| The King's tremendous support of the abbey of Cluny is discussed thoroughly, as is his foundation and endowment of the Cluniac abbey at Reading. |
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| The Council passed reforming decrees in keeping with the Cluniac reform movement, including ones concerning simony and clerical marriage. |
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| With these and other men, all deeply influenced by the Cluniac movement, Leo set about trying to reform the Church. |
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| Yet others founded Cluniac priories, the first English community being established at Lewes by William de Warenne. |
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| After living a dissolute, ungodly life, the priest, who was nearing death, came to seek solace at a Cluniac priory. |
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| As such, the priory came to represent the Benedictine ideals espoused by the Cluniac reforms as smaller, lesser houses of Benedictines of Cluny. |
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| He also discusses the usually polemical motivations of patrons, such as Ketton's, the Cluniac Peter the Venerable. |
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| He donated money to the abbey at Cluny itself, and after 1120 gave generously to Reading Abbey, a Cluniac establishment. |
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| In 1082 a Cluniac abbey was founded at Bermondsey by Alwine, a wealthy English citizen of London. |
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| He supported the Cluniac order and played a major role in the selection of the senior clergy in England and Normandy. |
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| He was a keen supporter of the Cluniac order, probably for intellectual reasons. |
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| By the early 11th century, the abbey was the hub of a huge Cluniac federation of monasteries that were all ultimately under the authority of the abbot of Cluny. |
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