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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 22 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ABBON OF See also:

FLEURY, or ABBO FLORIACENSIS (c. 945-1004)  , a learned Frenchman, See also:born near See also:Orleans about 945 . He distinguished himself in the See also:schools of See also:Paris and See also:Reims, and was especially proficient in See also:science as known in his See also:time . He spent two years in See also:England, assisting See also:Archbishop See also:Oswald of See also:York in restoring the monastic See also:system, and was See also:abbot of See also:Romsey . After his return to See also:France he was made abbot of See also:Fleury on the See also:Loire (988) . He was twice sent to See also:Rome by See also:King See also:Robert the Pious (986, 996), and on each occasion succeeded in warding off a threatened papal See also:interdict . He was killed at La Reole in 1004, in endeavouring to quell a monkish revolt . He wrote an See also:Epitome de vitis Romanorum pontificum, besides controversial See also:treatises, letters, &c . (see See also:Migne, Patrologia See also:Latina, vol . 139) . His See also:life, written by his See also:disciple See also:Aimoin of Fleury, in which much of Abbon's See also:correspondence was reproduced, is of See also:great importance as a source for the reign of Robert II., especially with reference to the papacy (cf . Migne, op. cit. vol . 139) .

See Ch . Pfister, Etudes sur le regne de Robert le Pieux (1885) ; Cuissard-Gaucheron, " L'Ecole de Fleury-sur-Loire a la fin du io° siecle," in Memoires de la societe archiol. de l'See also:

Orleanais, xiv . (Orleans, 1875) ; A . See also:Molinier, See also:Sources de l'histoire de France .

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