 Dalon became the third daughter house of Pontigny and received protection from Henry Plantagenet, Eleanor of Aquitaine and Richard the Lionheart.The well-known troubadour and lord of Hautefort Bertran de Born withdrew as a monk into Dalon and died there in 1215.Dalon Abbey owned several granges in Périgord, as well as the Priory of Saint-Blaise in the parish of Milhac.