 It was dedicated at first to Saint Peter when the body of Audoin, Archbishop of Rouen (d. 678), was buried there; the name of St Peter and St Ouen became common and finally St Ouen only.The history of the abbey, on record from the 1000, is unremarkable; a list of abbots is in "Gallia Christiana" XI, 140.In 1660 the monastery was united to the Congregation of Saint Maur, and when suppressed, in 1794, the community numbered twenty-four.