6);PREUVES, COL. 703). SEE B.-A. POCQUET DU HAUT-JUSSEÂ,LES PAPES...

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1185/6);

Preuves, col. 703). See B.-A. Pocquet du Haut-JusseÂ,

Les papes et les ducs de Bretagne,

i,

Paris, 1928, pp. 22±3.

88

Abbot William is mentioned in an undated notice recording a transaction involving Duke

Geoffrey and Albert, bishop of Saint-Malo (1181 x 1184) (`Cart. St-Melaine', f. 186, published

Actes ineÂdits, no.

lviii).

Gervase was chosen, as nothing is known of him before this, but DukeGeoffrey's object might have been to assert the independence of theRennais monastery from the Angevin Saint-Florent.Some monks left Saint-Melaine in protest and went to Saint-Florent,whence they appealed to the papal curia. In a bull issued in November