Todi

Title

Todi

Also Known As

Sanctus Leucius Tudertinus

Dates

Founded ca. 1040; Premonstratensian from 1133; suppressed 1236

Dedication

Leucius

Affiliation

Sainte-Marie au Bois

Medieval Diocese

Todi

Circary

Rome

History

Originally founded as a Benedictine community around 1040, Todi became a Premonstratensian house in 1133. Todi was suppressed in 1236 on the orders of the Holy See. In 1373, the abbey was demolished on the orders of Gregory XI to make way for a fortress with which to control the city.

Today the site is a city park, the Parco della Rocca.

Heads of Community

Abbots

Rusticus, fl. 1145
Laurentius, 1171-1177
Clarius, 1202-1212
Tudinus, 1221-1222
Henricus, 1236-1243

Status

Abbey

Bibliography

Backmund, Norbert. “Ein Inventar der Abtei St. Leucius in Todi 1236.” Analecta Praemonstratensia 45, no. 1–2 (1969): 84–89.

Saiani, Gaia Sofia. Instrumenta tudertina : le più antiche carte dell’abbazia di S. Leucio e del monastero di Montesanto di Todi. Uomini e mondi medievali 82. Spoleto: Fondazione Centro italiano di studi sull’alto Medioevo, 2024.

Todini, Maurizio. “Elementi urbanistici negli inventari dell’Abbazia di S. Leucio in Todi.” Colligite fragmenta. Bollettino storico della diocesi di Orvieto-Todi 1 (2009): 1–7.

Image Credit

Location of modern Parco della Rocca, Todi. Detail from Willem Blaeu, "Tuder vulgo Todi", ca. 1640.

Files

Collection

Rome

Citation

“Todi,” A Premonstratensian Atlas, accessed October 16, 2026, https://yvonneseale.org/atlas/items/show/662.

Geolocation

Item Relations

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