French abbots

Duke of Romagna and former Catholic cardinal

French novelist (1697–1763)

Suger (; ; ; 1081 – 13 January 1151) was a French abbot and statesman. He was a key advisor to King Louis VI and his son Louis VII, acting as the latter's regent during the Second Crusade. His writings are seminal texts for early 12th-century Capetian history, and his reconstruction of the Basilica of Saint-Denis, where he was abbot, was instrumental in creating the Gothic architecture style.

benedictine monk, second abbott of Cluny

Benedictine historian, theologian and author of autobiographies (c. 1055–1124)

Cistercian abbot (1024–1111)

French clergyman and physicist (1700-1770)

French archbishop

Benedictine Abbot of Cluny (c.962–1049)

monk and abbot of Fleury Abbey (c.945-1004)

French abbot and saint

French Benedictine abbot (1806–1875)

Abbot of Cluny (1024-1109)

Benedictine monk (c.805–c.862)

French abbot

Italian monastic reformer and architect

Founder of the Trappist Order

French abbot

Brioc (Breton: Brieg; ; ; ; died late sixth century) was a 6th-century Welsh holy man who became the first abbot of Saint-Brieuc in Brittany. He is one of the seven founder saints of Brittany.

French aristocrat (1517–1571)

Catholic cardinal (1629-1704)

French cardinal

French diplomat (1666-1718)

Catholic cardinal

historian and participant of the Second Crusade

Abbot, hermit, monk

Abbot of Cluny

theologian, abbot of St Denis, bishop and archbishop

French bishop (1482-1532)

Abbot of Luxeuil

French abbot (1927–2008)

Bertin (; 615 – c. 709 AD), also known as Saint Bertin the Great, was the Frankish abbot of a monastery in Saint-Omer later named the Abbey of Saint Bertin after him. He is venerated as a saint by the Catholic and Orthodox Churches. The fame of Bertin's learning and sanctity was so great that in a short time more than 150 monks lived under his rule. Among them were St. Winnoc and his three companions who had come from Brittany to join Bertin's community and assist in the conversions. Nearly the whole Morini region was Christianized.

French abbot and saint

Winwaloe (; ; or ; – 3 March 532) was the founder and first abbot of Landévennec Abbey (literally "Lann of Venec"), also known as the Monastery of Winwaloe. It was just south of Brest in Brittany, now part of France.

French abbot and bishop

Abbot of Bec; Archbishop of Canterbury

Illegitimate son of Louis XIV of France

Frankish Benedictine abbot and saint

Abbot of Cluny

Winnoc (c. 640-c. 716/717) was an abbot or prior of Wormhout. Three lives of the saint are extant (BHL 8952-4). The best of them is the first life, which was written by a monk of Bertin in the mid-9th century or perhaps a century earlier.

Archbishop of Canterbury

Catholic cardinal (1636-1706)

12th-century French chronicler

French writer and abbot (1615-1654)

Catholic cardinal

French abbot

Catholic cardinal

French politician (1757-1832)

abbot of Saint-Denis (9th c.)

French dramatist and writer (1708-1775)

French abbot and saint

French Benedictine and bishop

French Roman Catholic saint

French Cistercian abbot

French translator and churchman (1600–1681)

abbot of Abbey of Fontenelle and Bishop of Lyon

bishop of Toul

abbot and saint

Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem

French martyr