Ripon as the Liberty of Ripon and it was during this time that a grand Collegiate Church was built on top of the ruins of Wilfrid's building. Eventually developed in the Gothic style, the project owed much to the work of Roger de Pont L'Evêque and Walter de Gray, two Archbishops of York during the Plantagenet era. During the 12th century Ripon built up a booming wool trade, attracting Italian trade merchants, especially Florentines, who bought and exported large quantities. Ripon's proximity to Fountains Abbey, where the Cistercians had a long tradition of sheep farming and owned much grazing land, was
Solières Abbey Solières Abbey Solières Abbey () is a former Cistercian nunnery located at Ben-Ahin, a sub-municipality of Huy, in the province of Liège, Belgium. The abbey was founded in the late 12th century as an Augustinian community, which affiliated itself to the Cistercians in 1229. It is said the abbey was founded in 1100AD by Peter the Hermit, on his return from the first crusade. The abbey was dissolved in 1795 during the French Revolution and sold off as a national asset in 1797. The church and most of the conventual buildings were demolished but the purchaser of the abbess's residence,