List of abbots of Peterborough
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A list of the abbots of the abbey of Peterborough.
[edit] Abbots
| Name | Dates | Works | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saxulf | 654 | ||
| Cuthbald | 675 | ||
| Egbald | before 716 | ||
| Pusa | |||
| Beonna | |||
| Ceolver | |||
| Hedda | 870 | ||
| Ealdwulf | 972-992 | ||
| Kenulf | 992-1005 | bishop of Winchester, 1005 | |
| Elsin | 1006-1055 | ||
| Ernwin | 1055-1057 | ||
| Leofric | 1057-1066 | ||
| Brand | 1066-1069 | ||
| Thorold/Torold de Fécamp | 1069-1098 | viewed the abbey as a source of personal wealth for himself and his associates with his enfeoffments accounting for 46% of the abbey's property. | |
| Godric | 4 days in 1099 | ||
| Matthias | 1103-1104 | ||
| Ernulf | 1107-1114 | Began a building campaign. | bishop of Rochester, 1115. He was influential in restoring the abbey's finances |
| John de Séez | 1114-1125 | continued the building work and, though in 1116 a great fire caused considerable damage, rebuilding began in 1117. | |
| Abbey held by King Henry I | 1125-1127 | ||
| Henry de Angeli | 1128-1133 | Did nothing towards the rebuilding. | He wasted the goods of the abbey and was banished. |
| Martin de Bec | 1133-1155 | Continued construction works | Formerly a monk of Bec and prior of St Neots. |
| William of Waterville | 1155-1175 | Deposed | |
| Benedict | 1177-1194 | Chronicler | |
| Andrew | 1194-1199 | west front | |
| Acharius | 1200-1210 | west front | |
| Robert of Lindsey | 1214-1222 | ||
| Alexander of Holderness | 1222-1226 | ||
| Martin of Ramsey | 1226-1233 | ||
| Walter of Bury St. Edmunds | 1233-1245 | Abbot at the time of the building's final completion of the building by the solemn dedication of the Church on 6, October 1238 | |
| William of Hotoft | 1246-1249 | ||
| John de Caux | 1250-1262 | ||
| Robert of Sutton | 1262-1273 | ||
| Richard of London | 1274-1295 | ||
| William of Woodford | 1295-1299 | ||
| Godfrey of Crowland | 1299-1321 | A chapel of St Thomas of Canterbury was built between the church and the Lady Chapel. | |
| Adam of Boothby | 1321-1338 | ||
| Henry of Morcot | 1338-1353 | ||
| Robert of Ramsey | 1353-1361 | ||
| Henry of Overton | 1361-1391 | ||
| Nicholas of Elmstow | 1391-1396 | ||
| William Genge | 1397-1408 | ||
| John Deeping | 1409-1439 | ||
| Richard Ashton | 1439-1471 | ||
| William Ramsey | 1471-1496 | ||
| Robert Kirton | 1496-1528 | The latest part of the Church, and the only ever enlargement of the eastern arm, the square ended building at the east known as "the new building". | |
| John Chambers | 1528-1539 | rewarded for complacency during the Dissolution by becoming first bishop of Peterborough - care for the former abbey church, which became the bishop's cathedral, passed to the dean of Peterborough |
[edit] Sources
- http://www.peterborough.gov.uk/page-5878
- 'Houses of Benedictine monks: The abbey of Peterborough', A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 2 (1906), pp. 83-95. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=40221. Date accessed: 29 May 2007.
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