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  2. Walden Abbey - Wikipedia

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    Walden Abbey was a Benedictine monastery in Saffron Walden, Essex, England, founded by Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex, between 1136 and 1143. Originally a priory, it was elevated to the status of an abbey in 1190. Soon after its founding, Earl Geoffrey was arrested by King Stephen. When released on surrender of his castles, the earl ...

  3. Audley End House - Wikipedia

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    Audley End was the site of Walden Abbey, a Benedictine monastery that was dissolved and granted to the Lord Chancellor Sir Thomas Audley in 1538 by Henry VIII.The abbey was converted to a domestic house for him with the conversion of the church which had three floors inserted into the nave, the rest of the church itself being demolished.

  4. List of monastic houses in Essex - Wikipedia

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    raised to abbey status 1190; dissolved 1538; granted to Sir Thomas Audley 1538; site now occupied by Audley End House and St. Mark's College The Priory Church of Saint Mary and Saint James the Apostle, Walden The Abbey Church of Saint Mary and Saint James the Apostle, Walden _____ Saffron Walden Abbey; Little Walden Abbey; Walden Priory [105 ...

  5. Elizabeth de Bohun, Countess of Northampton - Wikipedia

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    She left a will dated 31 May 1356, requesting burial at the priory. Mention of Elizabeth's burial is found in the records (written in Latin) of Walden Abbey which confirm that she was buried in Black Friars: Anno Domini MCCCIxx.obiit Willielmus de Boun, Comes Northamptoniae, cujus corpus sepelitur in paret boreali presbyterii nostri.

  6. Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex - Wikipedia

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    Geoffrey de Mandeville II, 1st Earl of Essex (died September 1144) was a prominent figure during the reign of King Stephen of England.His biographer, the 19th-century historian J. H. Round, called him "the most perfect and typical presentment of the feudal and anarchic spirit that stamps the reign of Stephen".

  7. Category:Benedictine monasteries in England - Wikipedia

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    Walden Abbey; Wallingford Priory; Wareham Priory; Warmington Priory; Weedon Beck Priory; Weedon Pinkney Priory; West Mersea Priory; Wherwell Abbey; Whitby Abbey; Wilton Abbey; Wimborne Minster (church) Winchcombe Abbey; Winchester Cathedral Priory; Wootton Wawen Priory; Worth Abbey; Wymondham Abbey

  8. Saving Walden Pond: How a treasured landmark is under threat

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    A half-an-hour drive from Boston, Massachusetts, in the town of Concord, sits one of the most revered literary landscapes in the world: the 2,680-acre Walden Woods and Walden Pond State Reservation.

  9. Rohese de Vere, Countess of Essex - Wikipedia

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    According to the Walden Chronicle, when the countess's eldest son, Geoffrey de Mandeville III, earl of Essex, died in 1166, his men decided to take his body for burial at Walden Priory in Essex, founded by his father. Countess Rohese was at Chicksands Priory when a member of the entourage escorting the earl's body arrived to inform her of her ...