Cluny in a sentence

According to some chroniclers, Hildebrand moved to Cluny after Gregory's death, which occurred in 1048; his declaration to have become a monk at Cluny must not be taken literally.

All the Cluniac houses in England and Scotland were French colonies, governed by French priors who travelled to the Abbey of Cluny to consult or be consulted (unless the abbot of Cluny chose to come to Britain, which happened rarely).

Nominations from Brett Robb for Forbes are Cluny Road, No Rocks, Zarizatiz and Outback Singalong.

The clubs running the programme are Cluny Clays, Dunfermline, Dunnikier Park, near Kirkcaldy and Elmwood, near Cupar.

It triumphed over Robbie Newlands, of Cluny Farm, Rafford, near Forres, and Glenrinnes Farms, near Dufftown.

Now, the couple are back in Aberdeenshire celebrating the milestone, with Toff posting pictures of the happy couple at Cluny yesterday.

Archbishop Guy de Bourgogne of Vienne, France, who was not a cardinal, was elected at Cluny on 2 February 1119.

By the twelfth century, the Abbey of Cluny was the head of an order consisting of 314 monasteries.

Cluny Abbey was founded by William I, Duke of Aquitaine in 910. The abbey was noted for its strict adherence to the Rule of St. Benedict.

Decline and attempted reforms For a hundred years, until the first quarter of the 13th century, the Cistercians supplanted Cluny as the most powerful order and the chief religious influence in western Europe.

Dr. Cluny MacPherson of Newfoundland Regiment brought the idea of a mask made of chemical absorbing fabric and which fitted over the entire head to England, citation and this was developed into the British Hypo helmet of June 1915.

He continued a process begun by his mother and brothers helping to establish foundations that brought reform to Scottish monasticism based on those at Cluny and he played a part in organising diocese on lines closer to those in the rest of Western Europe.

He protested his profound esteem for the Benedictines of Cluny whom he declared he loved equally as well as the other religious orders.

In the first part, he proved himself innocent of the charges of Cluny and in the second he gave his reasons for his counterattacks.

Maïeul was released in mid-August and returned to Cluny in September.

Mann, pg. 260 In 1125, accompanied by an armed following, Pons took possession of Cluny Abbey, melted down the treasures stored in the monastery, and paid his followers, who continued to terrorise the monks and the villages dependent upon the abbey.

Mann, pg. 261 Honorius personally reinvested Peter the Venerable as Abbot of Cluny.

Many abbeys of France, such as that at Cluny, had many towers of varied forms.

Monastic Reform A view of the Abbey of Cluny.

Other notable examples include Bastille (line 1), Saint-Germain-des-Prés (line 4), Cluny – La Sorbonne (line 10) and Arts et Métiers (line 11).