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Bungay
Bungay () is a market town, civil parish and electoral ward in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk, England.OS Explorer Map OL40: The Broads: (1:25 000) : . It lies in the Waveney Valley, west of Beccles on the edge of The Broads, and at the neck of a meander of the River Waveney. In 2011 it had a population of 5,127. History The origin of the name of Bungay is thought to derive from the Anglo-Saxon title ''Bunincga-haye'', signifying the land belonging to the tribe of Bonna, a Saxon chieftain. Due to its high position, protected by the River Waveney and marshes, the site was in a good defensive position and attracted settlers from early times. Roman artefacts have been found in the region. Bungay Castle, which is shown on Bungay's town sign, was originally built by the Normans but was later rebuilt by Roger Bigod, 5th Earl of Norfolk and his family, who also owned Framlingham Castle. The castle contains a unique surviving example of mining galleries, dating to the sie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Mary's Church, Bungay
St Mary's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the town of Bungay, Suffolk, England. The church and the ruins of the adjacent priory are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and are under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. The church stands in the centre of the town on St Mary's Street, the A144 road. History St Mary's was built as the church to a Benedictine priory. This was established in the late 12th century, but the main part of the present church dates from the 14th–15th century. The Domesday Survey records a church dedicated to the Holy Cross in the town, and it is thought that St Mary's stands on the site of an earlier Saxon church. The priory was closed in 1536 as a result of the dissolution of the monasteries, St Mary's became a parish church, and a grammar school was established in one of the priory's chapels. In 1577 the church was struck by lightning, and this event led to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bungay Castle
Bungay Castle is a Grade I listed building in the town of Bungay, Suffolk.Historic England, Bungay Castle list entry no. 1034404 (listed 9 May 1949). Retrieved 12 May 2022. History The site was originally a Norman castle built by Roger Bigod in about 1100 to take advantage of the natural protection provided by a curve in the .Adrian Pettifer,[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friar Bacon And Friar Bungay
''Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay'', originally entitled ''The Honorable Historie of Frier Bacon and Frier Bongay'', is an Elizabethan era stage play, a comedy written by Robert Greene. Widely regarded as Greene's best and most significant play, it has received more critical attention than any other of Greene's dramas. History The date of authorship of ''Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay'' cannot be fixed with certainty on the basis of the available evidence; the play is normally dated to the 1588–92 period. 1589 may be the single most likely year: a line in the play's opening scene, "Next Friday is S. James", fixes St. James's Day (25 July, the feast day of St. James the Great) as a Friday, which was true in 1589. Some critics argue that the magic in Greene's play was inspired by the magic in Marlowe's '' Doctor Faustus,'' (''c.'' 1589–92) which if valid would mean that ''Bacon and Bungay'' must post-date ''Faustus;'' Greene's play also has relationships with several other play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Waveney
The River Waveney is a river which forms the boundary between Suffolk and Norfolk, England, for much of its length within The Broads. The earliest attestation of the name is from 1275, ''Wahenhe'', from ''*wagen + ea'', meaning the river by a quagmire. Course The source of the River Waveney is a ditch on the east side of the B1113 road between the villages of Redgrave, Suffolk and South Lopham, Norfolk. The ditch on the other side of the road is the source of the River Little Ouse which continues the county boundary and, via the Great Ouse, reaches the sea at King's Lynn. It is thus claimed that during periods of heavy rainfall Norfolk can be considered to be an island. The explanation of this oddity is that the valley in which the rivers rise was formed not by these rivers, but by water spilling from the periglacial lake known as Lake Fenland. This was a periglacial lake of the Devensian glacial period, fifteen or twenty thousand years ago. The ice sheet closed the natural drai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bungay Priory
Bungay Priory was a Benedictine nunnery in the town of Bungay in the England, English county of Suffolk. It was founded c. 1160-1185 by the Countess Gundred, Countess of Norfolk, Gundreda, wife or widow of Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk, upon lands of her ''Frank-marriage, maritagium'' and was confirmed to her and her second husband Roger de Glanville by King Henry II. It was dissolved in about 1536. At the time of the suppression it consisted of a prioress and 11 nuns. The priory church, the Church of the Holy Cross, became the St Mary's Church, Bungay, Church of St Mary, the parish church in Bungay.Church of St Mary (including Ruins of Benedictine Convent), Bungay British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 2011-04-30. Although ruins of the prio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Bungay
Thomas Bungay ( or '; ),. also known as (; ) and formerly also known as , was an Kingdom of England, English Franciscan friar, scholar, and alchemist. Life Thomas was born in Bungay, a market town in Suffolk. He was educated at Oxford University, Oxford and University of Paris, Paris in the mid-13th century and, at an unknown date, entered the Order of the Friars Minor (Franciscans) at Norwich. He lectured as the 10th Franciscan "Reader in Divinity" at Oxford, certainly in the years 1270–72, before leaving to serve as the 8th Minister Provincial of the Franciscans in England during the years 1272–75. (He was succeeded at Oxford by John Peckham.) From around 1275 to at least 1283,. he served as the 15th Franciscan master at Cambridge University, Cambridge. He wrote ', a commentary on Gerard of Cremona, Gerard's edition of Aristotle's work ''On the Heavens''.Cambridge Gonville & Caius MS 509 (XIII), f. 208–252. Other questions are attributed to him in MS Assisi 158, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon (; or ', also '' Rogerus''; ), also known by the Scholastic accolades, scholastic accolade ''Doctor Mirabilis'', was a medieval English polymath, philosopher, scientist, theologian and Franciscans, Franciscan friar who placed considerable emphasis on the study of nature through empiricism. Intertwining his Catholic faith with scientific thinking, Roger Bacon is considered one of the greatest polymaths of the Medieval Period, medieval period. In the Early modern period, early modern era, he was regarded as a Wizard (paranormal), wizard and particularly famed for the story of his History of robots, mechanical or necromancy, necromantic brazen head. He is credited as one of the earliest European advocates of the modern scientific method, along with his teacher Robert Grosseteste. Bacon applied the empirical method of Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) to observations in texts attributed to Aristotle. Bacon discovered the importance of empirical testing when the results he obt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beccles
Beccles ( ) is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the East Suffolk District, East Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England.OS Explorer Map OL40: The Broads: (1:25 000) : . The town is located along the A145 road, A145 and A12 road (Great Britain), A12 roads, situated south-east of Norwich and north-northeast of Ipswich. Nearby towns include Lowestoft to the east and Great Yarmouth to the north-east. The town lies on the River Waveney on the edge of The Broads, The Broads National Park. It had a population at the 2011 census of 10,123. Worlingham is a suburb of Beccles; the combined population is 13,868. Beccles Town twinning, twinned with Petit-Couronne in France in 1978. History The place-name 'Beccles' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as ‘Becles’, located in the ancient Hundred_(county_division), hundred of Wangford Hundred, Wangford. It appears as ‘Beacles’ circa 1095 in a document from Bury St Ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Framlingham Castle
Framlingham Castle is a castle in the market town of Framlingham, Suffolk, England. An early motte and bailey or ringwork Norman castle was built on the Framlingham site by 1148, but this was destroyed (Slighting, slighted) by Henry II of England in the aftermath of the Revolt of 1173–1174. Its replacement, constructed by Roger Bigod, 2nd Earl of Norfolk, Roger Bigod, the Earl of Norfolk, was unusual for the time in having no central keep, but instead using a Curtain wall (fortification), curtain wall with thirteen mural towers to defend the centre of the castle. Despite this, the castle was successfully taken by King John of England, John in 1216 after a short siege. By the end of the 13th century, Framlingham had become a luxurious home, surrounded by extensive medieval deer park, parkland used for hunting. During the 15th and 16th centuries Framlingham was at the heart of the estates of the powerful House of Mowbray, Mowbray and House of Howard, Howard families. Two artifi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Greene (dramatist)
Robert Greene (1558–1592) was an English author popular in his day, and now best known for a posthumous pamphlet attributed to him, '' Greene's Groats-Worth of Witte, bought with a million of Repentance'', widely believed to contain an attack on William Shakespeare. Greene was a popular Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer known for his negative critiques of his colleagues. He is said to have been born in Norwich. He attended Cambridge where he received a BA in 1580, and an M.A. in 1583 before moving to London, where he arguably became the first professional author in England. He was prolific and published in many genres including romances, plays and autobiography. Family According to the author Brenda Richardson, the "chief problem" in compiling a biography of Robert Greene was his name. ''Robert'' was one of the most popular given names of the era and ''Greene'' was a common surname. L. H. Newcomb suggests that Robert Greene "was probably the Robert Greene, son of Robert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gundred, Countess Of Norfolk
Gundred de BeaumontRosie Bevan (2005)"The Durham ''Liber Vitae'': Some Reflections on Its significance as a Genealogical Source" ''Foundations'' 1(6): 414–424. (died 1200×1206) was an Anglo-Norman noblewoman and the founder of Bungay Priory. She was a daughter of Roger de Beaumont, Earl of Warwick, and his wife, Gundred de Warenne. Her first husband was Hugh Bigod, Earl of Norfolk (died 1177), and her second Roger de Glanvill, brother of the Chief Justiciar Ranulf de Glanvill. In the Curia Regis Rolls, she is always referred to as 'Countess Gundred'.S. J. Bailey (1948), "The Countess Gundred's Lands", ''The Cambridge Law Journal'' 10(1): 84–103. First marriage Gundred married Hugh after his first marriage was annulled, sometime before 1160. She founded the nunnery at Bungay around that time with lands from her '' maritagium'', including five churches at Bungay, Metingham and Ilketelshale. Gundred and Hugh had two sons, Hugh and William.Marc Morris, ''The Bigod Earls of No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waveney Valley (UK Parliament Constituency)
Waveney Valley is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament, created following the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies. Since its first election in 2024, it has been represented by Adrian Ramsay of the Green Party and is the first Green seat in the East of England. Boundaries The constituency straddles the River Waveney between Norfolk and Suffolk and is composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020): * The District of East Suffolk wards of: Bungay & Wainford; Halesworth & Blything. * The District of Mid Suffolk wards of: Bacton; Eye; Fressingfield; Gislingham; Haughley, Stowupland & Wetherden; Hoxne & Worlingworth; Mendlesham; Palgrave; Rickinghall; Stradbroke & Laxfield; Walsham-le-Willows. * The District of South Norfolk wards of: Beck Vale, Dickleburgh & Scole; Bressingham & Burston; Bunwell; Diss & Roydon; Ditchingham & Earsham; Harleston. It covers the following areas: * Areas to the north of the river, including Diss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
