ABBON OF FLEURY, or ABBO FLORIACENSIS (c. 945-1004)
, a learned Frenchman, born near See also: - ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans about 945
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He distinguished himself in the schools of Paris and Reims, and was especially proficient in science as known in his See also: - TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time
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He spent two years in England, assisting Archbishop Oswald of York in restoring the monastic system, and was See also: - ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
abbot of Romsey
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After his return to France he was made abbot of Fleury on the Loire (988)
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He was twice sent to Rome by See also: - KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King Robert the Pious (986, 996), and on each occasion succeeded in warding off a threatened papal interdict
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He was killed at La Reole in 1004, in endeavouring to quell a monkish revolt
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He wrote an Epitome de vitis Romanorum pontificum, besides controversial treatises, letters, &c
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(see Migne, Patrologia Latina, vol
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139)
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His life, written by his disciple Aimoin of Fleury, in which much of Abbon's correspondence was reproduced, is of great importance as a source for the reign of Robert II., especially with reference to the papacy (cf
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Migne, op. cit. vol
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139)
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See Ch
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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' Orleanais, xiv
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(Orleans, 1875) ; A
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Molinier, Sources de l'histoire de France
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