Frankreich 21700 Saint-Nicolas-lès-Cîteaux Abé de Cîteaux 1098, Robert of Molesme, Duke Odo I of Burgundy and twenty monks found the monastery. They return to the strict Benedictine rule ora, labora et studia.
1109-33, Stephan Harding founds the Cistercian order here with his Carta Caritatis.