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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.

Culture, Religious Buildings in England, Religious Buildings by Order, Benedictine

Tynemouth Priory Abingdon Abbey Evesham Abbey Bedford Abbey St Neots Priory Amesbury Abbey, Wiltshire Wymondham Abbey, Norfolk Sele Priory Waldon Priory and Abbey Hatfield Regis aka Broad Oak Priory Great Malvern Priory

Benedictine is in Religious Buildings by Order.

Around 625 Tynemouth Priory [Map] was founded. It subsequently became a Benedictine house.

Around 675 Abingdon Abbey [Map] was a Benedictine monastery was a Benedictine monastery founded in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Between 700 and 710 Evesham Abbey [Map] was a Benedictine founded by Saint Egwin.

Around 971 Bedford Abbey [Map] was a short lived Benedictine Monastery whose Abbot was Abbot Thurkytel; its only known Abbot.

St Neots Priory [Map] was a Benedictine Priory founded in 974 by Earl Aelric (or Leofric) and his wife Aelfleda (or Ethelfleda) who granted it two hides of land, part of the manor of Eynesbury, later called the manor of St. Neots. It is said that the relics of the Cornish saint, St. Neot, were obtained illicitly from Neotstoke (now St. Neot) in Cornwall and brought to the priory in order that it might have relics to attract pilgrims; hence the name of the town.

Amesbury Abbey, Wiltshire [Map] was a Benedictine Nunnery founded around 979 by Aelfthryth Queen Consort England (age 34).

Wymondham Abbey, Norfolk [Map] was a Benedictine Abbey founded in 1107 by William "Pincerna aka Butler" D'Aubigny (age 43).

Sele Priory [Map] was a Benedictine Order priory founded before 1126.

All About History Books

The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.

Between 1136 and 1143 Geoffrey Mandeville 1st Earl Essex founded Waldon Priory and Abbey [Map] as a Benedictine Monastery.

In 1139 Hatfield Regis aka Broad Oak Priory [Map] was founded as Benedictine Priory. was a daughter house of the Breton monastery of Notre-Dame-en-Saint-Melaine de Rennes in Rennes, and was dedicated to "God, St Mary, and St. Melanius Redonensis". It was thus considered an "alien priory" as it was subordinate to a monastery outside England. It was dissolved in 1536.

Great Malvern Priory [Map] was a Benedictine monastery founded around 1075.