abbot of Peterborough
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A list of the abbots of the abbey of Peterborough, known until the late 10th century as "Medeshamstede".
Abbots
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| Sexwulf
|c. 654– | |Founder. Bishop of Mercia c. 676–?x692. |
| Cuthbald
|c. 676 | | |
| Egbald
|before 716 | | |
| Pusa
| | | |
| Botwine
|?x765– | | |
| Beonna
|?x789– | | |
| Ceolred
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| 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 | | |
| {{ill|Turold of Fécamp|fr|Turold 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. |
| 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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