Charter of Æthelred the Unready to Burton Abbey, confirmation of the will of Wulfric Spot, AD 1004[1]
Burton Abbey at Burton upon Trent in Staffordshire, England, was founded in the 7th or 9th century by St Modwen or Modwenna. It was refounded in 1003 as a Benedictine abbey by the thegn Wulfric Spott. He was known to have been buried in the abbey cloister in 1010, alongside the grave of his wife.
BurtonAbbey at Burton upon Trent in Staffordshire, England, was founded in the 7th or 9th century by St Modwen or Modwenna. It was refounded in 1003 as...
to the Peak District National Park. Burton is known for its brewing. The town grew up around BurtonAbbey. Burton Bridge was also the site of two battles...
Abbey Ling (née Burton; born 30 March 1987 in High Wycombe) is a British sports shooter from Nynehead, Somerset. She married fellow Team GB sports shooter...
Æthelred the Unready. Wulfric was a patron of the BurtonAbbey, around which the modern town of Burton on Trent later grew up, and may have refounded the...
Modwenna, or Modwen, was a nun and saint in England, who founded BurtonAbbey in Staffordshire in the 7th century. According to the medieval Life of St...
England. A chronicle of its history was written by Thomas Burton, one of the abbots. The abbey owned the land of Wyke, which was purchased from it by King...
of Stretton-on-Dunsmore in Warwickshire to BurtonAbbey. He granted the tithes from his demesne at Burton on Trent to the monks of Léhon in Brittany,...
The Abbot of Burton was the head of BurtonAbbey, the Benedictine monastery of St Mary and St Modwenna at Burton-upon-Trent in Staffordshire, England...
and it was occupied by the de Scobenhal family before being donated to BurtonAbbey. The house was used as a place of convalescence for monks recovering...
broom'. The prefix 'abbots' was added because the village was held by BurtonAbbey. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,779. Abbots...
this to be Old Burton', he remarked approvingly. 'Sensible Mole! The very thing!" Like most mediaeval religious houses, BurtonAbbey, established early...
then spelt Cotes. The book says under the title of “The lands of the Abbey of Burton": "In Coton in the Elms Ælfgar had two carucates of land to the geld...
circumstances elsewhere. The abbey was the second greatest monastic land owner in the county, after Burton-on-Trent Abbey. There were more difficulties...
place. Other contemporary accounts include the Annals of Waverley and of BurtonAbbey. A Jew, Copin, reportedly confessed to the murder. He was also offered...
In his will, which survives, he endowed much of his land to re-found BurtonAbbey. Another son, Ælfhelm, was made ealdorman of Northumbria, in practice...
Penkridge. The overlord was BurtonAbbey, which had received the land from Wulfric Spot in 1044. It was held from the abbey by a succession of families...
appears to occur in CE1004 in the will of Wulfric Spott, the founder of BurtonAbbey. Amongst his bequests was 'Aelfredingtune', or 'Alfred's farmstead',...
lords of the manor. Some manors belonged to Staffordshire monasteries. BurtonAbbey held Pillaton, Bickford and Whiston, and also, for a time, Gailey, which...
Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London, England...
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