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> I'm looking for some information on the Houses of Savigny in England.
>
> Could someone point me in the direction of a source which discusses
> their short existence before being swallowed by the
> Cistercian/Cluniac order(sorry, couldn't remember which one it was)
It was the Cistercian. The history of Byland Abbey, near York, is
instructive. In 1124 Stephen, Count of Boulogne, gave the Savigniacs
lands at Tulketh near Preston in Lancashire. The monks moved to
Furness in 1128 when the original site proved unsuitable. In 1134,
Furness sent a colony of monks under an abbot, Gerold, to found a
daughter house at Calder on the west coast of Cumberland. Four years
later, however, the new monastery was attacked by Scots and destroyed.
The monks attempted to return to Furness, but as Gerold refused to give
up his rank of abbot, they were refused admittance. They decided to
seek the help of Thurstan, Archbishop of York. On the way, the monks
were advised by the steward of Gundreda de Albini to seek her help at
Thirsk. With the agreement of her son, Roger de Mowbray, she sent them
to Hood, just east of Thirsk. The abbot of Furness claimed
jurisdiction over them, but in 1142 Gerold travelled to the General
Chapter of abbots at Savigny and won freedom from Furness. In 1143 the
community moved again to Byland (now called Old Byland), which is just
across the River Rye from Rievaulx. This proved inconvenient as the
two abbeys could hear each others' bells "which was not fitting and
could by no means be endured." They moved again in 1147 to Stocking,
on "two carucates of waste land in the territory of Cukwald below the
hill of Blakhow." In the same year the abbot of Savigny met Bernard of
Clairvaux and offered up his entire order. Bernard accepted, and the
Savigniacs merged with the Cistercians. In 1177 the monks, now
Cistercians, made their final move, to the present site of Byland
Abbey, between Coxwold and Wass and not far from Ampleforth.
The Supple Doctor.
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