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Cistercians

Roman Catholic order of the Benedictine reform in the tradition of the monastery of Citaux

48 dated entries naming Cistercians, drawn from 41 separate years between 1028 CE and 1929 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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11th century

  • 1028Robert of Molesme, founder of the Cistercian Order (died 1111)source
  • 1089March 21 – Cîteaux Abbey, the first Cistercian monastery, is established by a group of French monks under Robert of Molesme in southern France.source
  • 1098March 21 – Cîteaux Abbey, located in Saint-Nicolas-lès-Cîteaux, is founded by Robert of Molesme, founder of the Cistercian Order.source

12th century

  • 1110Aelred of Rievaulx, English Cistercian monk and abbot (died 1167)source
  • 1114Pontigny Abbey, a Cistercian monastery, is founded (located in Burgundy).source
  • 1117Maurice of Carnoet, French Cistercian abbot (died 1191)source
  • 1121Ascelina, French Cistercian nun and mystic (died 1195)source
  • 1128November 24 – Waverley Abbey is founded by Bishop William Giffard in the south of England. The first abbot and 12 Cistercian monks are brought from L'Aumône Abbey in Normandy.source
  • 1131May 9 – Tintern Abbey is founded in Wales by Cistercian monks in the Wye Valley.source
  • 1132Basingwerk Abbey originally Benedictine, and later Cistercian, is founded near Holywell in Wales.source
  • 1132March 5 – Rievaulx Abbey is founded by the Cistercian order, near Helmsley in Yorkshire.source
  • 1132December 27 – Fountains Abbey soon to join the Cistercian order, is founded near Ripon in Yorkshire.source
  • 1136Melrose Abbey (located in the Scottish Borders) is founded by Cistercian monks at the request of David.source
  • 1140The first Cistercian monastery in Spain is founded in Fitero. The order enjoys a rapid expansion in the region in the following 15 years.source
  • 1142Foundation of the first Cistercian house in Ireland at Mellifont, on land given by the King of Airgíalla. Abbey completed in 1157. The Cistercians were brought into Ireland by Saint Malachysource
  • 1145Woburn Abbey is founded by the Cistercians in England. A colony of monks arrive from Fountains Abbey to establish a community that will survive until 1234.source
  • 1145Adam of Perseigne, French Cistercian abbot (died 1221)source
  • 1147Congregation of Savigny is affiliated to the Cistercians.source
  • 1147The community at St. Mary's Abbey (Dublin) (originally Savigniac) joined the Cistercian order.source
  • 1148Baltinglass Abbey founded by the Cistercians in Baltinglasssource
  • 1154Abbeydorney Abbey, established by the Cistercian Order north of the modern village of Abbeydorney.source
  • 1157The earliest Irish land charter to survive is that of the grant in 1157 of land to the Cistercians in Newry, which lay in Uí Echach, by the High King Muirchertach Mac Lochlainnsource
  • 1157Completion and consecration of Mellifont Abbey, the first Cistercian foundation in Ireland.source
  • 1163Loccum Abbey in Hanover is founded as a Cistercian house, by abbot Ekkehard.source
  • 1173Approximate date – King Béla III of Hungary invites Cistercian and Premonstratensian monks to Hungary. They introduce advanced agricultural methods in the realm.source
  • 1177Byland Abbey is established on its final site in Yorkshire, England, by the Cistercians.source
  • 1178July 17 – Saracen pirates, from the Balearic Islands, raid the Cistercian monastery of Saint Honorat on the Lérins Islands, and the city of Toulon, killing an estimated 300 and taking captives. The surviving captives are freed from the Balearic Islands in 1185.source
  • 1182The Kilcooly Abbey is founded, when the King of Thomond Donal Mor O’Brien granted lands to the Cistercians, to build one in Country Tipperary.source
  • 1190Knockmoy Abbey was founded as a Cistercian abbey by the King of Connacht, Cathal Crobhdearg Ua Conchobair, in what is now Abbeyknockmoysource
  • 1190Ida of Nivelles, Belgian Cistercian nun and mystic (died 1231)source

13th century

  • 1202Rueda Abbey is founded by Cistercians at Sástago, in the Kingdom of Aragon (modern Spain).source
  • 1204The Cistercian convent of Port-Royal-des-Champs is established.source
  • 1212Fontenelle Abbey, a Cistercian nunnery in Maing, Nord, France, is founded as a small oratory by two sisters Agnes and Jeanne, daughters of Hélin, seigneur d'Aulnoy.source
  • 1212Monastic reform orders like the Cistercians continued to expand in Ireland.source
  • 1216The abbots of Jerpoint and Mellifont Abbeys are deposed by the Cistercians' general chapter.source
  • 1217The Pentemont Abbey is founded south-west of Beauvais in an orchard by Philip of Dreux, the famed crusader bishop of Beauvais, who wished to found a convent of the Cistercian order.source
  • 1221Adam of Perseigne, French Cistercian abbot (born 1145)source
  • 1222The Cistercian convent in Alcobaça, Portugal, is completed.source
  • 1250June 11 – Alice of Schaerbeek, Flemish Cistercian lay sister (born c. 1220)source
  • 1254November 1 – Edward marries Eleanor of Castile in the Cistercian monastery of Las Huelgas at Burgos.source

14th century

  • 1334King Aed of Tir Conaill dies in the habit of a Cistercian at his monastery of Assaroe.source
  • 1335Pope Benedict XII begins to reform the Cistercians.source

15th century

  • 1421April 24 – The Sedlec Abbey, a monastery for the Cistercians order in Bohemia, is looted and burned by Hussites led by Jan Žižka, and several of the monks inside are killed.source

16th century

  • 1523April 4 – Under a plan organized by Sister Katharina von Bora and Protestant reformer Martin Luther, fish merchant Leonhard Köppe helps carry out the rescue of Von Bora and other Cistercian Catholic nuns from the Nimbschen Abbey in Germany near Grimma and Leipzig. On the day before Easter, Köppe arrives at the convent under the pretext of bringing delivering herring and other foods to the Abbey, then uses empty barrels to smuggle the nuns to Wittenberg. Von Bora will later become Luther's wife.source
  • 1554June 29 – Edward Staples, Bishop of Meath, is deprived of his office as being a married priest. The Cistercian William Walsh is appointed to succeed him on 22 November by letters patent.source

17th century

  • 1664Austere reforms introduced in the Cistercian La Trappe Abbey in Normandy by Armand de Rancé, origin of the Trappists.source

19th century

  • 1833August – Mount Melleray Abbey in the Knockmealdown Mountains is founded, the first Cistercian foundation in Ireland in modern times.source

20th century

  • 19296 January - The abbey on Caldey Island is handed over by the Benedictine order to its new owners, Belgian Cistercians.source

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