Numerous miracles were reported at his grave, and in 1218 Archbishop Anders Sunesen of Lund requested that Pope Honorius III appoint a local commission to investigate the claims for William's sanctity.
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In 1161 Absalon, bishop of Roskilde (and later archbishop of Lund) in Denmark, sent to Paris the provost of his cathedral (almost surely the Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus) to obtain canons regular for the reform of the canonry of St. Thomas at Eskilsø.
William of Paris, an alternative name of William of Æbelholt (c. 1127 – 1203), French-born churchman of Denmark
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The monks became "unruly" and Bishop Absalon of Roskilde, determined to obtain a new Augustinian superior, sent for his friend, William, abbot of the abbey of Sainte-Geneviève in Paris.