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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Premonstratensian is in Religious Buildings by Order.
Alnwick Abbey, Northumberland [Map] was a Premonstratensian Abbey founded in 1147 by Eustace fitz John as a daughter house of Newhouse Abbey in Lincolnshire. It was disolved in 1535, refounded in 1536 and finally suppressed in 1539.
Barlings Abbey [Map] was a was a Premonstratensian monastery in England, founded in 1154, as a daughter house of the Abbey of St. Mary and St. Martial in Newsham.
Langley Abbey [Map] was a Premonstratensian Abbey founded in 1195.
Around 1199 Shap Abbey [Map] was built at its present site. It was a religious house of the Premonstratensian Order. It had been founded on another site twenty miles south of Kendal in 1190.
Halesowen Abbey, Shropshire [Map] was a Premonstratensian Abbey founded by Bishop Peter de Roches in 1218.
