Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface (2001)
- Preface (1972)
- List of manuscripts referred to
- List of printed books and articles cited, with abbreviated references
- List of other abbreviations
- Introduction
- HEADS OF RELIGIOUS HOUSES: ENGLAND AND WALES 940–1216
- THE BENEDICTINE HOUSES
- THE CLUNIAC HOUSES
- THE CISTERCIAN HOUSES
- THE CARTHUSIAN MONKS
- THE AUGUSTINIAN CANONS
- THE PREMONSTRATENSIAN CANONS
- THE GILBERTINE CANONS AND NUNS
- THE NUNS
- APPENDICES
- Addendum (1972)
- Corrigenda and Addenda
- Additional Bibliography
- Index of Heads
- Index of Religious Houses
THE CARTHUSIAN MONKS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface (2001)
- Preface (1972)
- List of manuscripts referred to
- List of printed books and articles cited, with abbreviated references
- List of other abbreviations
- Introduction
- HEADS OF RELIGIOUS HOUSES: ENGLAND AND WALES 940–1216
- THE BENEDICTINE HOUSES
- THE CLUNIAC HOUSES
- THE CISTERCIAN HOUSES
- THE CARTHUSIAN MONKS
- THE AUGUSTINIAN CANONS
- THE PREMONSTRATENSIAN CANONS
- THE GILBERTINE CANONS AND NUNS
- THE NUNS
- APPENDICES
- Addendum (1972)
- Corrigenda and Addenda
- Additional Bibliography
- Index of Heads
- Index of Religious Houses
Summary
WITHAM (Soms), St Mary f. 1178×9
List in VCH Soms, II, 128. Basis in MVH of St Hugh, and Ch. Witham, ed. E. M. Thompson, BJRL, XVI (1932), 482–506, and A. Wilmart, Analecta Praemonstratensia, IX (1933), 215–32 – p. nos. in brackets. The MVH, ii, 1 (1, pp. 46–7, cf. p. XXV) describes the first two prs. without naming them: the first soon res., the second d.; St Hugh was the third from c. 1180.
Narbert c. 1178–c. 1179 For his name see Le Couteulx, Ann., II, 456 (cf. E. M. Thompson (1930), p. 51).
Hamo c. 1179–c. 1180 Named in cht. of c. 1180 (Ctl. Bruton, no. 138), and so presumably the second pr. who d. c. 1180.
St Hugh of Avalon c. 1180–1186 For him as pr. see MVH, bk. ii (1, 47ff.); E. M. Thompson (1930), pp. 54–5; MO, pp. 381ff.; Gir. Camb., VII, 92–3. Res. when el. bp. of Lincoln, May 1186 (consec. 21 Sept.) but retained authority over Witham (Ch. Witham, pp. 506– (231)); d. 1200. Occ. 1181 (MVH, ii, 6, I, 64–8; cf. p. XXV).
Albert de Portes c. 1186– M. of Portes and Witham; dep. by St Hugh (Ch. Witham, pp. 506–6 (231)). Occ. 1191 (Ch. Witham, p. 506).
*Bovo –c. 1201 M. Chartreuse (MVH, ii, 3, 1, 54); res. c. 1200 (Le Couteulx, Ann., II, 280); cf. E. M. Thompson (1930), pp. 70, 74.
Robert I c. 1201– M. and procurator Witham, made pr. +1200 (MVH, v, 16, II, 195; cf. Ch. Witham, p. 502n.); occ. 1205 (Ch. Witham, pp. 501ff. (224ff.)).
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- The Heads of Religious HousesEngland and Wales, I 940–1216, pp. 149Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001