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Radulphe or Raoul de Beaumont, born in and dead, was a Norman Benedictine, eighth abbot of Mont Saint-Michel from 1048 to 1053.

The previous abbot of Mont Saint-Michel, Suppo, having been forced, for having led a dissolute life, where he swallowed up gifts from the Duke of Normandy Robert the Magnificent and alienated several lands, to hide himself from the anger of his brothers by taking refuge in the abbey of Frutare, the Montois religious, wishing to reconcile the protection of the Dukes, believed more prudent to give notice to this prince of the retirement of their abbot, than to occupy, by a canonical election, their abbey chair which had become vacant.

Without regard to this approach, William the Conqueror placed in it, of his authority, Radulphe, whose title to this favor was less merit than the high birth.

Having immediately taken possession of his office, Radulphe strove to erase by his virtues the unfavorable provisions which he had been able to excite in the spirit of his monks the infringement of their privileges, to which he owed his dignity. He also built the Romanesque pillars whose hangers supported the abbey bell tower.

Religious practices and artistic works could not, however, satisfy his fervour. Descending to the pious exaltation that covered the East Seas and the German roads with pilgrims, he gave into the hands of the claustral prior the riches of the abbey, to undertake the journey of Jerusalem.

In Cyprus, upon the return of this distant peregrination, death surprised him. Returned to the monastery of which he had been the abbot, his body was honored with a solemn funeral.

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Norman religious
11th century abbey
Benedictine
Abbé du Mont-Saint-Michel
Date of birth not known (Xth century)
Death in 1033