The Abbot of Evesham was the head of Evesham Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in Worcestershire founded in the Anglo-Saxon era of English history. The succession continued until the dissolution of the monastery in 1540.
List
| Abbots of St Mary of Evesham | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| From | Until | Incumbent | Citation(s) | Notes |
| fl. 692–717 | Ecgwine | Founding abbot and saint | ||
| dates unclear | Æthelwold | First in Thomas of Marlborough's abbot list | ||
| dates unclear | Aldbore | Second in Thomas of Marlborough's abbot list | ||
| dates unclear | Aldbeorth | Third in Thomas of Marlborough's abbot list | ||
| dates unclear | Aldfrith | Fourth in Thomas of Marlborough's abbot list | ||
| dates unclear | Tilhberht | Fifth in Thomas of Marlborough's abbot list | ||
| dates unclear | Cuthwulf | Sixth in Thomas of Marlborough's abbot list | ||
| dates unclear | Aldmund | Seventh in Thomas of Marlborough's abbot list | ||
| dates unclear | Credan | Eighth in Thomas of Marlborough's abbot list | ||
| dates unclear | Thingfrith | Ninth in Thomas of Marlborough's abbot list | ||
| dates unclear | Aldbald | Tenth in Thomas of Marlborough's abbot list | ||
| dates unclear | Ecgberht | Eleventh in Thomas of Marlborough's abbot list | ||
| dates unclear | Ælfrith | Twelfth in Thomas of Marlborough's abbot list | ||
| dates unclear | Wulfweard | Thirteenth in Thomas of Marlborough's abbot list | ||
| dates unclear | Cynelm | Fourteenth in Thomas of Marlborough's abbot list | ||
| dates unclear | Cynath I | Fifteenth in Thomas of Marlborough's abbot list | ||
| dates unclear | Ebba | Sixteenth in Thomas of Marlborough's abbot list | ||
| dates unclear | Cynath II | Seventeenth in Thomas of Marlborough's abbot list | ||
| dates unclear | Edwine | Eighteenth in Thomas of Marlborough's abbot list | ||
| c. 970 | expelled 975 | Osweard | Abbey was secularised in 975, but afterwards went into the hands of one "Bishop Agelsius" (probably Æthelsige I, Bishop of Sherborne, resigned, translated or died 990 x 992), afterwards to Bishop Ælfstan (either Ælfstan, Bishop of Rochester (died 995), or Ælfstan, Bishop of London (died 995 x 996), after whose death Ealdwulf, Bishop of Worcester, established Ælfric and Ælfgar as abbots. | |
| 995 x 997 | unclear | Ælfric | ||
| 997 x 1002 | unclear | Ælfgar | ||
| dates unclear | Brihtmaer | |||
| unclear | c. 1013 | Ælthelwine | Became Bishop of Wells, c. 1013 | |
| c. 1014 | died 1044 | Ælfweard | Became Bishop of London c. 1016, but retained abbey of Evesham until death | |
| 1044 | resigned 1058 | Mannig (or Wulfmær) | Suffered paralysis and resigned 1058; died on epiphany, i.e. 6 January 1066 | |
| 1058 | died c. 1077 | Æthelwig | ||
| 1077 | died 1104 | Walter de Cerisy | ||
| unclear | died 1130 | Maurice | ||
| 1130 | died or resigned 1149 | Reginald Foliot | Uncle of Gilbert Foliot | |
| 1149 | died 1159 | William de Andeville | ||
| 1159 | 1160 | Roger | ||
| 1161 | died 1189 | Adam de Senlis | ||
| 1190 | resigned 1213 | Roger Norreis | Became Prior of Penwortham, an Evesham dependency | |
| 1214 | died 1229 | Randulf | Previously Prior of Worcester and Bishop-elect of Worcester | |
| 1230 | died 1236 | Thomas of Marlborough | ||
| 1236 | died 1242 | Richard le Gras | Was elected Bishop of Coventry in 1241, but either declined office or died before this disputed election was resolved | |
| 1243 | died or resigned 1255 | Thomas of Gloucester | ||
| 1256 | died 1263 | Henry of Worcester | ||
| 1263 | died or resigned 1266 | William of Malborough | ||
| 1266 | died 1282 | William of Whitechurch | ||
| 1282 | died 1316 | John of Brockhampton | ||
| 1316 | died 1344 | William de Chiriton | ||
| 1345 | died 1367 | William du Boys | ||
| 1367 | died 1379 | John of Ombersley | ||
| 1379 | 1418 | Roger Zatton | ||
| 1418 | 1435 | Richard Bromsgrove | ||
| 1435 | c. 1460 | John Wykewan | ||
| 1460 | 1467 | Richard Pembroke | ||
| 1467 | 1477 | Richard Hawkesbury | ||
| 1477 | 1483 | William Upton | ||
| 1483 | 1491 | John Norton | ||
| 1491 | 1514 | Thomas Newbold | ||
| 1514 | 1539 | Clement Litchfield, Lychfeld or Wych | Died October 1546, buried in the southern chapel (built at his expense) of All Saints, Evesham | |
| 1539 | 1540 | Philip Hawford (or Ballard) | ||
Notes
References
- Knowles, David; Brooke, C. N. L.; London, C. M, eds. (2001), The Heads of Religious Houses : England and Wales. 1, 940—1216 (2nd ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-80452-3
- Lapidge, Michael (2004), "Ecgwine (d. 717?), bishop of Worcester", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, retrieved 30 March 2009
- Page, William; Willis-Bund, J. W., eds. (1971), "Houses of Benedictine monks: Abbey of Evesham", A History of the County of Worcester: Volume 2 (1971), British History Online, pp. 112–27, retrieved 30 March 2009
- Smith, David M.; London, C. M, eds. (2001), The Heads of Religious Houses : England and Wales. 2, 1216–1377, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-80271-7