Paul of Caen
Paul of Caen[1] was a Norman Benedictine monk who became fourteenth Abbot of St Albans Abbey in 1077, a position he held to 1093.[2] He was a nephew of Archbishop Lanfranc.[3]
Paul, former monk of the Saint-Étienne abbey in Caen,[4] was an energetic builder at the Abbey,[5] having materials from the ruins of Roman Verulamium, collected by earlier abbots Ealdred and Ealmer, to work with.[6] He also took a firm line with older reverences, disregarding some Anglo-Saxon relics and tombs,[7] and allowing the incorporation of older religious stonework into foundations, thus paradoxically ensuring their preservation for archaeology.[8] He encouraged the transcription of manuscripts.[9]
Notes
- ^ Paul of St Albans, Paul de Caen.
- ^ [1], [2].
- ^ David Knowles, The Monastic Order in England (2nd edition 1963), p.96.
- ^ Template:Fr Célestin Hippeau, L'Abbaye de Saint-Étienne de Caen, 1066-1790, Caen, A. Hardel, 1855, p.28
- ^ St Albans Abbey
- ^ [3]
- ^ Knowles. pp.118-9.
- ^ CINOA: An Important Anglo Danish carved sandstone pillar slab , School of Bakewell
- ^ [4], PDF p.36.