Cîteaux

Calatrava was not subject to Cîteaux, but to Fitero's mother-house, the Cistercian Abbey of Morimond in Burgundy.

Cîteaux, formerly spelled Cisteaux, is the mother house of the Cistercian order.

He had a predominant influence and the power of enforcing everywhere exact conformity to Cîteaux in all details of the exterior life observance, chant, and customs.

Hollister, p 209–10 Stephen handed over the west wing of Cîteaux to a large group of lay brethren to cultivate the farms.

In case of any divergence of view at the chapter, the side taken by the Abbot of Cîteaux was always to prevail.

In the year 1119, Bernard was present at the first general chapter of the order convoked by Stephen of Cîteaux.

Letters of Sebastiano on the subject: citation At the same time as he was named Archbishop, Cardinal Giulio was granted the Abbey of Cîteaux.

On March 21, 1098, Robert's small group acquired a plot of marshland just south of Dijon called Cîteaux (Latin: "Cistercium".

Read, pp 94–95 The remaining monks of Cîteaux elected Alberic as their abbot, under whose leadership the abbey would find its grounding.

So great, however, was the resistance, and so serious the disturbances that ensued, that the attempt to reform Cîteaux itself and the general body of the houses had again to be abandoned, and only local projects of reform could be carried out.

The Abbot of Cîteaux was the president of the chapter.

The great church of Cîteaux Abbey, begun in around 1140, was completed in 1193.

The initial successes of the new order in the Spanish Reconquista were brilliant, and the arrangement was approved by the General Chapter at Cîteaux and successive popes, giving the Knights of Calatrava their definitive rule in 1187.

The monks of the abbey of Cluny were unhappy to see Cîteaux take the lead role among the religious orders of the Roman Catholic Church.

Tobin, pp 46 That same year, a charismatic young Burgundinian nobleman named Bernard arrived at Cîteaux with 35 of his relatives and friends to join the monastery.