbaye), founded by Robert of Arbrissel. The Methodist Church...
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  • of Emperor Henry IV in Rome choose Theodoric as his successor. November – The council of Poitiers decrees that the followers of Robert of Arbrissel have...
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    leaders of the hermit colony of the forest of Craon together with Bernard of Thiron and Robert of Arbrissel. Here for seventeen years he lived an ascetic...
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    Malik Shah, Seljuk ruler of the Sultanate of Rum Mary of Scotland, countess of Boulogne (b. 1082) Robert of Arbrissel, founder of Fontevrault Abbey Birkenmeier...
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