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17 relations: Abbot, Dean of Westminster, Dissolution of the Monasteries, Gervase of Blois, Gilbert Crispin, Hugh Weston, John Feckenham, John Islip, Mary I of England, Richard Cox (bishop), Richard of Barking, Richard of Ware, Simon Langham, Thomas Thirlby, Vitalis of Bernay, Westminster Abbey, William Benson (abbot).
Abbot
Abbot, meaning father, is an ecclesiastical title given to the male head of a monastery in various traditions, including Christianity.
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Dean of Westminster
The Dean of Westminster is the head of the chapter at Westminster Abbey.
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Dissolution of the Monasteries
The Dissolution of the Monasteries, sometimes referred to as the Suppression of the Monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded monasteries, priories, convents and friaries in England and Wales and Ireland, appropriated their income, disposed of their assets, and provided for their former personnel and functions.
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Gervase of Blois
Gervase of Blois was the Abbot of Westminster in England between 1138 and 1157.
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Gilbert Crispin
Gilbert Crispin (1055 – 1117) was a Christian author and Anglo-Norman monk, appointed by Archbishop Lanfranc in 1085 to be the abbot, proctor and servant of Westminster Abbey, England.
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Hugh Weston
Hugh Weston (c.1505 – 1558) was an English churchman and academic, dean of Westminster and Dean of Windsor, and Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford.
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John Feckenham
John Feckenham (c. 1515 – October, 1584), also known as John Howman of Feckingham and later John de Feckenham or John Fecknam, was an English churchman, the last abbot of Westminster.
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John Islip
John Islip (1464Barbara F. Harvey and Henry Summerson,, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008–1532) was abbot of the monastery of Westminster, London, in Tudor times.
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Mary I of England
Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558) was the Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 until her death.
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Richard Cox (bishop)
Richard Cox (c. 1500 – 22 July 1581) was an English clergyman, who was Dean of Westminster and Bishop of Ely.
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Richard of Barking
Richard of Barking (died 1246) was an English Benedictine, the Abbot of Westminster, and a leading judge.
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Richard of Ware
Richard of Ware (died 8 December 1283) was the abbot of Westminster Abbey from 1258–1283.
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Simon Langham
Simon de Langham (1310 – 22 July 1376) was an English clergyman who was Archbishop of Canterbury and a cardinal.
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Thomas Thirlby
Thomas Thirlby (or Thirleby; –1570), was the first and only bishop of Westminster (1540–50), and afterwards successively bishop of Norwich (1550–54) and bishop of Ely (1554–59).
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Vitalis of Bernay
Vitalis of Creuilly or Vitalis of Bernay (died 19 June 1085) was a Benedictine monk from Normandy.
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Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster.
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William Benson (abbot)
William Benson (died 1549) was an English Benedictine, the last Abbot of Westminster and first Dean of Westminster.
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