Isarn de Marseille

religious life in the surrounding monasteries that had become decadent. Saint Isarn (d. 1048), a Catalan monk and successor as abbot to Wiffred, began construction

Abbot of the Monastery of St Victor in Marseilles, which flourished under him. See: (in French) Isarn de Marseille. Wikipédia. (French Wikipedia). See:

arbitrated disputes and thus created the feudal system of Provence. With Isarn, bishop of Grenoble, he undertook the mission to repopulate the Dauphiné

royal consent, he and his descendants controlled the fisc in Provence. With Isarn, Bishop of Grenoble, he repopulated Dauphiné and settled an Italian count

Saint-Raymond in Toulouse. This early building was probably begun by bishop Isarn (1071 to 1105), and was continued by his successor Amiel (1105 to 1139)