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Bec Abbey

c. 1034 · 11th century

Bec Abbey, at Le Bec-Hellouin in Normandy, is a Benedictine monastery founded around 1034 by the knight Herluin. Under the teachers Lanfranc and Anselm, both later archbishops of Canterbury, its school became one of the leading centres of learning in 11th-century Europe. After the Norman Conquest it held estates in England and supplied many English abbots and bishops.

Bec Abbey
Image: drawing by M.J. Ratel after a seal by an anonymous artist · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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Duchy of Normandy

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Bec Abbey. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/bec-abbey
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