Guillaume d'Auvillars explained

Guillaume IV d'Auvillars, (died 3 January 1418) was the 26th abbot of Bec Abbey in France.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Biography

Guillaume was born in the village of Auvillars in Normandy.^[4]

He was consecrated Abbot of Bec in 1399 by Guillaume de Vienne, Archbishop of Rouen. Following the king's order, he continued and completed the fortification of the abbey.

He died on 3 January 1418 and was buried in the middle of the choir of the abbey. His funerary slab, extracted during the Revolution, is now in the Sainte-Croix de Bernay church, which keeps it against the wall of the south transept. It was restored by Pierre-Victorien Lottin.^[5]

Notes and References

1. De Charpillon,Obtenir la version papier de ce livre Dictionnaire historique de toutes les communes du département, Volume 1. p270
2. Bourget, Dom. John (1779). The History of the Royal Abbey of Bec. London:p136.
3. Clénet, Paul-Emmanuel (2008). "Dom Philibert Zobel 1921 - 2008". L'Ulivo (in French). 38 (1): 332–33.
4. Louis-Étienne Charpillon et l'abbé Caresme, Dictionnaire historique de toutes les communes du département de l'Eure, p. 269
5. https://books.google.fr/books?id=MCVDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA263&dq=abbaye+bec&hl=fr&sa=X&ei=fF-IT6DjMuGP0AXM_Ni_CQ&ved=0CFMQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=guillaume%20d'auvilliers&f=false Dictionnaire historique de toutes les communes du département de l'Eure, Volume 1