The seventeenth-century Benedictine scholar Jean Mabillon accepted the traditional founding of Fleury as by Leodebaldus, abbot of St-Aignan (Orléans) about 640, in the existing Gallo-Roman villa of Floriacum, in the Vallis Aurea, the "Golden Valley".
The seventeenth-century Benedictine scholar Jean Mabillon accepted the traditional account of Fleury's founding as being by Leodebaldus, abbot of St-Aignan (Orléans), around 640 AD, within the existing Gallo-Roman villa of Floriacum in the Vallis Aurea, known as the "Golden Valley".