"Immediately Fulbert, believing that
H=E9lo=EFse's husband, who had helped her run
away, wanted to be rid of her, plotted
revenge. He and some others broke into
Abelard's chamber by night, and castrated
him. The priesthood and ecclesiastical
office were, thereby, canonically closed
to him. H=E9lo=EFse, still only in her
twenties, agreed to become a nun at the
bidding of Abelard, who would never be
able to function as a husband again."
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