Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 4, Salisbury. Originally published by Institute of Historical Research, London, 1991.
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'Prebendaries: Upavon', in Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 4, Salisbury, (London, 1991) pp. 103-104. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/fasti-ecclesiae/1066-1300/vol4/pp103-104 [accessed 26 April 2024]
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LIST 59 PREBENDARIES OF UPAVON
PREBEND
Church of Upavon (Wilts.), which was already in the possession of the Norman abbey of Saint-Wandrille, created preb. by bp. H[erbert Poore] 1194 × 1207 (Cal. Docs. France no. 182). (fn. 1) Abbots of Saint-Wandrille became cans. of cath. (ibid.; cf. RSO II 61, 104), prob. in exchange for abbot's gr. to bp. and cath. of churches of Whitchurch, Sherston and Wilsford (RSO I 229-33; IV/E.3/Whitechurch & Sorestan/1, 3).
Preb. last to be added to Psalter list.
Preb. consisted of church of Upavon and chapel of Charlton, with tithes and land, and pension in chapel of Rushall; also pensions in churches of Boughton and Moutlon (Northants) and Bridport (Dorset); administered from priory at Upavon (see J. L. Kirby in VCH Wilts. III 396-7 and D. A. Crowley ibid. X 164-5, 166). Prior of Upavon acted as proctor of abbot; surrendered right to houses in Salisbury close 1289 (HMC Var. Coll. I 346). For earlier documentation, see F. Lot, Etudes critiques sur l'abbaye de Saint-Wandrille (Paris, 1913) pp. ciii-cv, nos. 72, 76, 98; also Cal. Docs. France nos. 60, 174, 175; Papsturkunden in Frankreich, ed. J. Ramackers (Göttingen, 1937) nos. 17, 39. See also VCH Wilts. III. 396-7 and X 162-72.
Pr.-preb.; cantoris side; term of residence c. 1270: July-Sept.
Valuations
1220s 20m.; 1226 20m.; c. 1284 20m.; 1291 £26 13s. 4d.
PREBENDARIES
The prebendaries of Upavon were the abbots of Saint-Wandrille, whose proctors in England were the priors of Upavon. For a list of the latter, see J. L. Kirby, in VCH Wilts. III 397.
ABBOTS OF SAINT-WANDRILLE
Reginald
El. 1194 (GC XI 181). Occ. at Rouen 16 Oct. 1197 (Landon, Itin. Ric. I p. 123). Adm. as preb. of Upavon 1212 × 17 (Cal. Docs. France no. 182, as 'R.'; cf. RSO I 229-33 as 'R.', but IV/E.3/Whitechurch & Sorestan/1 gives 'Reginaldus'). D. in England 24 Sept. 1207 (GC XI 181).
Robert
El. 1207 (GC XI 181). D. Apr. 1219 (ibid.).
William de Braio (fn. 2)
Prior, el. abbot 1219 (GC XI 181). Excused, not named, 15 Aug. 1226 (RSO II 61); not summoned 9 Sept. 1228 (ibid. p. 104). Res. 1235 (annals of Saint-Wandrille, in Rec. Hist. France XXIII 425).
Robert de Antonio
Prior, el. abbot 1235; d. 10 May 1244 (ibid. p. 425)
Peter Mauvyel
Monk, instal. as abbot 17 July 1244; d. 26 Oct. '1255', but 1254 must be intended (ibid.; cf. below).
Geoffrey de Naytot
Prior, conf. as abbot by abp. of Rouen 3 Nov. 1254 (J. de Laborde, Layette du trésor des chartes III (Paris, 1875) no. 4127; annals of Saint-Wandrille p. 425 and n. 6). Occ. 11 June 1262 (Cart. Bradenstoke no. 547), 21 Nov. 1285 (ibid. no. 503), and 25 Feb. 1286 (ibid. no. 557). D. 18 Apr. 1288 (annals of Saint-Wandrille p. 426).
William de Noirevilla
Prior, succeeded as abbot 1288 (ibid.), May (GC XI 181). D. 1303 or 1304 (annals of Saint-Wandrille p. 426).