Clunisian sites

The tenth century marked the beginning of the great European Renaissance with a new economic and spiritual booming.

However, we can wonder why the Berry was one of the first conquest of the Clunisien’s reform. It was thanks to the friendships between two men, Guillaume le Pieux, Duke of Aquitaine and Ebbe le Noble, Lord of Deols.

Guillaume founded a monastery in his own land in Cluny in 917. He entrusted the direction to Bernon.

In 917, Ebbe did the same and entrusted the direction of the monastery of Deols to Cluny, naturally, to perfect the work of the Duke of Aquitaine, his suzerain and friend.

On December 10th 917, Ebbe le Noble and his wife Hildegarde subscribed to a foundation act of Deols's Abbey in Bourges, written by Guillaume like the one of Cluny. The second Abbot of Cluny, Odon, was also the one of Deols and Massay .

The Benedictine's rule required that the Abbot was elected in each Abbey, otherwise it became a priory. Afterwards, Deols had its own Abbot but stayed close to Cluny through its structures which made it depending directly on the Pope, by its architecture and destiny.

About the same organization as Cluny allowed juridical and spiritual links, starting from the full property to the simple adoption of Clunisien's customs or to the election of a reforming Abbot.

Naturally, Deols is part of the federation of Clunisien's place's  network and is now situated on the main routes of place of the Clunisien’s Council of Europe.