Chertsey Abbey, dedicated to St Peter, was a Benedictine monastery located at Chertsey in the English county of Surrey.[1][2]
It was founded in 666 AD by Saint Erkenwald who was the first abbot, and from 675 AD the Bishop of London. At the same time he founded the abbey at Chertsey, Erkenwald founded Barking Abbey on the Thames east of London, where his sister Saint Ethelburga was the first abbess.
The Founder, St Erkenwald, depicted in a state at St Albans Cathedral
In the 9th century it was sacked by the Danes and refounded from Abingdon Abbey by King Edgar of England in 964. In the eleventh century the monks engineered the Abbey River as an offshoot of the River Thames to supply power to the abbey's watermill. In late medieval times, the Abbey became famous as the burial place of King Henry VI (whose body was later transferred to St George's Chapel, Windsor). The abbey was dissolved by the commissioners of King Henry VIII in 1537, but the community moved to Bisham.
ChertseyAbbey, dedicated to St Peter, was a Benedictine monastery located at Chertsey in the English county of Surrey. It was founded in 666 AD by Saint...
Chertsey is a town in the Borough of Runnymede, Surrey, England, 18 miles (29 km) south-west of central London. It grew up around ChertseyAbbey, founded...
First settled in the Bronze Age, the town was under the control of ChertseyAbbey for much of the Middle Ages. In 1215, Magna Carta was sealed by King...
1471, possibly killed on the orders of King Edward. He was buried at ChertseyAbbey before being moved to Windsor Castle in 1484. Miracles were attributed...
period and beyond was ChertseyAbbey, founded in 666. At this point Surrey was evidently under Kentish domination, as the abbey was founded under the...
Peter's Church, Chertsey (England), cast in 1670 by Bryan(?) Eldridge of Chertsey (maybe in itself a recasting of an earlier ChertseyAbbey bell), was recast...
During the Anglo-Saxon and medieval periods, Weybridge was held by ChertseyAbbey. In 2011 it had a population of 15,449. In the 1530s, Henry VIII constructed...
Tooting and Streatham (then Toting-cum-Stretham) was given to the Abbey of Chertsey. Later, Suene (Sweyn), believed to be a Viking, may have been given...
Peter's, Chertsey. It was cast circa 1310 and re-cast circa 1380 for ChertseyAbbey by the Wokingham founders who were linked to the Abbey. On the dissolution...
be consistent with a planned, medieval settlement. Epsom was held by ChertseyAbbey from Anglo-Saxon times until the first half of the 16th century. The...
manor house seized along with all the other manors of Chertsey from ChertseyAbbey, a very rich abbey, under Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries...
The Abbey River is a right-bank backwater of the River Thames in England, in Chertsey, Surrey — in the town's northern green and blue buffers. The L-shaped...
what is now Surrey, England. Egham, Thorpe, Chertsey and Chobham are all mentioned in the ChertseyAbbey charter of 673 AD due to a donation by Frithuwold...
ferry used to run. Tenth century charters, see ChertseyAbbey (which long owned the lands surrounding its Abbey across the Thames) record the village/parish...
remained part of the ChertseyAbbey estates. As across the whole hundred which he dominated, the power of the Abbot of Chertsey was considerable. When...
die at the abbey in 693, although his body was taken to ChertseyAbbey for burial. Saint Wulfhilda (Wlfhildis) became abbess of Barking Abbey during the...
There was a Tristan who bore witness to a legal document at the Swabian Abbey of Saint Gall in 807. The philologist Sigmund Eisner came to the conclusion...
Lincolnshire. In 666, he established two Benedictine abbeys, ChertseyAbbey in Surrey for men, and Barking Abbey for women. His sister, Æthelburh, was Abbess...
of Bosworth Field in 1485, but had the body of Henry VI moved from ChertseyAbbey in Surrey to the castle to allow it to be visited by pilgrims more easily...
Surrey. Chertsey Bridge crosses the river 210 metres below Chertsey Lock. The right bank weir pool at the top of the reach becomes the Abbey River, nearly...
venerated as saints at Ramsey Abbey in Huntingdonshire. A charter records Ecgberht's patronage of the monastery at ChertseyAbbey in Surrey. Ecgberht was succeeded...
is mentioned in the Charters of ChertseyAbbey in 727, which mentions Cheam being given to the monastery of Chertsey in 675; the name appears as Cegeham...
Streatham and Tooting Graveney was granted by Erkenwald and Frithwald to ChertseyAbbey, a grant which was later confirmed in the time of Athelstan in 933....
water-meadow and former water-meadow between the River Thames and Abbey River in the far north of Chertsey in Surrey. Its uses are varied. Part is Laleham Golf Club...
Anglo-Saxon abbot, establishes the Benedictine abbeys, ChertseyAbbey (Surrey) for men and Barking Abbey (now in east London) for women. Zhang Jiazhen...
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