Henri Jean-Baptiste Grégoire (French: [ɑ̃ʁi ʒɑ̃ batist ɡʁeɡwaʁ]; 4 December 1750 – 28 May 1831), often referred to as the Abbé Grégoire, was a French...
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of the King, he was legitimized and made Duke of Angoulême. Henri would later serve as Abbot of La Chaise-Dieu, Grand Prior of France of the Sovereign Order...
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Abbé Pierre (redirect from Henri Grouès)
Abbé Pierre (Abbot Pierre), GOQ (born Henri Marie Joseph Grouès; 5 August 1912 – 22 January 2007) was a French Catholic priest. He was a member of the...
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Henri de Lorraine (20 March 1601 – 25 July 1666, Royaumont Abbey), known as Cadet la Perle, was a French nobleman. He was count of Harcourt, count of...
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Nicolas-Pierre-Henri de Montfaucon de Villars (1635 or 1638 –1673), the abbot of Villars, also known as Henri de Montfaucon de Villars, was a French abbot and writer...
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The Abbot of Cluny was the head of the powerful monastery of the Abbey of Cluny in medieval France. The following is a list of occupants of the position...
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6 days old Henri, Knight of the Order of Malta, Maréchal des Armées et Camps du Roi, Abbot of Savigny (died in 1652) François-Henri, Abbot of Savigny...
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Augustin de Lestrange (redirect from Louis-Henri de Lestrange)
Louis-Henri de Lestrange) (born in 1754, in the Château de Colombier-le-Vieux, Ardèche, France; died at Lyon, 16 July 1827) was a French Trappist abbot, an...
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Henri Louis Baels (18 January 1878 – 14 June 1951), was a Belgian Catholic Party politician, and ship-owner from Ostend. Baels was born on 18 January...
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Henry of Marcy (redirect from Henri d'Albano)
Marcy, or Henry de Marsiac, (c. 1136 – 1 January 1189) was a Cistercian abbot, first of Hautecombe in Savoy (1160–1177), and then of Clairvaux, from 1177...
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Henri-Marie Boudon (14 January 1624 – 31 August 1702) was a 17th-century Roman Catholic French abbot and spiritual author. Boudon was born in La Fère in...
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superior general or motherhouse with universal jurisdiction but elect an Abbot Primate to represent themselves to the Vatican and to the world. Benedictine...
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Frédéric (1702–1764) Marshal of France (1757); Pierre Henri de Montmorency-Luxembourg (1663–1700), abbot of Saint-Michel d'Orcamp; Paul Sigismond de Montmorency-Luxembourg...
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Pope Urban V (category Benedictine abbots)
(1357–1366), Guillaume Grimond became Vicar General of Uzès. Guillaume was named abbot of the monastery of Saint-Germain en Auxerre on 13 February 1352 by Pope...
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Claraevallensis; 1090 – 20 August 1153), venerated as Saint Bernard, was an abbot, mystic, co-founder of the Knights Templar, and a major leader in the reform...
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Flavigny Abbey (redirect from Abbot of Flavigny)
interregnum, the Abbot Hugh succeeded to the office. He wrote a Chronicle, a Martyrology and a Necrology, but according to church historian Henri Leclercq they...
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Bec Abbey (redirect from Abbot of Bec)
founded in 1034 by Saint Herluin, whose life was written by Gilbert Crispin, Abbot of Westminster, formerly of Bec, and collated with three other lives by...
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Abbey of Saint Genevieve (redirect from Abbot of Sainte Geneviève)
cellarer, and became Abbot of Ste-Geneviève; and Marcel, successively canon at St-Victor and Ste-Geneviève, was in 1198 made Abbot of Cisoing. In later...
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Henry de Sully (redirect from Henry de Sully (abbot))
Henry or Henri de Sully may refer to: Henry de Sully (died 1189), abbot of Fécamp, bishop-designate of Salisbury and archbishop-elect of York Henry de...
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List of Mont-Saint-Michel abbey abbots, of the Benedict order, starting in 966 after the removal by Duke Richard I of Normandy of the previous order, present...
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Henry, Count of Portugal (redirect from Henri, Count of Portugal)
Henry (Portuguese: Henrique, French: Henri; c. 1066 – 22 May 1112), Count of Portugal, was the first member of the Capetian House of Burgundy to rule...
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Basilica of Saint-Denis (section Abbots)
were brought back again to the abbey in 1819. In the 12th century, the Abbot Suger rebuilt portions of the abbey church using innovative structural and...
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House of Guise. Charles III of Elbeuf (1620–4 May 1692) Henri (1622–3 April 1648) never married; Abbot of Hombieres François Louis, Count of Harcourt (1623–27...
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Luxeuil Abbey (redirect from Abbot of Luxeuil)
years served as the parish church of Luxeuil-les-Bains. For a list of abbots, see Henri Baumont, Étude historique sur l'abbaye de Luxeuil (590–1790) (Luxeuil...
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Cîteaux Abbey (redirect from Abbot of Cîteaux)
Burgundy. They were led by Saint Robert of Molesme, who became the first abbot. The site was wooded and swampy, in a sparsely populated area. The toponym...
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Abbott Handerson Thayer (redirect from Abbot Handerson Thayer)
Paris, where he studied for four years at the École des Beaux-Arts, with Henri Lehmann and Jean-Léon Gérôme, and where the American artist George de Forest...
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Henri-Emmanuel de Roquette (c. 1655 – 4 March 1725) was a French churchman. A doctor at the Sorbonne and a preacher, he became abbot of the abbey of...
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Henri de Saint-Nectaire, 1st Duke of La Ferté-Senneterre (1599 – 27 September 1681) was a marshal of France and governor of Lorraine. The son of Henri...
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Prosper Guéranger (redirect from Abbot Gueranger)
Tulle, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, Charles Forbes René de Montalembert and Louis Veuillot, were all interested in the abbot's projects and even shared...
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Corbie Abbey (redirect from Abbot of Corbie)
fostered there was carried forward at Corbie. Theodefrid was the first abbot. The rule of the founders was based on the Benedictine rule, as Columbanus...
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