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Order of Saint Benedict

55 dated entries naming Order of Saint Benedict, drawn from 55 separate years between 360 CE and 1795 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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4th century

  • 360At about this date, Ligugé Abbey in France is founded for the monastic Order of Saint Benedict by Martin of Tours, under dispensation from Bishop Hilary of Poitiers.source

6th century

  • 529The Benedictine Order is established at Monte Cassino near Naples by Benedict of Nursia, who founds a monastery and formulates for his monks strict rules in the "Regula Benedicti".source
  • 555Basolus, French Benedictine and hermit (approximate date)source
  • 581The Lombards under Zotto, Duke of Benevento, sack the abbey of Monte Cassino near Naples. The Benedictine monks who survive flee to Rome, but they return to the site, and rebuild the monastery.source
  • 595June – Pope Gregory I the Great sends a group of Benedictine monks under Augustine of Canterbury on a mission to Britain, to Christianize King Æthelberht, and convert the Kingdom of Kent from native Anglo-Saxon paganism. He carries letters of commendation to bishops, and is accompanied by Frankish interpreters.source
  • 597Gregorian Mission: Augustine of Canterbury lands with a group of missionaries on the Isle of Thanet (South East England). He is welcomed by King Æthelberht of Kent, who accepts baptism (along with the rest of his court) at the behest of his Christian Frankish wife, Bertha. Æthelbert assigns Augustine and his 40 monks a residence at Canterbury, where they found a Benedictine monastery that will make the town a centre of Christianity (or 596).source

7th century

  • 620Weltenburg Abbey in Bavaria (Germany) is founded by Benedictine monks.source
  • 627Amatus, Benedictine abbot and hermitsource
  • 630Eanswith, daughter of King Eadbald of Kent, founds the Benedictine Folkestone Priory, the first nunnery in England.source
  • 666Earconwald, Anglo-Saxon abbot, establishes the Benedictine abbeys, Chertsey Abbey (Surrey) for men and Barking Abbey (now in east London) for women.source
  • 680King Merewalh of Magonsæte founds the monastery of Wenlock Priory in Shropshire, England, appointing his daughter Milburga as Benedictine abbess.source
  • 684Aldegund, Frankish Benedictine abbesssource
  • 686Plague kills almost all of the Benedictine monks in the monastery of Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey (Northumbria), aside from the abbot Ceolfrith and one small boy – future scholar Bede.source
  • 690Willibrord, Anglo-Saxon missionary, travels from York with 12 Benedictine monks to Westkapelle, (modern Netherlands) to Christianize the pagan Frisians.source
  • 695Willibrord establishes a Benedictine training centre for priests and young noblemen. This seminary later becomes Utrecht University.source

8th century

  • 714Civil War within the Pepinid clan: A revolt erupts between the Neustrian Franks and Frisians. King Radbod forces bishop Willibrord and his Benedictine monks to flee, and advances as far as Cologne (Germany). Frisia (modern-day Netherlands) once again becomes independent.source
  • 730Autpert Ambrose, Frankish Benedictine monk (d. 784)source
  • 762Schäftlarn Abbey (Bavaria) is founded by Waltrich, a Benedictine monk of noble family, south of modern-day Munich, Germany.source
  • 795Paul the Deacon, a Benedictine monk at Monte Cassino, completes the History of the Lombards (approximate date).source

9th century

  • 801Rabanus Maurus, Frankish Benedictine monk, takes his vows in the monastery of Fulda and receives ordination as a deacon.source
  • 810Bertharius, Benedictine abbot and poet (approximate date)source
  • 812Candidus of Fulda, Benedictine scholarsource
  • 813Wandelbert, Benedictine monk (approximate date)source
  • 820Grimbald, Frankish Benedictine monk (d. 901)source
  • 822Rabanus Maurus, a Frankish Benedictine monk, becomes abbot of Fulda, after the death of Eigil.source
  • 840Berengaudus, Benedictine monk (d. 892)source
  • 841Summer – Vikings sail up the River Seine and devastate the city of Rouen in Normandy. They burn the Benedictine monastery of Jumièges Abbey; 68 captives are taken, and returned on payment of a ransom, by the monks of St. Denis.source
  • 847April 21 – Rabanus Maurus, a Frankish Benedictine monk, becomes archbishop of Mainz after the death of Odgar.source
  • 879Wilfred the Hairy, count of Barcelona, founds the Benedictine monastery at Ripoll, in Catalonia (Spain).source
  • 883Bertharius, Benedictine abbot and poetsource
  • 892Berengaudus, Frankish Benedictine monk (b. 840)source

10th century

  • 901July 8 – Grimbald, Frankish Benedictine monk (b. 820)source
  • 910William I (the Pious) of Aquitaine, donates land in Burgundy for the building of a Benedictine monastery dedicated to the saints Peter and Paul. Hence the Abbey of Cluny, becomes the largest in the West. In the foundation charter, William renounces all rights to the monastery and nominates Berno as the first abbot of Cluny (Eastern France). He places the monastery directly under the control of the Papal See.source
  • 934Einsiedeln Abbey, a Benedictine monastery, is founded (modern Switzerland).source
  • 945Dunstan becomes abbot of Glastonbury Abbey in England. He re-creates monastic life by establishing Benedictine monasticism in the monastery.source
  • 950Notker III, German Benedictine monk (d. 1022)source
  • 954Seborga (modern-day Liguria) comes under the jurisdiction of the Benedictine monks of Santo Onorato of Lérins.source
  • 960Dunstan receives the pallium as archbishop of Canterbury from Pope John XII. He reforms monasteries and enforces the rule of Saint Benedict: poverty, chastity and obedience for monks.source
  • 966Re-foundation of Peterborough (also called Medeshamstede) Abbey in England as a Benedictine monastery by Bishop Æthelwold of Winchester (approximate date).source
  • 978Pietro I Orseolo, doge of Venice, escapes from Venice and travels to the Benedictine abbey of Michel-de-Cuxa (Southern France). He is succeeded by Vitale Candiano (not the bishop of Grado) as doge of Venice.source
  • 980Notker (or Notger), Frankish Benedictine monk and bishop, founds the Prince-Bishopric of Liège (modern Belgium) which will remain an independent state inside the Holy Roman Empire for more than 800 years.source
  • 990Adamo Abate, Italian Benedictine abbot (approximate date)source
  • 998Bishop Wulfsige III establishes a Benedictine abbey at Sherborne (Dorsetshire).source

11th century

  • 1003Count Oliba (Taillefer) Ripoll. Oliba takes up the Benedictine habit at the Monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll.source
  • 1016Simeon of Mantua, Armenian Benedictine monksource
  • 1018Buckfast Abbey (located near Buckfastleigh) is founded as a Benedictine monastery in England.source
  • 1022March 30 – Atenulf, Italian nobleman and Benedictine abbotsource
  • 1024Alpert of Metz, French Benedictine chroniclersource
  • 1026Lidanus, Lombard Benedictine abbot (d. 1118)source
  • 1040Ernulf, French Benedictine monk and bishop (d. 1124)source
  • 1058Egbert of Fulda, German Benedictine abbotsource
  • 1060Anselm enters the Benedictine Bec Abbey in Normandy, as a novice (approximate date).source

13th century

  • 1210The church of St Helen's Bishopsgate in the City of London is founded, as a priory of Benedictine nuns.source

17th century

  • 1616Ambrose Barlow, recently graduated from the College of Saint Gregory, Douai, France, and the Royal College of Saint Alban in Valladolid, Spain, enters the Order of Saint Benedict. In 1641 he will be martyred in England.source

18th century

  • 1795March – English Benedictine monks expelled from Douai are permitted to proceed to England.source

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