The English Province of the Order of Cluny in the Fifteenth Century

Rose Graham

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The English Province of the Order of Cluny in the Fifteenth Century

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Rose Graham

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During the schism in the papacy, when France recognised the pope at Avignon and England the pope at Rome, the relations between Cluny and the English province were broken off completely; Urban VI and Boniface IX put the English Cluniacs under the provisional government of the archbishop of Canterbury and the priors of Thetford and Bermondsey, who nominated priors as vacancies occurred and summoned provincial chapters. When England and France both recognised Pope Alexander V in 1409 and the schism came to an end, it was not possible to revert to the earlier relations between the mother-houses in France and their dependencies in England. National feeling against French superiors had been intensified by the long wars, and some French monasteries had sold their English possessions. The abbots of Cluny aimed at recovering all the rights which they had lost during the wars and the schism.

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Information: Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , Volume 7 , December 1924 , pp. 98 - 130

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^{page 114 note 5} Suppliques Eugen., IV, No. 261, f. 141b. I am indebted to Dom U. Berliere, O.S.B., for a transcript of this document from the register at the Vatican.

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^{page 118 note 2} Ibid., op. cit., II, p. 75.

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^{page 118 note 4} Ibid., II, p. 217.

^{page 118 note 5} Registrant Whethamstede, I, p. 317.

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^{page 123 note 1} Rot. Pat., 20 Ed. IV, Pt. 1, m. 3.

^{page 123 note 2} Rot. Pat., 19 Ed. IV, m. 25 ; cf. Rot. Pat., 11 Ed. IV, Pt. 1, m. 10.

^{page 123 note 3} Rot. Pat., 8 Ed. IV, Pt. 2, m. 23.

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^{page 123 note 6} Rot. Pat., 22 Ed. IV, Pt. 1, m. 22.

^{page 123 note 7} Early Chancery Proceedings, Bundle 47, No. 58.

^{page 124 note 1} Rot. Pat., 1 Hen. VII, Pt. 2, m. 22 (4).

^{page 124 note 2} Cal. of Letters Patent, 1485–94, p. 110.

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^{page 124 note 4} Rolls of Parliament, VI, p. 434.

^{page 125 note 1} cal, of Letters Patent, 1485–94, p. 300.

^{page 125 note 2} Archiepiscopal Registers of Canterbury, Morton, I, f. 29.

^{page 125 note 3} Ibid.

^{page 126 note 1} Cal. of Letters Patent, 1485–94, p. 373.

^{page 126 note 2} Register of Wenlock, ff. 47–48. I wish to express my grateful thanks to Lord Forester for the loan of this manuscript.

^{page 126 note 3} Wilkins, Concilia, III, pp. 630–2 ; cf. p. 619.

^{page 127 note 1} L. Guilloreau,“Les Prieurés Anglais de l'Ordre de Cluny,”Congrés du Milléaire de Cluny (Académie de Mâcon, 1910), I, p. 291–373 ; and Revue Mabillon, viii, pp. 1–42, 159–88.

^{page 129 note 1} Became Benedictine in the thirteenth century, cf. p. 121, note 6.

^{page 130 note 1} V. C. H., Yorkshire, III, pp. 91–93.

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