Abbot of Cluny
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The Abbot of Cluny was the head of the powerful monastery of Cluny Abbey
in medieval France
. The following is a list.
Cluny Abbey
Cluny Abbey is a Benedictine monastery in Cluny, Saône-et-Loire, France. It was built in the Romanesque style, with three churches built in succession from the 10th to the early 12th centuries....
in medieval France
France
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. The following is a list.
List of abbots
| 919 | 927 | Berno |
| 927 | 942 | Odo Odo of Cluny Saint Odo of Cluny , a saint of the Roman Catholic Church, was the second abbot of Cluny. He enacted various reforms in the Cluniac monastery system of France and Italy.... |
| 942 | 964 | (948) Aymer |
| 964 | 994 | Maiolus Majolus of Cluny Saint Majolus of Cluny was an abbot of Cluny. As a youth Majolus fled his family's estates near Rietz to stay with relatives at Mâcon due to the Muslim invasions. Majolus studied at Lyon and later became archdeacon of Mâcon.Offered the bishopric of Besançon, he became a monk of Cluny instead... |
| 994 | 1049 | Odilo |
| 1049 | 1109 | Hugh I. Hugh of Cluny Hugh of Cluny was an Abbot of Cluny. He is sometimes referred to as "Hugh the Great" or "Hugh of Semur" and was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church as Saint Hugh . He was one of the most influential leaders of one of the most influential monastic orders of the Middle Ages.Abbot Hugh built the... |
| 1109 | 1122 | Pontius of Melgueil |
| 1122 | 1122 | Hugh II |
| 1122 | 1156 | Peter the Venerable Peter the Venerable Peter the Venerable , also known as Peter of Montboissier, abbot of the Benedictine abbey of Cluny, born to Blessed Raingarde in Auvergne, France. He has been honored as a saint but has never been formally canonized.-Life:Peter was "Dedicated to God" at birth and given to the monastery at... |
| 1158 | 1163 | Hugh III. |
| 1163 | 1173 | Stephan I. |
| 1173 | 1176 | Radulf de Sully |
| 1176 | 1177 | Gauthier de Châtillon |
| 1177 | 1179 | William I. |
| 1179 | 1183 | Thibaud de Vermandois Thibaud of Ostia Thibaud of Ostia was a French cardinal. His name is listed also as Théobald or Teobaldo.He entered the Order of Benedictines of the Congregation of Cluny in his youth. He was prior of the monastery of Saint-Arnoult-de-Crepy by 1169 and then abbot of Cluny from 1180 until 1184... |
| 1183 | 1199 | Hugh de Clermont |
| 1199 | 1207 | Hugh of Anjou |
| 1207 | 1215 | William II. |
| 1215 | 1220 | Giraud |
| 1220 | 1228 | Roland de Hainaut |
| 1228 | 1230 | Barthélemy de Florange |
| 1230 | 1236 | Stephan II. |
| 1230 | 1235 | Stephan III. |
| 1235 | 1244 | Hugh de Courtenay |
| 1244 | 1257 | William III. |
| 1257 | 1270 | Yves I. de Poyson |
| 1270 | 1295 | Yves II. de Chassant |
| 1295 | William IV. d'Igé | |
| 1295 | 1308 | Bertrand I. de Colombiers |
| 1308 | 1319 | Henry I. de Faultrière |
| 1319 | 1322 | Raymond de Bonn I. |
| 1322 | 1344 | Peter II. de Chastelux |
| 1344 | 1347 | Itère de Miremande |
| 1347 | 1351 | Hugh |
| 1351 | 1361 | Audrouin de La Roche |
| 1361 | 1369 | Simon I. de Brosse |
| 1369 | 1374 | John I. du Pin |
| 1374 | 1383 | Jacques de Cozan |
| 1383 | 1400 | Jean II de Damas-Cozan |
| 1400 | 1416 | Raymond II de Cadoène |
| 1416 | 1423 | Robert II de Chaudesolles |
| 1423 | 1456 | Eude de la Pierre |
| 1456 | 1480 | John de Bourbon |
| 1481 | 1510 | James d'Amboise |
| 1510 | 1518 | Geoffroy d'Amboise |
| 1518 | 1528 | Eymard Gouffier |
| 1528 | 1550 | Jean IV de Lorraine |
| 1550 | 1574 | Charles de Lorraine |
| 1575 | 1612 | Claude de Guise |
| 1612 | 1621 | Louis de Lorraine |
| 1621 | 1629 | Jacques de Veny d'Arbouze |
| 1635 | 1642 | Cardinal Richelieu |
| 1642 | 1654 | Armand de Bourbon |
| 1654 | 1661 | Jules Mazarin |
| 1661 | 1672 | Rinaldo d'Este |
| 1672 | 1683 | Henri Bertrand de Beuvron |
| 1683 | 1715 | Emmanuel Théodose de la Tour d'Auvergne Cardinal de Bouillon Emmanuel Théodose de La Tour d'Auvergne was a French prelate and diplomat, known as the Cardinal de Bouillon.-Biography:... |
| 1715 | 1747 | Henri-Oswald de la Tour d'Auvergne |
| 1747 | 1757 | Frédéric Jérôme de La Rochefoucauld |
| 1757 | 1790 | Dominique de La Rochefoucauld Dominique de La Rochefoucauld Dominique de La Rochefoucauld was a French abbot, bishop, archbishop, and Cardinal.- Before the French Revolution :... |