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Cistercians
The Cistercians are a Catholic monastic order founded at Cîteaux in Burgundy in 1098 to follow the Rule of Saint Benedict more strictly. Under Bernard of Clairvaux the order spread across Europe, building remote abbeys and developing large farming estates worked by lay brothers. In Wales the princes of Gwynedd and Deheubarth favoured them, and abbeys such as Aberconwy and Strata Florida kept chronicles of Welsh history.
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