Guillaume de Volpiano
See also: Guillaume
Guillaume de Volpiano ( it Guglielmo da Volpiano in Italian) is a monk and reforming liturgical Piedmontese born in the years 960, probably in Volpiano, close to Turin.
After travelhaving travelled much through the Italy, in particular in Campania and Basilicate, and having remained with Venice, it remains also a long time in Burgondie where it becomes in 990 abbot of Saint-Benign of Dijon. It also remains a certain time with Cluny.
In 1001, it leaves for the duchy Normandy, with the call of the young person duke Richard Irascible the with an aim, inter alia, to make restore the abbey Fécamp, residence and place of ducal burial .
As a reformer, his action concerns more than 80 monasteries, in particular in Normandy as in Fécamp, Jumièges, or, Troarn. Then, with by-effect, that relates to thereafter the monasteries of the England anglo-sax - Danish, as with Winchcombe and Gloucester. It made these monasteries of asylums of holiness and knowledge.
It also brings with him the Lombard architecture of Italy of North.
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