>Marmoutier
was a monastery in the diocese of Tours, with daughterhouses in
many
dioceses, neighboring and not so.
Stinking rich they were, too,
with land all over the place, in different dioceses. These were the lot of whom
Geoffrey of Vendome wrote: Quos B. Martini humilitas superbos, et eius paupertas
pecuniosos facit'. Nicholas of Clairvaux, in c. 1147, accuses them of
bribery and corruption, but he is not perhaps the most reliable of
witnesses.
Lena Wahlgren-Smith
