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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Durandus of
Troarn (b. about 1012, at Le Neubourg near Evreux; d. 1089, at Troarn
near Caen) was a French Benedictine and ecclesiastical writer.
Affiliated from early childhood to the Benedictine community of
Mont-Sainte-Cathérine and of Saint-Vandrille, he was made abbot of the
newly founded Saint-Martin of Troarn by William, Duke of Normandy, in
whose esteem he stood on a par with Lanfranc, Anselm, and Gerbert.