Abbot of Peterborough
A list of the abbots of the abbey of Peterborough, known until the late 10th century as "Medeshamstede".
Abbots
Name | Dates | Works | Notes |
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Sexwulf | c. 654– c. 676 | Founder. Bishop of Mercia c. 676–?x692. | |
Cuthbald | c. 676 | ||
Egbald | before 716 | ||
Pusa | |||
Botwine | ?x765– 779x? | ||
Beonna | ?x789– 805x? | ||
Ceolred | |||
Hedda | 870 | ||
Ealdwulf | 972-992 | Archbishop of York, 995–1002. | |
Cenwulf | 992-1006 | Built wall around the abbey. | Bishop of Winchester, 1006. |
Ælfsige | 1006–1042 | Accompanied Æthelred the Unready and Emma to Normandy in 1013. | |
Earnwig | 1042–1052 | A "very good man and very sincere", he "resigned although still in good health". | |
Leofric | 1057–1066 | Endowed the monastery "so that it became known as 'Golden Borough'". | |
Brand | 1066–1069 | ||
Turold of Fécamp [fr] | 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 through 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 Morcott | 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 complicity during the Dissolution with being made first bishop of Peterborough - care for the former abbey church, which became the bishop's cathedral, passed to the dean of Peterborough. |
Sources
- '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.
- Peterborough Chronicle.
- Stenton, F.M., "Medeshamstede and its Colonies", in Stenton, D.M. (ed.), Preparatory to 'Anglo-Saxon England'being the collected Papers of Frank Merry Stenton, OUP, 1970.
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