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3 days ago · Abingdon Abbey may well have been founded in the late seventh century AD, ensuring the town’s prominence for the next 800 years and more. Abingdon’s medieval market was established in the time...
4 days ago · HOUSES OF BENEDICTINE MONKS 1. THE ABBEY OF ABINGDON. Wonderful, but quite baseless, legends were once current with regard to the very early history of the abbey of Abingdon, as to its being founded by King Lucius and destroyed by the Emperor Diocletian; as to the Emperor Constantine receiving here his education as a youth; or as to the five hundred monks who lived by the labours of their ...
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1 day ago · Empress Matilda (c. 7 February 1102 – 10 September 1167), also known as Empress Maud, was one of the claimants to the English throne during the civil war known as the Anarchy. The daughter and heir of Henry I, king of England and ruler of Normandy , she went to Germany as a child when she was married to the future Holy Roman Emperor Henry V .
4 days ago · It is known as Wytham Abbey, and was for centuries the residence of the Lords Norreys and the Earls of Abingdon. It adjoins on the west the church of All Saints, and is a large building of stone, originally built probably early in the 16th century.
3 days ago · Aethelwold, Abbot of Abingdon from 954 to 963 and thereafter Bishop of Winchester, was one of the three men who brought England into the movement for monastic reform that had started in...
4 days ago · At some distance south-west of the church is the Abbey, formerly known as the Rectory House, the residence of Colonel Henry Norton Good, at one time a grange of Abingdon Abbey, and afterwards the seat of the Justice family. It is a quadrangular building, of which the west, north and south wings date from the 14th century.
6 days ago · Wessex. Father. Edmund I. Mother. Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury. Edgar (or Eadgar; [1] c. 944 – 8 July 975) was King of the English from 959 until his death in 975. He became king of all England on his brother's death. He was the younger son of King Edmund I and his first wife Ælfgifu.
