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A History of the County of Middlesex
… as confirming a grant of lands in Glouc. to the Abbey of Fontevrault; Round, Cal of Doc. France, i, 286, 380, 385. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… The manor of ELMESTREE was granted in the 12th century to Fontevrault Abbey by Reynold de St. Valery and his son …
A History of the County of Worcester
… made about 1170, which gave the church to the nuns of Fontevrault settled at Westwood near Droitwich. 58 The gift …
A History of the County of Warwick
… Earl of Leicester, founded here a nunnery of the Order of Fontevrault. 31 The whole lordship, which therefore became …
The Cartulary of Holy Trinity, Aldgate
… was reeve. In 1154 Henry II was crowned and he lies at Fontevrault. In his reign, Peter son of Walter, John son of … 1189 Richard I was crowned and he lies with his father at Fontevrault. During his reign there began to be two sheriffs …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… 6 They appear to have been those granted to the abbey of Fontevrault in 1189. 7 It appears, from a papal confirmation … here referred to was a pond belonging to the abbey of Fontevrault, probably attached to the mills granted to the …
Calendar of Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland
… immediately subject to the Roman church, of the order of Fontevrault, in the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield. … of the said priory, in the time when the parent house of Fontevrault was schismatic, on its voidance by death [name …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… to the Blessed Virgin, for six nuns of the order of Fontevrault, was founded in the reign of Henry II., and at …