VI.—The Monastery of Cluny, 910–1155
Rose Graham|A. W. Clapham
In 1075 William de Warenne, who came from Normandy to England with the Conqueror, set out his wife Gundrada on a pilgrimage Rome. Travellers north of France and Italy then usually took Roman road, Via Agrippa, which led Boulogne, through Burgundy, by Avallon, Autun Mâcon, Lyons. ‘We went many monasteries in Burgundy offer our prayers,’ wrote ‘and when we had come learnt that could not safely travel it account war between pope emperor, so turned aside monastery Cluny, great holy abbey honour St. Peter, there adored besought Peter.’
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