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    The Abbey of Saint Martial (French: Abbaye Saint-Martial, Limoges; Limousin: Abadiá de Sent Marçau de Limòtges) was a monastery in Limoges, France, founded...
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    the Abbey of Saint Martial, Limoges, where he was a central figure in the Saint Martial school, an important center of early medieval music. Much of his...
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  • The Saint Martial School was a medieval school of music composition centered in the Abbey of Saint Martial, Limoges, France. Most active from the 9th...
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    Lions, Limoges, where the relics have been stored since the dissolution of the abbey A statue of St Martial at the Ermita de San Marcial de Limoges, Femés...
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  • Saint Martial is a 3rd century Catholic and Orthodox saint and the first bishop of Limoges. Saint Martial or Saint-Martial may also refer to: Saint-Martial...
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    evolved into "Limoges", and "Lemovicinus" for the area around changed into "Limousin".[citation needed] Limoges was evangelized by Saint Martial, who came...
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    painting and sculpture, and later Limoges enamels. After the destruction of the abbey at Limoges, the remaining relics of St Valerie were gathered together...
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  • a cenobite of the Abbey of Saint Martial, Limoges, wrote an account of Psalmodius’ life, and writes that Psalmodius was a contemporary of St. Gregory...
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  • becomes part of the Haute-Vienne souveraineté. 1791 - Abbey of Saint Martial, Limoges dissolved. 1793 – Population: 20,864. 1787 - Royal Limoges A porcelain...
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    Saint-Martin de Limoges (or Saint-Martin-lez-Limoges) was a Benedictine monastery in Limoges from 1012 and a house of Feuillants from 1624 until 1791...
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    The Diocese of Limoges (Latin: Dioecesis Lemovicensis; French: Diocèse de Limoges)[pronunciation?] is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in...
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    instrumentalists. Saint Martial school, 10th to 12th century, was an important school of composition at the Abbey of Saint Martial, Limoges. It is known for...
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    is a Frankish saint closely associated with the town and abbey of Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat, in Haute-Vienne, in the Limousin region of France. He was...
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    12th- and 13th-century organum repertories of Notre Dame de Paris and the Abbey of Saint Martial, Limoges, suggesting that its antiquity may be much greater...
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  • Chronicle of Limoges (French: Grande chronique de Limoges; Latin: Maius chronicon Lemovicense), also called the Chronicle of Saint-Martial of Limoges (French:...
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  • presidency in Limoges in order to approve a new liturgy and the apostolicity of Saint Martial. The last day of the synod the relics of the saint were moved...
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  • daughter of Gerald's predecessor, Ademar. Another brother was Geoffrey I, abbot of Saint-Martial de Limoges from 991 to 998. Hildegar was the "product of a family-run...
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    Solignac Abbey, or the Abbey of Saint-Peter and Saint Paul of Solignac, is an abbey in Solignac, near Limoges, in Haute-Vienne. It was founded around 631 AD...
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    of some joca monachorum. This manuscript was once held by the Abbey of Saint Martial, Limoges. Goffart provides an edition of the joca at the end of his...
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    back to Foucher, supporter of Charles the Bald, who became viscount (vicomte) of Limoges in 876. His descendants—Limoges, Rochechouart, Mortemart and...
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    cult of saints. In the case of Limoges, the cult of Saint Martial is prominent, as miracles were attested to his shrine during the Peace Council of 994...
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    Limoges enamel has been produced at Limoges, in south-western France, over several centuries up to the present. There are two periods when it was of European...
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  • Geoffroy du Breuil of Vigeois was a 12th-century French chronicler, trained at the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Martial of Limoges, the site of a great early...
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    captured golden banner of the Aquitainian duke, Waiffre, on the Abbey of Saint Martial in Limoges.[citation needed] Pepin I of Aquitaine was buried in...
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    importance of the pilgrimage to the saint's tomb. An urban area was quickly created around the abbey built in honor of the saint. However, this monastery was...
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    Châteauroux (category Communes of Indre)
    Raoul, prince of Déols. From 920 to 1008, the Norman raids forced the monks of the abbey of Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys, founded in Brittany by Saint Gildas, to...
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    Paris, Martial to Limoges, and Austromoine to Clermont (Historia Francorum, i.30). At Clermont he is said to have converted the senator Cassius of Clermont...
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  • pilgrims to Martial's shrine at his abbey in Limoges. The region around Limoges, the Limousin, suffered heavily during the war. In 1370, Limoges was besieged...
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  • fol. 62'-64'". Troper from the church St. Salvator Mundi, St. Martial Abbey in Limoges (933–936). Retrieved 30 December 2011. "Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale...
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  • in Tulle next to the altar of Saint Martin. Pierre wrote in Latin the first chronicle of the abbey of Saint-Martin de Limoges. He had access to a now lost...
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