{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} [[File:Vitrail Paul de Caen cathédrale Saint-Alban.jpg|thumb|right|Paul of Caen on stained glass windows of Cathedral St-Albans.]] '''Paul of Caen'''<ref>Paul of St Albans, Paul de Caen.</ref> was a [[Normans|Norman]] [[Benedictine]] monk who became fourteenth Abbot of [[St Albans Abbey]] in 1077, a position he held to 1093.<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/herts/vol2/pp483-488 "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.]</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://bacchronicle.homestead.com/11thand12thC.html|title = 11thand12thC}}</ref> He was a nephew of Archbishop [[Lanfranc]].<ref>[[David Knowles (scholar)|David Knowles]], ''The Monastic Order in England'' (2nd edition 1963), p.96.</ref> [[File:Stone making the 1978 reburial of Medieval monks at St Albans Cathedral, December 2021.jpg|thumb|right|Stone marking the 1978 reburial of the remains of Paul of Caen and other Abbots of St Albans at [[St Albans Cathedral]]]] Paul, former monk of the [[Abbaye-aux-Hommes|Saint-Étienne abbey]] in Caen,<ref>{{in lang|fr}} Célestin Hippeau, ''L'Abbaye de Saint-Étienne de Caen, 1066-1790'', Caen, A. Hardel, 1855, p.28</ref> was an energetic builder at the Abbey,<ref>[http://www.salbani.co.uk/Med%20Web/st._albans_abbey.htm St Albans Abbey]</ref> having materials from the ruins of Roman [[Verulamium]], collected by earlier abbots Ealdred and Ealmer, to work with.<ref>[http://80.69.6.195/personalisation/object.cfm?uid=003KTOP00000015U049A0000]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He also took a firm line with older reverences, disregarding some Anglo-Saxon relics and tombs,<ref>Knowles. pp.118-9.</ref> and allowing the incorporation of older religious stonework into foundations, thus paradoxically ensuring their preservation for archaeology.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cinoa.org/art-and-antiques/detail/21581 |title=CINOA: An Important Anglo Danish carved sandstone pillar slab, School of Bakewell<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2007-04-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070312214245/http://www.cinoa.org/art-and-antiques/detail/21581 |archive-date=2007-03-12 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He encouraged the transcription of manuscripts.<ref>Gesta Abbatum Monasterii Sancti Albani, ed. H. T. Riley, 3 vols. (London, 1867) vol. 1, pp 51-66</ref><ref>R. M. Thomson, Manuscripts from St Albans Abbey 1066-1235, 2 vols. (Woodbridge, 1985), vol. 1, pp 11-77</ref>
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