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historian , for that period considerable , and which continuing to increase , caused his monastery to acquire tj * § name of Magnus Monasteriu . ni , then Maire Maiastler , a . n ( J finally Marmoutier . The ravages of the Normans , unrestrained b y the terrors of the Church in that freebooting age , have deprived us of thosp ancient documents which recorded the history of the abbey till after the end
of the 7 th century ; but it is known that in the beginning af the 9 th century , Louis le Debonnaire , after the example of Charlemagne , his father , took the abbey under his especial protection , and exempted it from taxes , as did Louis le Chauve in 849 . The accounts which have been handed down to us , prove that about that time the religious at Marmoutier amounted to one hundred and forty in number , for no less than one hundred and fifteen
were massacred by the barbarians of the north ; whilst the remaining twenty-five , saving themselves by concealment in the deep caverns of the hill , afterwards took refuge with the canons of St . Martins of Tours , and accompanied the shrine which enclosed the remains of their patron Saint , when it was trans-p ported . for safety into Burgundy . Thus the ruined monastery remained a long time abandoned ; but about the year 958 , in
order that the services of the Church might no longer be suspended , the chapter of St . Martin placed in it a number of regular canons . These remained till 987 , when the abbey resumed its former constitutions through the agency of St . Mayeul , and thirteen other of the religious of Cluni , after an interval of one hundred and forty-two years . The chief patrans of this restora ^ - tion appear to have been Robert , Count of Tours , and Bertha his wife , the former of whom was buried at Marmoutier . as well as his
son , Eudes the Second . Thibault , the son of the latter , when compelled to cede Touraine to Qeoffry Martel , Count of Anjou , reserved this abbey , which at that time enjoyed so high a reputation that different powerful seigneurs requested monks for the abbeys they were founding . Foulques Nerra obtained this favour in 1020 for the Abbey of St . Nicholas , at Angers ; Geoffry Martel for that of the Trinity at Venddme ; Hubert , for . that of Noyers ,
in 1030 ; and William the Conqueror , in 1066 , for Battle Abbey in England . In short , the religious of the Abbey of Marmoutier about that period were in their turn the restorers also of the Abbeys of St . Florent at Saumur , St . Julian at Tours , St . Serge and St . Aubyn at Angers , and such reputation and authority had they acquired that they were twice chosen ( in 1196 and 11204 )* ,
to be the mediators between the Crowns of France and England . St . Louis took Marmoutier under his special protection , and Charles VII ., in giving Touraine as an appanage to the Due d'Anjou , his brother , solely reserved this abbey . It is well known Marmoutier was the depository of a precious relic , which * Chalmel .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1832, page 730, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1824/page/10/
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