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The funeral hatchment of Mary, Dowager Countess of Abingdon, in St. Peter's Church, Dorchester, Dorset, England.On a lozenge, the arms of Bertie, "Argent, three battering rams fesswise in pale proper, headed and banded azure," with an escutcheon of pretence showing the arms of Gould, "Per saltire or and azure, a lion rampant counterchanged."
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The parish of St Helen's was large, extending well beyond the town of Abingdon. It included the villages of Shippon, Dry Sandford, Radley, Kennington and Drayton, as well as Abingdon itself. In 1372 the parish of St Nicolas was carved out of the parish, so that Abingdon was divided between two ecclesiastical parishes until they were reunited in ...
Siward was a monk at Glastonbury until he was appointed Abbot of Abingdon in 1030. [1] He was made coadjutor to the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1044. Kelly asserts Siward was titled Bishop of St Martin's , [ 2 ] but Somner finds no evidence of this, and claims Siward was consecrated Bishop of Uppsala . [ 3 ]
Historian Susan E. Kelly regards the traditional first six abbots as fictional: "There is good reason to think that in most cases their names were simply plucked from early charters available in the abbey's archive, the majority of which would seem to have had no connection with an early minister at Abingdon; there is no very convincing evidence that the historians had access to independent ...
Abingdon-on-Thames (/ ˈ æ b ɪ ŋ d ən / AB-ing-dən), commonly known as Abingdon, is a historic market town and civil parish [2] on the River Thames in the Vale of the White Horse district of Oxfordshire, England.
Kennington is a village and civil parish in the Vale of White Horse district of Oxfordshire, just south of Oxford. The village occupies a narrow stretch of land between the River Thames and the A34 dual carriageway. It was in Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire.
Ælfric of Abingdon [a] (died 16 November 1005) was a late 10th-century Archbishop of Canterbury. He previously held the offices of abbot of St Albans Abbey and Bishop of Ramsbury, as well as likely being the abbot of Abingdon Abbey. After his election to Canterbury, he continued to hold the bishopric of Ramsbury along with the archbishopric of ...