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| 1084 |
| | | St Bruno and six companions retire to Chartreuse, in the French Alps, and establish the Carthusian order | |
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| 1096 |
| | | Peter the Hermit, an old monk on a donkey, leads the largest of the popular groups from Germany on the first crusade | |
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| c. 1098 |
| | | Benedictine monks, wishing to return to the early ideals of the order, form a community at Cîteaux which becomes the Cistercian order | |
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| 1115 |
| | | St Bernard establishes a new monastery at Clairvaux, from which he presides over the rapid expansion of the Cistercian order | |
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| 1210 |
| | | St Francis and eleven companions tell Innocent III of their wish for a life of holy poverty in the bustle of the towns | |
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| 1215 |
| | | St Dominic and his companions tell Innocent III of their wish to teach and preach in the bustle of the towns | |
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| 1216 |
| | | The Dominicans are formally established by Pope Honorius III as Ordo Fratrum Praedicatorum, the Order of the Friars Preachers | |
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| 1219 |
| | | St Francis of Assisi joins a crusading army in Egypt and attempts to convert the sultan Melek-el-Kamel and his followers to Christianity | |
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| 1223 |
| | | The Franciscans are formally established by Honorius III as Ordo Fratrum Minorum, the Order of the Friars Minor | |
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| 1233 |
| | | Gregory IX sends Dominican friars to root out the remains of the Catharist heresy in France, thus launching the Inquisition | |
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