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Newminster Abbey
Newminster Abbey was a Cistercian abbey in Northumberland in the north of England. The site is protected by Grade II listed building and Scheduled Ancient Monument status. Ranulph de Merlay, lord of Morpeth, and his wife, Juliana, daughter of Gospatric II, Earl of Lothian, founded the abbey in 1137 and Saint Robert of Newminster from the Cistercian Fountains Abbey was appointed as the first abbot; he governed from 1138 to 1159. The year after its foundation, the abbey (at that time only a group of timber buildings) was burned in an attack by Scottish raiders. The abbey construction resumed and in 1159 Abbot Robert died and was buried beneath the high altar. His tomb became a shrine and place of pilgrimage, and a number of miracles were ascribed to him so that eventually he was canonised. The abbey was located a short distance to the west of Morpeth, on the boundary between the lands of Ranulph de Merlay and Bertram of Mitford. Both these minor barons, and also D'Umfrav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert De Umfraville
Sir Robert de Umfraville Order of the Garter, KG, Lord of Redesdale ( 1363 – 1437) was a knight in England in the Late Middle Ages, late-medieval England who took part in the later stages of the Hundred Years' War, particularly against Kingdom of Scotland, Scotland. The Umfraville, de Umfraville family had been influential in north of England, northeast England for centuries and also held major estates in Yorkshire. His ancestors were mormaers of Angus, and his nephew married into the House of Percy, Percies, a powerful local Scottish Marches, marcher family with whom de Umfraville was closely associated. Much of Sir Robert's career continued on the same path as his ancestors, being primarily focused on defending the Anglo-Scottish border, border with Scotland, which had been in a state of near-permanent warfare since the late thirteenth century. Robert de Umfraville fought under three English kings. Beginning his career under Richard II of England, Richard II, he probably fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newminster Abbey 3 - Geograph
Newminster may refer to *Newminster (horse), the 1851 St. Leger winning racehorse *New Minster, Winchester *Newminster Abbey Newminster Abbey was a Cistercian abbey in Northumberland in the north of England. The site is protected by Grade II listed building and Scheduled Ancient Monument status. Ranulph de Merlay, lord of Morpeth, and his wife, Juliana, daughter ..., Northumberland, United Kingdom * a British tanker in service 1952-54 * Robert of Newminster, Roman Catholic Saint {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cistercian Monasteries In England
The Cistercians (), officially the Order of Cistercians (, abbreviated as OCist or SOCist), are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of Saint Benedict, as well as the contributions of the highly influential Bernard of Clairvaux, known as the Latin Rule. They are also known as Bernardines, after Saint Bernard, or as White Monks, in reference to the colour of their cowl, as opposed to the black cowl worn by Benedictines. The term ''Cistercian'' derives from ''Cistercium,'' the Latin name for the locale of Cîteaux, near Dijon in eastern France. It was here that a group of Benedictine monks from the monastery of Molesme founded Cîteaux Abbey in 1098. The first three abbots were Robert of Molesme, Alberic of Cîteaux and Stephen Harding. Bernard helped launch a new era when he entered the monastery in the early 1110s with 30 companions. By the end of the 12th century, the order had spread throughout most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Township (England)
In England, a township (Latin: ''villa'') is a local division or district of a large parish containing a village or small town usually having its own church. A township may or may not be coterminous with a chapelry, manor, or any other minor area of local administration. The township is distinguished from the following: * Vill: traditionally, among legal historians, a ''vill'' referred to the tract of land of a rural community, whereas ''township'' was used when referring to the tax and legal administration of that community. *Chapelry: the 'parish' of a chapel (a church without full parochial functions). * Tithing: the basic unit of the medieval Frankpledge system. 'Township' is, however, sometimes used loosely for any of the above. History In many areas of England, the basic unit of civil administration was the parish, generally identical with the ecclesiastical parish. However, in some cases, particularly in Northern England, there was a lesser unit called a township, being ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Vision Of Britain Through Time
The Great Britain Historical GIS (or GBHGIS) is a spatially enabled database that documents and visualises the changing human geography of the British Isles, although is primarily focussed on the subdivisions of the United Kingdom mainly over the 200 years since the first census in 1801. The project is currently based at the University of Portsmouth, and is the provider of the website ''A Vision of Britain through Time''. NB: A "GIS" is a geographic information system, which combines map information with statistical data to produce a visual picture of the iterations or popularity of a particular set of statistics, overlaid on a map of the geographic area of interest. Original GB Historical GIS (1994–99) The first version of the GB Historical GIS was developed at Queen Mary, University of London between 1994 and 1999, although it was originally conceived simply as a mapping extension to the existing Labour Markets Database (LMDB). The system included digital boundaries for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civil Parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, which for centuries were the principal unit of secular and religious administration in most of England and Wales. Civil and religious parishes were formally split into two types in the 19th century and are now entirely separate. Civil parishes in their modern form came into being through the Local Government Act 1894 ( 56 & 57 Vict. c. 73), which established elected parish councils to take on the secular functions of the parish vestry. A civil parish can range in size from a sparsely populated rural area with fewer than a hundred inhabitants, to a large town with a population in excess of 100,000. This scope is similar to that of municipalities in continental Europe, such as the communes of France. However, unlike their continental Euro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph De Greystoke, 3rd Baron Greystoke
Ralph de Greystoke, 3rd Baron Greystoke, (18 October 1353 – 6 April 1418) was an English peer and landowner. Life Greystoke was the son of William de Greystoke, 2nd Baron Greystoke, and Joane, daughter of Lord Fitzhugh, his second wife. He was born on 18 October 1353 at Ravensworth Castle, North Yorkshire, the home of his maternal uncle Henry. As he was still a child when his father died, his estates were placed under the guardianship of Roger de Clifford, 5th Baron de Clifford. He was summoned to Parliament between 28 November 1375 and 5 October 1417, and, in the 1370s and 1380s, served as a warden of the Scottish Marches. In 1384, he led an English force that was defeated by the Scots, under the command of George I, Earl of March, while they were travelling to Roxburgh. Greystoke was captured and taken to Dunbar Castle, where he was provided with a meal in the great hall, served upon his own dining-ware, which had been seized from his baggage train along with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert De Umfraville, Earl Of Angus
Robert de Umfraville, 8th Earl of Angus, of Prudhoe, Chollerton, Harbottle, and Whelpington, Northumberland ( 1277 – 1325) was an Anglo-Norman baron in Northumberland and the eighth Earl of Angus. Life Robert was the second son of Gilbert de Umfraville and Elizabeth Comyn, daughter of Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan. Umfraville was more than thirty years old at his father's death. Umfraville adhered to King Edward II of England both against Scots and barons, and was regularly summoned to the English parliaments as Earl of Angus (although in name only- the title had ceased to have any meaning whatsoever since the outbreak of the 1296 First War of Scottish Independence). He was summoned to the coronation of King Edward II of England in February 1308. He was Joint Lieutenant and Guardian of Scotland from 21 June 1308, and appointed to treat for peace with the Scots on numerous occasions. He fought at the Battle of Bannockburn, and was taken prisoner after the battle by Robert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph De Greystoke, 1st Baron Greystoke
Ralph de Greystoke, 1st Baron Greystoke, (15 August 1299 – 14 July 1323) was an peerage of England, English peer and landed gentry, landowner. Descent and title Greystoke was the son of Robert fitz Ralph (heir and second son of Ralph Fitzwilliam) and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Neville of Scotton, Lincolnshire. Ralph Fitzwilliam descended from a family seated at (and named for) Grimthorpe, near Pocklington in the Yorkshire Wolds. The Greystoke family, though taking their name from estates in Cumberland, possessed large Yorkshire holdings centred at Nunburnholme, also near Pocklington: John Baron de Greystok, following the failure of his marriage and issue, granted his estates in fee simple to his cousin Ralph, Baron Fitzwilliam, son of his aunt Joan de Greystok, in 1297–1298, but continued to hold them for his lifetime. On John's death in 1306 the entire barony reverted to Fitzwilliam as feudal lord, who was sometimes called Lord of Greystoke. William, Robert fit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waters & Robson
Waters & Robson was a British manufacturer of bottled water and soft drinks. History Waters & Robson was established in 1910 in Morpeth, Northumberland by Stephen Waters and Thomas Robson as a soft drinks manufacturer. Robson named the source of the water Abbey Well, after his favourite nearby 12th century Cistercian Abbey, Newminster Abbey. At its source Abbey Well filters through the area's white sandstone. In the 1980s Thomas' grandson Tony Robson was now heading the company and decided to move into bottled water, and the current Abbey Well water brand was created. In 1981 a new bottling site was built in Morpeth. The company uses a 117-metre deep artesian well for its still water. As of 2008 the company had 91 employees, produced 30 million litres of water annually and had a turnover of £11 million. Acquisition by Coca-Cola In 2008 the company was acquired by Coca-Cola Enterprises. Its Morpeth site is still used by Coca-Cola European Partners today for Abbey Well as we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
