Reference
Fasti/3/Els
Title
ELSTOW ABBEY
Founded near the end of C11th by Judith, widow of Earl Waltheof and a niece of William I; a Benedictine foundation
Abbesses:
- Cecilia - c.1180;
- an abbess died in this year - 1213;
- Mabilia - 1219 and 1222 [mentioned in these years];
- Wimarea - 1239;
- Agnes de Westbir' - 1241 [elected, licence first having been obtained from Henry III; on death of Wymar];
- Albreda de Fisecampo - 1249 [on resignation of Agnes de Westbir'];
- Anora;
- Beatrice de Scoteney - 6 May 1281 [on death of Anora];
- Clementia de Baliol - 18 Sep 1294 [on death of Beatrice de Scoteney];
- Johanna de Wauton - 7 Jul 1315;
- Elizabeth de Beauchamp - 18 Nov 1318 [on death of Johanna de Wauton];
- Julia Bassett - 11 Oct 1331 [on death of Elizabeth de Beauchamp];
- Elizabeth Morteyn - 2 Oct 1333 [on death of Julia Bassett];
- Dna.Anastasia Den - 1370;
- Dna.Margaret Pygot - 13 Dec 1392 [on renunciation of Anastasia Den];
- Johanna Trayley - 14 Dec 1409;
- Rose Waldegrave;
- Elizabeth Hasylden - 1463 [occurs until 1473];
- Margaret Godfrey - 23 Mar 1487;
- Elizabeth Hervey - 5 Nov 1501 [daughter of John Hervey of Thurleigh, Master of King's Ordnance and Joan his wife, daughter and coheir of St.John Niernuyt of Burnham [Buckinghamshire]; her brass in Elstow church, laid down in her lifetime, is the only one extant of an abbess];
- Dna.Agnes Gascoign - 11 Jun 1524 [nun of Monastery de Pratis juxta Northampton; alected by Dna.Anna Wake, prioress, with consent of Henry VIII, the founder; on death of Dna.Elizabeth Harvy];
- Dna.Elizabeth Boyfeld - 15 Jul 1530 [on death of Dna.Agnes Gascoigne; submitted to Supremacy of Henry VIII on 27 Aug 1539]
NOTE: Dna. = "Domina" meaning Lady
Date free text
c.1090 - 1539
Production date
From: 1090 To: 1539
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