With the desire to seek a new form of monastic life – more closely linked to the Rule of Saint Benedict than the life offered in Cluniac monasteries – Benedictine monasticism experienced a great movement of reforms and foundations from the beginning of the 11th century. Great saints would go on to found new Orders, such as Saint Romuald of Ravenna and Saint Peter Damian (≈1007-1072) with the Order of Camaldoli, Saint Robert of Arbrissel (+1117) with the double monastery of Fontevrault, or even Saint Bruno of Cologne (+1101), who founded a hermitage around 1084 under the Rule of Saint Benedict in the Chartreuse Valley... This fervent zeal shows noble souls who, in their desire to sacrifice everything for the glory of God, sought, with varying degrees of success, to reinterpret the Rule of Saint Benedict. Cîteaux was one of these reformed monasteries, where the founders had the genius to propose a harmonious balance between traditional and modern ideas.