• The Abbot of Abingdon was the head (or abbot) of Anglo-Saxon and eventually Benedictine house of Abingdon Abbey at Abingdon-on-Thames in northern Berkshire...
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  • Ælfric of Abingdon (died 16 November 1005) was a late 10th-century Archbishop of Canterbury. He previously held the offices of abbot of St Albans Abbey...
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  • Siward (died 1048) was Abbot of Abingdon in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) and a bishop in the Diocese of Canterbury. Siward was a monk at Glastonbury until...
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    later Bishop of Winchester, abbot. He was one of the leaders of the English Benedictine Reform, and Abingdon then became the second centre of the Reform...
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    Eadred (redirect from Edred of england)
    to two of its leaders, Æthelwold, whom he appointed Abbot of Abingdon, and Dunstan. However, like earlier kings he did not share the view of the circle...
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    Abingdon-on-Thames (/ˈæbɪŋdən/ AB-ing-dən), commonly known as Abingdon, is a historic market town and civil parish on the River Thames in the Vale of...
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    Friesland (773) Saint Ælfric of Abingdon (Aelfric), monk and Abbot of Abingdon, later Bishop of Wilton and twenty-ninth Archbishop of Canterbury in 995 (1005)...
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  • the school – 1256 – a charter of Abingdon Abbey recording an endowment by Abbot John de Blosneville for the support of thirteen poor scholars. In the...
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    (son of Edward the Elder) (died 933) Eadwine of Sussex (died 982), Ealdorman of Sussex Eadwine of Abingdon (died 990), Abbot of Abingdon Edwin, Earl of Mercia...
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    appointed him abbot of the former monastic site of Abingdon Abbey, which was then served by secular priests. The years he spent in Abingdon were extremely...
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    Chronicon de Abingdon which relates a dispute over ownership of a river meadow named Beri between the Abbot of Abingdon and the men of Oxfordshire. The...
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  • exchange of land between Bishop Brihthelm and Æthelwold, then abbot of Abingdon. and both their names occur among “illustrious” benefactors on a leaf of the...
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  • Wulfgar, Abbot of Abingdon was appointed Abbot of Abingdon in 990 AD and died in 1016. (Kelly 2000) An advisor of Æthelred the Unready, he is praised in...
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  • Æthelstan was Abbot of Abingdon in the 11th century. Æthelstan became Abbot of Abingdon about 1044, following Siward's promotion. He was remembered as...
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  • History of the Church of Abingdon (sometimes known by its older printed title of Chronicon Monasterii de Abingdon or occasionally as the Abingdon Chronicle)...
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  • prominent Abbot of Abingdon. Rainald was a former monk of Jumièges who was King William I's chaplain when he was appointed Abbot of Abingdon by him in...
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    Stafford and Lovell rebellion (category Henry VII of England)
    suspected of being involved in the revolt, was stripped of his stewardship of Middleham and had a £2,000 bond imposed. The Abbot of Abingdon, who had organised...
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  • Æthelwine of Abingdon (died 1030), abbot of Abingdon Æthelwine (Bishop of Durham) (died 1071), bishop of Durham Æthelwine of Lindsey, bishop of Lindsey...
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    and 1817. Abbot was born on the South side of Roysse Court, Abingdon, Abbot to Dr John Abbot, headmaster of Abingdon School and rector of All Saints...
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  • Ethelwine (or Æthelwine) was Abbot of Abingdon. Æthelsige died in 1018 and was succeeded by Æthelwine (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, version E), who is said...
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    Westminster Baldwin, abbot of Bury St Edmunds Turold, abbot of Peterborough Adelelm, abbot of Abingdon Riwallon ('Rualodus'), abbot of Winchester New Minster...
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    Ethelwold as Abbot of Abingdon (981) Venerable Gregory (Drimys) of the Great Lavra on Mount Athos (Gregory the Byzantine) (1310), instructor of St. Gregory...
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    Abbot of Peterborough Simon, Abbot of Reading Robert of Hendred, Abbot of Abingdon John Walsh, Abbot of Malmesbury the Abbot of Winchcombe the Abbot of...
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  • Osgar (category Abbots of Abingdon)
    Osgar was a 10th-century Abbot of Abingdon in the English county of Berkshire (now Oxfordshire). Osgar was a cleric in minor orders who went with Saint...
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  • Spearhafoc (category Abbots of Abingdon)
    artistic talent was apparently the cause of his rapid elevation to Abbot of Abingdon in 1047–48 and Bishop-Elect of London in 1051. After his consecration...
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  • king of Götaland Siward (Abbot of Abingdon) (died 1048), Bishop of St. Martins Siward, Earl of Northumbria (died 1055), Anglo-Scandinavian earl of Northumbria...
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  • Eadsige (category Archbishops of Canterbury)
    consecrating Siward, abbot of Abingdon in Eadsige's place. This retirement lasted until 1048, when Siward became ill and returned to Abingdon to die within eight...
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  • Eadwine was Abbot of Abingdon. Eadwine was the brother of Ealdorman Ælfric of Hampshire[citation needed], who purchased the abbacy for him in 985; he...
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    chronological order. One is addressed to Faritius, Abbot of Abingdon, to defend himself from a charge of heresy. He has defended and shows that his teaching...
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    Radley (category Vale of White Horse)
    The church is built of stone, but unusually its roof is supported by wooden pillars installed by a medieval Abbot of Abingdon, who was told in a vision...
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