When Abbot Abbo of Fleury agreed to journey to Gascony to advise on the reform of the monastery of La Réole, he wouldn’t have anticipated that his journey would end in his dying. But in 1004 Abbo was the sufferer of a deadly accident when a struggle broke out between a gaggle of monks from La Réole and a few of his personal, introduced with him from Fleury. Listening to a commotion in a courtyard of the monastery, Abbo tried to separate the brawling monks – and was stabbed by a spear. He died within the arms of one in every of his monks, from whose hagiographic account we all know the small print of his premature dying.