THE GILBERTINE CANONS AND NUNS

Summary

For the houses founded before 1216, no name has been found for this period for Bridge End, Dunstall (or Tunstall), Marlborough, Marmont or Mattersey (for Dunstall, see Haverholme, p. 202 n. 5).

For the Masters of the Order, see under Sempringham.

It is noticeable that in the Gilbertine lists, so far as they can be reconstructed, a few names recur in two or three or more lists; and that these include three exceptionally rare names, Cyprian, Gamel and Torphinus. The repetition of these names strongly suggests that it was a common practice to move priors from one house to another. Though this may seem clear in general, it cannot, in the nature of the case, be proved by identity of name alone in any individual instance. Thus, rather than encumber the lists with cross-references of doubtful value, it seems best to provide an index of the names which occur in the lists: a full index, for convenience, of names appearing more than once, but obviously more significance is likely to attach to Cyprian, Torphinus, Gamel and Vivian and possibly to Adam, Eudo, Martin and Simon, than to the very common names Gilbert, Henry, John and William. In each case only one or two occ. dates have been given: for fuller details, see lists.

Adam: 1164 (Lincoln);1208 (Sempringham); 1214, 1219 (Malton).

Alan:1164 (Haverholme); 1226 (Newstead).

Baldwin: 1219, 1220 (York).

Bartholomew:1201Χ10, 1208 (York).

Cf. B.:1197Χ9, –c. 1200 (Catley).

Cyprian: 1197Χ9,1177Χ1212 (Sixhills);1201, 1204Χ7 (Malton).

Eudo: 1176Χ1203 (Sixhills); 1195, –1201 (Sempringham).

Gamel: 1202 (Alvingham); 1209 (Bullington).

Geoffrey: 1174 (Alvingham).

*Gilbert: () St Gilbert, the founder, Master of Sempringham 1131c. 1188; (2) Other references:1169 (Malton), 1202 (Lincoln); 1205–25 (Master of Sempringham).