Beginning in a hunting preserve donated by William the Pious, this group received a dispensation from the constitutions of Louis the Pious at the behest of St. Benedict of Aniane. Led by Pons and Peter the Venerable, this order's chief duty was offering laus perennis and, at its height, almost one thousand houses throughout Europe were attached to this order and it owned the largest building in Europe. Free from lay oversight and answering only to the Pope, they were a vital force in the great r
Beginning in a hunting preserve donated by William the Pious, this group received a dispensation from the constitutions of Louis the Pious at the behest of St. Benedict of Aniane. Led by Pons and Peter the Venerable, this order's chief duty was offering laus perennis and, at its height, almost one thousand houses throughout Europe were attached to this order and it owned the largest building in Europe. Free from lay oversight and answering only to the Pope, they were a vital force in the great reform program of Gregory VII. For ten points, name this monastic order, whose original abbey was founded in 910 by the monk Berno and whose buildings were largely destroyed during the French Revolution.
Beginning in a hunting preserve donated by William the Pious, this group received a dispensation from the constitutions of Louis the Pious at the behest of St. Benedict of Aniane.
{Cluniac} order (accept {Cluny})