Independent and powerful. The abbey, placed directly under the protection of Rome, was founded by William the Pious in 910. Its abbot acted as a mediator between the Pope and the political powers that be. Cluny was the mother-house with 1,400 daughter-houses. It was sold as a national asset in 1798, and the abbey was torn down and its church all but destroyed.
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