Abbot of St Albans
This is a list of abbots of St Albans Abbey up to its Dissolution in 1539.
- Willegod (793–796)
- Eadric
- Wulsig
- Wulnoth (Walworth) (c. 930)
- Eadfrith
- Wulsin (d. c. 968)
- Aelfric
- Ealdred
- Eadmer
- Leofric
- Ælfric of Abingdon (d. 1005)
- Leofstan
- Frithric (Frederic)
- Paul of Caen (1077–1093)
- Richard d'Aubeney (1097–1119)
- Geoffrey of Dunstable (1119–1146)
- Ralph Gubion (1146–1151)
- Robert de Gorron (1151–1166)
- Symon (1167–1183)
- Warin (1183–1195)
- John de Cella (1195–1214)
- William of Trumpington (1214–1235)
- John of Hertford (1235–1263)
- Roger de Norton (1263–1291)
- John of Berkhamsted (1291-1302)
- John de Maryns (1302–1308)
- Hugh of Eversden (1308–1327)
- Richard of Wallingford (1326–1335)
- Michael of Mentmore (1335–1349)
- Thomas de la Mare (1349–1396)
- John de la Moote (1396–1401)
- William Heyworth (1401–1420)
- John of Wheathampstead (John Whethamstede) (1420–1440) (resigned 1440)
- John Stoke (1440–1451)
- John of Wheathampstead (1451–1465) (appointed for a second time, 1451)
- William Albon (1465–1475)
- William of Wallingford (1476–1492)
- Thomas Ramryge (1492–1520)
- Thomas Wolsey (1521-1529/1530), Commendatory abbot
- Robert Catton (1529–1538)
- Richard Boreman alias Stevenage (1538–1539), last abbot
Sources
[edit]- British History Online - St Albans Abbey
- Gesta Abbatum (Riley ed., 1867) p. xx
- History of Verulam (S.G.Shaw, 1815)