Dom Pérignon (monk) at the Abbey of Hautvillers, Dom Groussard, who in 1821 gave an account of Dom Pérignon "inventing" Champagne among other exaggerated tales about the Abbey in order to garner historical importance and prestige for the church. Groussard’s myth achieved more than prestige for the church, it helped commercialize champagne at the turn of the twentieth century. The Syndicat du commerce used the myth to promote champagne and the Champagne region, producing a pamphlet called "Le Vin de Champagne" in 1896 that celebrated Perignon as the inventor of champagne by following "ancient traditions." The myth served to protect champagne made in
Theodoric the Monk Theodoric the Monk Theodoric the Monk (; also "Tjodrik munk"; in Old Norse his name was most likely "Þórir") was a 12th-century Norwegian Benedictine monk, perhaps at the Nidarholm Abbey. He may be identical with either Bishop Tore of the Diocese of Hamar or Archbishop Tore Gudmundsson, of the Archdiocese of Nidaros who both went under the Latin name "Theodoricus" in the Abbey of St. Victor, Paris. Theodoric wrote a brief history of the kings of Norway in Latin, "Historia de Antiquitate Regum Norwagiensium" sometime between 1177 and 1188. The work covers Norwegian history from the reign of the 9th