The greatest splendor of the abbey of Fruttuaria was in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, when the abbey minted its own coin. In 1265 the abbey possessed eighty-five churches in Italy alone, as well as four comunes, the quattro terre abbaziali of San Benigno Canavese, Montanaro, Lombardore and Foglizzo. Other possessions lay in France and Austria. Some 1,200 monks inhabited the monastery. In 1710 troops of Vittorio Amedeo II, duke of Savoia, occupied the terre abbaziali, an occupation that lasted until 1741 and only ended with papal renunciation of all territorial control.