Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Table of monastic foundations in Yorkshire, by order, congregation, or type
- Map 1 The Black Monks and the Regular Canons in Yorkshire
- Map 2 The Yorkshire Cistercians and their families
- Map 3 Nunneries in Yorkshire
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I THE DYNAMICS OF EXPANSION
- 1 FROM HERMITAGE TO ABBEY: THE BLACK MONKS IN YORKSHIRE
- 2 ALIEN MONKS AND CLUNIAC PRIORIES
- 3 THE REGULAR CANONS
- 4 THE SUREST ROAD TO HEAVEN: THE COMING OF THE CISTERCIANS
- 5 RELIGIOUS WOMEN
- Part II THE LIFE WITHIN AND THE WORLD OUTSIDE
- Conclusion
- Select bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought
3 - THE REGULAR CANONS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Table of monastic foundations in Yorkshire, by order, congregation, or type
- Map 1 The Black Monks and the Regular Canons in Yorkshire
- Map 2 The Yorkshire Cistercians and their families
- Map 3 Nunneries in Yorkshire
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I THE DYNAMICS OF EXPANSION
- 1 FROM HERMITAGE TO ABBEY: THE BLACK MONKS IN YORKSHIRE
- 2 ALIEN MONKS AND CLUNIAC PRIORIES
- 3 THE REGULAR CANONS
- 4 THE SUREST ROAD TO HEAVEN: THE COMING OF THE CISTERCIANS
- 5 RELIGIOUS WOMEN
- Part II THE LIFE WITHIN AND THE WORLD OUTSIDE
- Conclusion
- Select bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought
Summary
Founders and their Charters, 1114–C. 1140
The regular canons were, on the basis of the number of foundations, the most popular religious group in medieval Britain. In common with canonical foundations in all parts of England and Wales, not all Yorkshire's foundations were made de novo; some were preceded by institutions of another nature, communities either of secular clergy or hermits. There is evidence for the existence of a clerical group at Bridlington during the pontificate of Archbishop Thomas II of York (1109–14). At a date before 1114 the archbishop remitted to the church of St Mary, Bridlington, 6d which it was accustomed to render each year for chrism, and 2s for synodals. This, he stated, had been done ‘pro amore et honore sancte sanctarum domine nostre et fratrum qui in eius ecclesia deo serviunt’ (‘for the love and honour of our lady, the most holy of the saints, and for that of the brethren who serve God in her church’). This indicates that there was then a community serving the church of Bridlington, but does not of itself prove that it was then one of Augustinian canons. However, that a priory had come into existence by 1114 is suggested by two memoranda inserted in a Bridlington book of devotions (1510–12), preserved as Durham University Library MS Cosin U.V.19 (fo. 53r). The first reads:
Anno domini xiiij regni regis Henrici primi [pontificatus Thome secundi archiepiscopi] anno 9 vite vero penultimo ex assensu et precepto ejusdem Henrici regis Anglie fundata est domus de Brydlyngton per Walterum de Gant filium Gisbricti… Ipse Walterus favente Thoma Ebor(acense) archiepiscopo canonicos regulares in ecclesia de Brydlyngton fecit institui, et ipsam terris et possessionibus et ecclesiis dotavit.
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- The Monastic Order in Yorkshire, 1069–1215 , pp. 69 - 97Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1999