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The work that will be the focus of the monks’ lives, according to the Cluny foundation charter, is the work of the rule of St. Benedict. The monks were to pray, perform “works of mercy toward the poor, the needy, strangers, and pilgrims.”[footnoteRef:1] Who would benefit from it, of course, would be the monks themselves, the Church as a whole, those who would receive the attentions of the monks, as well as William and his wife (who donated the land) and their families. William notes several times that he is donating the land because he is wealthy and it is good for the wealthy to care for others and to give to the Church. He asserts that he is donating it because he wants to reap a portion of the rewards of those monks who, despising the world, are able to give their lives to the everlasting and obtain mercies and graces from God. By allowing the monks to have a place to call their own, William stands to benefit for his charity in a spiritual way, hoping that his gesture and gift allows him to obtain everlasting life for his soul and body and that of his wife’s as well as the rest of his family’s. In short all stakeholders in the land essentially stand to benefit from the donation.

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[1: “The Foundation Charter of Cluny” in Readings in Medieval History, 5th Ed. (ed. by Patrick Geary), Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016, 281.]

The abbey is to be protected from outside interference by the words of the deed, as drawn up by William. William writes explicitly that the “monks shall have power and permission to elect any one of their order whom they please as abbot and rector, following the will of God and the rule promulgated by St. Benedict,-in such wise that neither by the intervention of our own nor of any other power may they be impeded from making a purely canonical election.”[footnoteRef:2] William also goes on to add that no one is to interfere with the monks in any way whatsoever in their governance of the land—not even the Roman Pontiff himself—and that all the saints in Heaven are to watch over the monks and the abbey to ensure that they are not violated: “It has pleased us also to insert in this document that, from this day, those same monks there congregated shall….....

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