Cluny Abbey was founded in Burgundy by William I, Duke of Aquitaine, who gave the land and placed the monastery directly under the authority of the pope rather than under local bishops or nobles. Its first abbot, Berno, followed the Rule of Saint Benedict, and Cluny soon became the head of a reform movement that spread to hundreds of dependent houses across Europe. Under abbots such as Odilo and Hugh, it grew very wealthy and powerful, and its third church, Cluny III, was for centuries the largest church in Christendom. The abbey was sacked in the French Revolution and mostly demolished, leaving only fragments.
Before and after
- 10th centuryConstruction of Pannonhalma Archabbey
- c. 907 CEOrigins of Bratislava
- from 907 CE to 960 CEFive Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period
- from 909 CE to 1171Fatimid Caliphate
- 2 September 909 CEConstruction of Cluny Abbey
- from 910 CE to 1833Kingdom of Leon
- c. 910sAl-Razi distinguishes smallpox from measles
- from 913 CE to 927 CEByzantine–Bulgarian War of 913–927
- from 916 CE to 1125Liao dynasty
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