Cistercian Expansion in Europe

Name: Cistercian Expansion in Europe
Start: 1200
End: 1210

Type Event Region Europe Time 1200–1210

Around 1205 CE, the Cistercian monastery network entered rapid expansion across continental Europe, with new monasteries in France, England, Iberia, …

Timeline

1205Cîteaux · BurgundyThe Cistercian mother house coordinated the construction of branch houses; by around 1205, the number of monasteries in Europe exceeded five hundred, forming a monastic network covering Western Europe.
1205–1210Central Europe and Iberia · Iberian PeninsulaMonks cleared wastelands and drained swamps in Germany, Poland, and the Iberian frontier, while spreading the Christian faith and agricultural techniques, promoting settlement of frontier regions.

Sources

The Cistercians in the Middle Ages — Janet Burton (2010)
The Monastic Order in England: A History of its Development from the Times of St. Dunstan to the Fourth Lateran Council, 940–1216 — David Knowles (1963)