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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Eustace
Three years after his appointment (613), when Clothaire II became ruler of the triple Kingdom of France, the abbot of Luxeuil was commissioned, by royal authority, to proceed to Bobbio for the purpose of recalling Columbanus.
During the twelve years that followed, under the administration of the abbot Eustace, the monastery continued to acquire renown as a seat of learning and sanctity.
Eustace and his monks devoted themselves to preaching in remote districts, not yet evangelized, chiefly in the north-eastern extremities of Gaul.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/05626a.htm   (309 words)

  
 Europe's 13th-Century Progress by Sanderson Beck
After the capable chancellor and archbishop of Canterbury, Hubert Walter, died in 1205, John tried to get the monks of Canterbury to accept Bishop John de Gray of Norwich; but they elected the scholar Stephen Langton, and he was consecrated by Pope Innocent III at Viterbo in 1207.
His wife Blanche of Castile raised some forces in France; but they and the fierce Eustace the Monk were defeated in a sea battle off Sandwich.
Eustace was beheaded, and the booty was used to build the hospital of St. Bartholomew to commemorate the victory.
www.san.beck.org /AB21-Europe13thCentury.html   (23696 words)

  
 MATTHIAE, AUGUST HEINRICH - LoveToKnow Article on MATTHIAE, AUGUST HEINRICH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Matthew Paris also wrote a life of Edmund Rich (q.v.), which is probably the work printed in W. Wallace's St Edmund of Canterbury (London, !893) pp.
543-588, though this is attributed by the editor to the monk Eustace; Vitae abbatum S Albani (up to 1225) which have been edited by W. Watts (1640, andc.); and (possibly) the Abbreviatio chronicorum (1000-1255), edited by F. Madden, in the third volume of the Historia Anglorum.
On the value of Matthew as an historian see F. Liebermann in G. Pertz's Scriptores xxviii.
16.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MA/MATTHIAE_AUGUST_HEINRICH.htm   (1452 words)

  
 Timeline 1200 to 1299
1217 Aug 24, Eustace "the Monk", French buccaneer, was killed in battle.
After nine years Emperor Frederic II temporarily disbanded the monks at Cassino and Thomas went to Naples to study and joined the Dominicans.
1297 Jan 7, Francois Grimaldi (Francois the Crafty) disguised himself as a monk and appeared at the fortress on the Rock of Monaco.
www.timelines.ws /1200_1299.HTML   (10351 words)

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