There is disagreement between scholars as to how long the Benedictines had a monastery at Lund. There was a monastic house in Lund perhaps as early as 1072 founded by Ricwald, Bishop of Lund (1072-1089) during the reign of King Swein Estridsen who imported German monks from Brauweiler Abbey near Cologne. Bishop Ricwalf is named as the founder of the abbey church sometime after 1072 in the 'Lund Necrologium'. It may be that the church was constructed on one of the properties given to Lund diocese by King Canute II in the first year of his reign. The small community of mostly German Benedictine monks at Lund apparently flourished because Abbot Hartwig from St. Pantaleon's Abbey in Cologne, Germany was named as the first abbot of the Benedictine house at Lund in 1123.