# Paul of Caen

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Paul of Caen on stained glass windows of Cathedral St-Albans.

**Paul of Caen**[1] was a [Norman](/source/Normans) [Benedictine](/source/Benedictine) monk who became fourteenth Abbot of [St Albans Abbey](/source/St_Albans_Abbey) in 1077, a position he held to 1093.[2][3] He was a nephew of Archbishop [Lanfranc](/source/Lanfranc).[4]

Stone marking the 1978 reburial of the remains of Paul of Caen and other Abbots of St Albans at [St Albans Cathedral](/source/St_Albans_Cathedral)

Paul, former monk of the [Saint-Étienne abbey](/source/Abbaye-aux-Hommes) in Caen,[5] was an energetic builder at the Abbey,[6] having materials from the ruins of Roman [Verulamium](/source/Verulamium), collected by earlier abbots Ealdred and Ealmer, to work with.[7] He also took a firm line with older reverences, disregarding some Anglo-Saxon relics and tombs,[8] and allowing the incorporation of older religious stonework into foundations, thus paradoxically ensuring their preservation for archaeology.[9] He encouraged the transcription of manuscripts.[10][11]

## Notes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Paul of St Albans, Paul de Caen.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["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.](http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/herts/vol2/pp483-488)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["11thand12thC"](http://bacchronicle.homestead.com/11thand12thC.html).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [David Knowles](/source/David_Knowles_(scholar)), *The Monastic Order in England* (2nd edition 1963), p.96.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** (in French) Célestin Hippeau, *L'Abbaye de Saint-Étienne de Caen, 1066-1790*, Caen, A. Hardel, 1855, p.28

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** [St Albans Abbey](http://www.salbani.co.uk/Med%20Web/st._albans_abbey.htm)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** [\[1\]](http://80.69.6.195/personalisation/object.cfm?uid=003KTOP00000015U049A0000)[*[permanent dead link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot)*]

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** Knowles. pp.118-9.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** ["CINOA: An Important Anglo Danish carved sandstone pillar slab, School of Bakewell"](https://web.archive.org/web/20070312214245/http://www.cinoa.org/art-and-antiques/detail/21581). Archived from [the original](http://www.cinoa.org/art-and-antiques/detail/21581) on 12 March 2007. Retrieved 12 April 2007.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** Gesta Abbatum Monasterii Sancti Albani, ed. H. T. Riley, 3 vols. (London, 1867) vol. 1, pp 51-66

1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** R. M. Thomson, Manuscripts from St Albans Abbey 1066-1235, 2 vols. (Woodbridge, 1985), vol. 1, pp 11-77

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