The Abbot of Rievaulx was the head of the Cistercian monastic community of Rievaulx Abbey, founded in 1131 by Walter l'Espec in North Yorkshire, northern...

January 1167) was an English Cistercian monk and writer who served as Abbot of Rievaulx from 1147 until his death. He is venerated by the Catholic Church...

community, that of Wardon Abbey in Bedfordshire, on unprofitable wasteland on one of his inherited estates. William I, the first abbot of Rievaulx, started construction...

familiarity with the French language. Aelred of Rievaulx, the English Cistercian monk, was abbot of Rievaulx from 1147 until his death in 1167. He is regarded...

treatise on eremitical life by Saint Ælred, Abbot of Rievaulx, England, who died in 1166. The two preceding rules are of unknown authorship. Letter 211 and Sermons...

of England Ethelred of Scotland (fl. 1093), son of Malcolm III and Saint Margaret Aelred of Rievaulx (1110–1167), English writer, saint and abbot of Rievaulx...

resigned as abbot in 1147 upon becoming archbishop of York. He was replaced first by Maurice, Abbot of Rievaulx (1147-8), then, on the resignation of Maurice...

1179. Abbot from January 1179; in March 1189, elected as Abbot of Rievaulx. Formerly Abbot of Kinloss Resigned Melrose in 1194. Formerly Abbot of Kinloss...

Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 13 January: Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher of the Faith, 367 17 January: Antony of Egypt, Hermit, Abbot, 356...

Archbishop of Canterbury, 1645 11 Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915 12 Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 12 Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth...

Prize. Godric of Finchale is joined at his hermitage on the banks of the River Wear by Reginald, a monk sent by the abbot of Rievaulx Abbey with instructions...

garrison of Wark surrendered on the orders of the castle's owner (Walter Espec), conveyed by the abbot of Rievaulx. The garrison had eaten all but two of their...

Tapiedi (one of the Anglican New Guinea Martyrs). Aelred of Hexham (1110–1167), Abbot of Rievaulx—12 January Aidan (d. 651), Bishop of Lindisfarne—31...

records some of the miracles attributed to him. A Life of Saint Ninian (Vita Sancti Niniani) was written around 1160 by Ailred of Rievaulx, and in 1639...

requested that they too might have a dress and rule of life, on the advice of William, abbot of Rievaulx, he decided to add lay sisters to the community....

Aelred, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 13 Hilary of Poitiers, Bishop, 367 16 Richard Meux Benson, Priest, 1915, and Charles Gore, Bishop, 1932 17 Antony of Egypt...

Harry Scriven who conned the Abbot of Rievaulx Abbey into letting him ride his horse (a white mare, the so called derivation of White Mare Cliff (another...

connections with Ailred, who spent part of his career as a member of David's court before becoming Abbot of Rievaulx. According to Vita Ailredi, it was Ailred...

conducted by the Abbot of Rievaulx. 1228–1237: Death of King Olaf on St Patrick's Isle, and burial at Rushen Abbey. 1250–1256: Start of reign of King Magnus...

group of Benedictine monks from the monastery of Molesme founded Cîteaux Abbey in 1098. The first three abbots were Robert of Molesme, Alberic of Cîteaux...

November after the abbot of Rievaulx negotiated a surrender allowing the starved defenders to leave honourably with their arms. The fall of Wark contributed...

The saint Ailred, Cistercian abbot of Rievaulx, was Alfred's great-grandson. Alfred was an assiduous collector of relics of saints for Cuthbert's shrine...

elected abbot of Rievaulx, Dundrennan's mother-house. Known only by a graveslab; graveslab thought to date to the 13th century. Became abbot on 20 May...

Elizabeth Elstob (1683–1756). Aelred of Rievaulx. Known as Ælred (1110–1167), who served as abbot of Rievaulx. Lives of S. Ninian and S. Kentigern (1874)...

evidenced by the fact that it was Silvan, Abbot of Rievaulx—and not Christian—who conducted the marriage ceremony of Guðrøðr and Findguala during Vivian's...

specified by the founders of the Cistercian order. The first abbot, Simon, was a pupil of Aelred, Abbot of Rievaulx. The success of the abbey may be inferred...

building. "Cowper [known as Kirkby], Edward (d. 1557), abbot of Rievaulx". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press...

priest of St Stephen in Celio Monte. The fact that this ceremony was conducted by Silvan, Abbot of Rievaulx—and not Christian—could be evidence of antipathy...

English abbot and saint. He was the son of Simon I of St Liz, 1st Earl of Northampton and Maud, 2nd Countess of Huntingdon, thus stepson to David I of Scotland...

may have taught Ailred, later abbot of Rievaulx. Lawrence took up a place in the bishop's court during the episcopate of Geoffrey Rufus (1133–1141). Probably...