Paul of Caen

Paul of Caen[1] was a Norman Benedictine monk who became fourteenth Abbot of St Albans Abbey in 1077, a position he held to 1093.[2][3] He was a nephew of Archbishop Lanfranc.[4]

Stone marking the 1978 reburial of the remains of Paul of Caen and other Abbots of St Albans at St Albans Cathedral

Paul of Caen on stained glass windows of Cathedral St-Albans.

Paul, former monk of the Saint-Étienne abbey in Caen,[5] was an energetic builder at the Abbey,[6] having materials from the ruins of Roman Verulamium, collected by earlier abbots Ealdred and Ealmer, to work with.[7] He also took a firm line with older reverences, disregarding some Anglo-Saxon relics and tombs,[8] and allowing the incorporation of older religious stonework into foundations, thus paradoxically ensuring their preservation for archaeology.[9] He encouraged the transcription of manuscripts.[10][11]

Notes
  1. Paul of St Albans, Paul de Caen.
  2. "St Albans abbey: History." A History of the County of Hertford: Vol. 2. (William Page, ed.) London: Victoria County History, 1908. 483-488. British History Online. Web. 10 June 2018.
  3. "11thand12thC".
  4. David Knowles, The Monastic Order in England (2nd edition 1963), p.96.
  5. (in French) Célestin Hippeau, L'Abbaye de Saint-Étienne de Caen, 1066-1790, Caen, A. Hardel, 1855, p.28
  6. St Albans Abbey
  8. Knowles. pp.118-9.
  9. "CINOA: An Important Anglo Danish carved sandstone pillar slab , School of Bakewell". Archived from the original on 12 March 2007. Retrieved 12 April 2007.
  10. Gesta Abbatum Monasterii Sancti Albani, ed. H. T. Riley, 3 vols. (London, 1867) vol. 1, pp 51-66
  11. R. M. Thomson, Manuscripts from St Albans Abbey 1066-1235, 2 vols. (Woodbridge, 1985), vol. 1, pp 11-77
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