• Amesbury Abbey was a Benedictine abbey of women at Amesbury in Wiltshire, England, founded by Queen Ælfthryth in about the year 979 on what may have been...
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    Amesbury before being disinterred and translated to Glastonbury Abbey to lie beside her husband, King Arthur. The tradition of Guinevere's Amesbury burial...
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    Amesbury Abbey is a Grade I listed mansion in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England, built in the 1830s for Sir Edmund Antrobus to designs of Thomas Hopper. The...
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  • 1177 to replace the earlier Amesbury Abbey, a Saxon foundation established about the year 979. The Anglo-Norman Amesbury Priory was disbanded at the Dissolution...
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    Anjou (1149–1154) Audeburge of Hautes-Bruyères (1155–1180) She founded Amesbury Abbey, near Stonehenge in England, in 1177 Gilles or Gillette (1180–1189)...
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    Priory or its 12th-century successor, Amesbury Abbey. The 1086 Domesday Book did not record a church or priest at Amesbury. The church stands close to the River...
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    Eleanor of Provence (category Burials at Amesbury Abbey)
    Crittall, Elizabeth, eds. (1956). "Houses of Benedictine nuns: Abbey, later priory, of Amesbury". A History of the County of Wiltshire, Volume 3. Victoria...
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    Eleanor of Brittany (abbess) (category Amesbury Abbey)
    join her at Amesbury. In March 1291 she took her vows and became a nun and some time afterwards (possibly 1294) she moved to Fontevrault Abbey in the Loire...
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    Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany (category Burials at Amesbury Abbey)
    at Amesbury Abbey, according to her wishes, announced by Henry III. She also donated her body there. Considering the association between Amesbury and...
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  • Ontario, Canada Amesbury, Massachusetts, US Amesbury (CDP), Massachusetts, a US census-designated place Amesbury Abbey, Amesbury, England Amesbury Priory, England...
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  • Ælfthryth (wife of Edgar) (category Amesbury Abbey)
    that she founded both Amesbury Abbey and Wherwell Abbey as Benedictine nunneries, though the foundation histories of both abbeys are poorly attested and...
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    Guinevere (category Amesbury Abbey)
    Nuneaton, and given the royal connections of its sister house at Amesbury, he chose Amesbury Priory as the monastery to which Guinevere retires as "abbas...
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    Montagu and his wife Margaret de Monthermer. At an unknown date she entered Amesbury Priory and became a nun, then in 1391 was elected the monastery's prioress...
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    little-wooded upper valley plains and sides: Conock Manor, Chirton Amesbury Abbey Lake House, Wilsford Heale House, Middle Woodford Wilton House (including...
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    Chiswick House, Kew Gardens, Wimpole Hall, Briggens House in Essex, and Amesbury Abbey in Wiltshire. However, Bridgeman perhaps remains best known for his...
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    Antrobus baronets (category Amesbury Abbey)
    was succeeded by his younger brother, the fifth Baronet. Most of the Amesbury Abbey estate in Wiltshire was sold the same year. The fifth Baronet died unmarried...
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    Mary of Woodstock (category Burials at Amesbury Abbey)
    daughter of Edward I of England and Eleanor of Castile. She was a nun at Amesbury Priory, but lived very comfortably thanks to a generous allowance from...
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    1301 – 19 March 1330) Eleanor (4 May 1306 – 1311) Died at Amesbury Abbey, buried at Beaulieu Abbey. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Margaret of France...
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    Stonehenge (category Amesbury)
    structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, two miles (3 km) west of Amesbury. It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each...
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    Melor (category Amesbury Abbey)
    10th-century Breton saint who, in England, was venerated in Cornwall and at Amesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, which claimed some of his relics. Melor had a popular cult...
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  • basements and attics. The south front was based on John Webb's 1661 Amesbury Abbey, where Benson had been a tenant. The original design for the house was...
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    1236 20 January 1236 16 November 1272 Husband's death 24 June 1291 Amesbury Abbey Henry III Eleanor of Castile Ferdinand III of Castile Joan, Countess...
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    Domesday Book recorded 39 households at Bulford, within an estate of Amesbury Abbey. The name is derived from the Old English bulut ieg ford meaning 'ragged...
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    recorded land held by St Mary's Abbey, Winchester at Caninge, with 58 households and a mill; and land held by Amesbury Abbey at Allentone, with 32 households...
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    the manor of Wigley, and the rent of tenants at Cadnam was paid to Amesbury Abbey until the Dissolution. Land at Cadnam and Winsor was granted with the...
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    Domesday Book recorded 37 households at Wintreburne, and land held by Amesbury Abbey. The name Winterbourne refers to seasonal streams in the area, which...
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    more were erected: at Prior Park, Bath; Hagley, Worcestershire; and Amesbury Abbey. Empress Catherine the Great commissioned another copy, known as the...
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    Nile Clumps (category Amesbury)
    Nelson's mistress, Emma Hamilton – planted clumps of beech trees on his Amesbury Abbey estate to commemorate him, as part of an expansion of the parkland to...
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    Vespasian's Camp is an Iron Age hillfort just west of the town of Amesbury, Wiltshire, England. The hillfort is less than 3 kilometres (2 mi) from the...
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    baronets. his great grandson was john beaumont Eleanora Beaumont, a nun at Amesbury Abbey. Elizabeth (or Cecilia) Beaumont, married, as his first wife, William...
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