The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Abbo of Fleury

ABBO OF FLEURY, fle-rē, French theologian: b. near Orléans about 945; d. 1004. He studied at Rheims and Paris; acquiring great repute as a scholar and scientist (of the time). Oswald, Archbishop of York, induced him to teach for two years in the abbey of Ramsey and aid in restoring the monastic system; on his return to France he became abbot of Fleury and built up a thriving school there; was sent by Robert II (son of Hugh Capet) on two missions to Rome, 986 and 996, and each time succeeded in warding off a papal interdict. Later, while trying to reform the discipline of He wrote lives of the early popes down to Gregory I. Consult Life by his pupil Aimoin, in Latin, ‘Vita Abbonis abbatis Floriancensis.’