Mont-Saint-Michel is a tidal island and mainland commune in Normandy, France.
Flavigny-sur-Ozerain is a commune in the French department of Côte-d'Or, in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
The Antiphonary tonary missal of St. Benigne was written in the last years of the 10th century, when the Abbot William of Volpiano at St. Benignus of Dijon reformed the liturgy of several monasteries in Burgundy. The chant manuscript records mainly Western plainchant of the Roman-Frankish proper Mass and part of the chant sung during the matins, but unlike the common form of the Gradual and of the Antiphonary, William organized his manuscript according to the chant genre, and these sections were subdivided into eight parts according to the octoechos. This disposition followed the order of a tonary, but William of Volpiano wrote not only the incipits of the classified chant, he wrote the complete chant text with the music in central French neumes which were still written in campo aperto, and added a second alphabetic notation of his own invention for the melodic structure of the codified chant.
Saint Aubert, also known as Saint Autbert, was bishop of Avranches in the 8th century and is credited with founding Mont Saint-Michel.
Robert of Torigni was a Norman monk, prior, abbot and twelfth-century chronicler.
Saint William of Volpiano was a Northern Italian monastic reformer, composer, and founding abbot of numerous abbeys in Burgundy, Italy and Normandy.
Bertram de Verdun was the name of several members of the Norman family of de Verdun, native to the Avranchin.
Les Préaux is a commune in the Eure department and Normandy region of France.
Le Val-Saint-Père is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in northwestern France.
Redon Abbey, or Abbey of Saint-Sauveur, Redon, in Redon in the present Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, France, is a former Benedictine abbey founded in 832 by Saint Conwoïon, at the point where the Oust flows into the Vilaine, on the border between Neustria and Brittany.
Moissac Abbey was a Benedictine and Cluniac monastery in Moissac, Tarn-et-Garonne in south-western France. A number of its medieval buildings survive including the abbey church, which has a famous and important Romanesque sculpture around the entrance.
The Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey is an abbey located within the city and island of Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy, in the department of Manche.
The Abbey of Honau was a monastic foundation in Northern Alsace which flourished from the 8th century until 1290, when it succumbed to the flood-waters of the Rhine.
Saint-Mihiel Abbey is an ancient Benedictine abbey situated in the town of Saint-Mihiel, near Verdun in the Meuse department in Lorraine in north-eastern France.
William fitzWimund was a Norman landholder in England after the Norman Conquest.
The Prieuré de l'Oiselière is a priory located at Saint-Planchers, near Granville, in France. Nestled in a valley bordering the watercourse that bears its name, surrounded by fortified walls and moats, its history dates back to the 12th century. It was a dependency of the abbots of Mont-Saint-Michel who organised the cultivation of the fields and the woods and collected taxes. It was also a local justice court.
Préaux Abbey was a Benedictine monastery dedicated to Saint Peter at Les Préaux, in Normandy, France.
Norgod was bishop of Avranches from 990 to 1017-c.1022. Almost nothing is known about him, and his first appearance as bishop dates from the foundation of Fécamp, on 15 June 990. After that, he appears c. 1015 witnessing two charters with donations to Mont Saint-Michel, by Robert, Count of Mortain, and Gunnor, wife or Richard I. Finally, in 1017, he witnessed a charter by William of Volpiano concerning the privileges of the monks of Fruttuaria. He removed himself to Mont Saint-Michel soon after, where he finished his days as a monk. He died either on 14 October, either on 1026 or 1036.
