Supervising the preliminary stages of the transformation of the college into a large and well-endowedīenedictine abbey. Invitation and spent some time ( plures dies) at Chester In 1092 Anselm answered Earl Hugh's third Wished to have an impressive religious house in theĬentre of his power, repeatedly sought the help of St.Īnselm in reforming the college of secular canons atĬhester. Of Chester, who was a noted monastic benefactor and Three holdings outside Chester, in Burwardsley, Stanney, and Hanbury, had been lost between 1066 andġ086 but the remaining 21 holdings, in Hoseley,Ĭheveley, Huntington, Middleton Grange, Saighton,īoughton, Iddinshall, Wervin, Croughton, Lea-byBackford, Sutton, Saughall, Shotwick, Neston, Raby,īridge Trafford, Ince, Pulford, Wepre and Lache, The custos or warden and the others by the canons. The church had 13 houses in Chester, one occupied by House with valuable ornaments nothing further is Of Worcester that Leofric, earl of Mercia, enriched the In Hoseley (Flints.), Cheveley, Huntington, Upton,Īston, and Barrow. 5) In that year Edgar, king of the Mercians, There is no definite evidence of the existence of aĬhurch of canons dedicated to St. Restored the city in 907, is the most likely, although Of the three rivalįounders Æthelflaed, who, with her husband Ethelred, Werburgh at Chester from the time of Athelstan Higden states that there were secular canons serving King Athelstan has also been credited with the foundation, since John's church ascribed the foundation of the house ofĬanons to Æthelflaed's nephew, Edmund. Werburgh and transferred the originalĭedication to a new parish church in the centre of theĬity, but Bradshaw also mentions that a tablet in St. Werburgh: according to Henryīradshaw, Æthelflaed, sister of Edward the Elder,Įnlarged the original church for secular canons in 4) There are further doubtful legends concerning the foundation at Chester of a church of secularĬanons dedicated to St. Werburgh ofĬhester in 1066 but had been lost to Henry de Ferrersīy 1086. 3) may have been acquired with HanburyĪnd its church, which belonged to St. Remains, which were at Chester before the end of theġ0th century, (fn. Paul andįounded 'soon after Lucius and afore KyngeĪrthure'. Hanbury in Staffordshire by nuns fleeing from theĭanes the shrine was received into the mother church Werburgh,ĭaughter of Wulfhere, king of Mercia (657-74), wasĬarried to Chester in 874 from its resting place at Werburgh, of the early 16th.Īccording to that tradition the body of St. Polychronicon, of the mid 14th century and Henryīradshaw's life of St. Writings of two monks of Chester: Ranulph Higden's Werburgh is a matter of 'legendĪnd guesswork'. The early history of the church of canons and Towards the transformation of a church of secularĬanons dedicated to St. In 1092 Hugh I, earl of Chester, took the first steps
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