ABBON OF FLEURY or ABBO FLORIACENSIS (c. 945 1004), French scholar. He spent two years in England, and was abbot of Romsey. After his return to France he was made abbot of Fleury on the Loire (988). He was twice sent to Rome by King Robert the Pious and on each occasion succeeded in warding off a threatened papal interdict. He was killed at La Reole in 1004, in endeavouring to quell a monkish revolt. He wrote an Epitome de vitis Romanorum pontificum, besides con troversial treatises, letters, etc. (see Migne, Patrologia Latina). His life, written by his disciple Aimoin of Fleury, in which much of Abbon's correspondence was reproduced, is of great impor tance as a source for the reign of Robert II., especially with reference to the papacy (cf. Migne, op. cit. vol. cxxxix.).
See Ch. Pfister, Etudes sur le regne de Robert le Pieux (1885) : Cuissard-Gaucheron, "L'Ecole de Fleury-sur-Loire a la fin du toe siecle," in Memoires de la societe archeol. de l'Orlianais, xiv. (Orleans, 1875) ; A. Molinier, Sources cde l'histoire de France.