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Walden Abbey

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claimed that Countess Rohese turned him against Walden. On his death in 1189, the monastery was again left without a clear patron for a number of years. The earldom of Essex eventually passed to the husband of a distant cousin of earl William,
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and could not be buried at the priory. Walden suffered without a clear patron through the rest of Stephen's reign. Even when
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Late Medieval Monasteries and Their Patrons: England and Wales, c. 1300-1540,
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were slightly better, although the member of the community who wrote the
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there. The current Jacobean mansion was built for his grandson,
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in the later Middle Ages, and thus passed to the crown in 1399.
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and his wife, Arabella Astry Howard (in the Howard Vault)
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Soon after its founding, Earl Geoffrey was arrested by
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The abbey eventually came under the patronage of the
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Walden's relations with Geoffrey's brother and heir
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Burials at the Abbey (some in the priory preceding)
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Index


Audley End House
Saint Mary
Saint James
Order
Benedictine
Roman Catholicism
Diocese
London
St Mary the Virgin, Saffron Walden
Romanesque
Gothic
Saffron Walden
Essex
United Kingdom

Saffron Walden
Essex
England
Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex
priory
abbey
King Stephen
excommunicated
Geoffrey de Mandeville, 2nd Earl of Essex
King Henry II
Rohese de Vere, Countess of Essex
Chicksands
William de Mandeville, 3rd Earl of Essex
Geoffrey fitz Peter

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