Dom Pérignon (monk) Dom Pérignon (monk) Dom Pierre Pérignon, O.S.B., (December 163814 September 1715) was a French Benedictine monk who made important contributions to the production and quality of champagne wine in an era when the region's wines were predominantly still red. Popular myths frequently, but erroneously, credit him with the invention of sparkling champagne, which didn't become the dominant style of Champagne until the mid-19th century. The famous champagne Dom Pérignon, the prestige cuvée of Moët & Chandon, is named for him. The remains of the monastery where he spent his adult life is now the property of that winery. Pérignon was
Theodoric the Monk to enumerate" which followed the death of King Sigurðr. Theodoric's work is one of the Norwegian synoptics, the oldest preserved kings' sagas. The others include "Historia Norwegie" and "Ágrip af Nóregskonungasögum". Theodoric relied heavily on Icelandic sources, possibly including the "Oldest Saga of St. Olaf" and Oddr Snorrason's "Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar". 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