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Wilton Abbey

Wilton Abbey is a Benedictine convent in Wiltshire, England, three miles from Salisbury. A first foundation was made as a college of secular priests by Earl Wulstan of Wiltshire, about 773, but was after his death (800) changed into a convent for twelve nuns by his widow, Saint Alburga, sister of King Egbert. Owing to the consent given by this king he is counted as the first founder of this monastery. Saint Alburga herself joined the community, and died at Wilton. King Alfred, after his temporary success against the Danes at Wilton in 871, founded a new convent on the site of the royal palace and united to it the older foundation. The community was to number 26 nuns. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wikisource, The Free Library, is a Wikimedia project to build a free wiki library of primary source texts, along with translations of source-texts into any language and other supporting materials. ... ... This article is about an abbey as a religious building. ... Wiltshire (abbreviated Wilts) is a large southern English county. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (mid-2004) - Density Ranked 1st UK 50. ... Salisbury Cathedral from the Cathedral Yard High Street Market Great West Front of Salisbury Cathedral Salisbury (pronounced Solsbree or Sauls-bree) is a small cathedral city in Wiltshire, England. ... An Earl as a member of the British peerage ranks below a Marquess and above a Viscount. ... Events Charlemagne crosses the Alps and invades the kingdom of the Lombards. ... Events December 25, Rome, coronation of Charles the Great (Charlemagne) as emperor by Pope Leo III. Celtic monks begin work on the Book of Kells on the Island of Iona. ... Alburga (d 810) was a member of the royal house of Wessex, abbess of Wilton and a saint. ... Egbert (also Ecgberht or Ecgbert) (c. ... Alfred (849? – 26 October 899) (sometimes spelt Ælfred) was king of England from 871 to 899, though at no time did he rule over the whole of the land. ...

Wilton is best known as the home of Saint Edith, the child of a "handfast" union between Edgar, King of the English (944-75), and Wulfrid or Wulfthryth, a lady wearing the veil though not a nun, whom he carried off from Wilton, probably in 961. After Edith's birth, Wulfrid refused to enter into a permanent marriage with Edgar and retired with her child to Wilton. Edith, who appears to have been learned, received the veil while a child, at the hands of Bishop Æthelwold of Winchester, and at the age of fifteen refused the abbacy of three houses offered by her father. She built the Church of Saint Denis at Wilton, which was consecrated by Saint Dunstan, and died shortly afterwards at the age of twenty-three (984). Her feast is on 16 September. EDGAR, the Electronic Data-Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, performs automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC). Not all documents filed with the SEC by public... Location within the British Isles Winchester Cathedral as seen from Cathedral Close Arms of Winchester City Council King Arthurs Round Table Winchester is a city in southern England, with a population of around 35,000. ... Saint Denis, also known as Denys, Dionysius, or Dennis is a Christian saint, bishop of Paris, martyr, and a patron saint of France. ... Dunstan is also a village in Northumberland, and a lake in New Zealand Dunstan shoeing the Devils hoof, as illustrated by George Cruikshank Dunstan (909–May 19, 988) was an Archbishop of Canterbury (961–980) who was later canonized as a saint. ... September 16 is the 259th day of the year (260th in leap years). ...

Saint Edith became the chief patron of Wilton, and is sometimes said to have been abbess. In 1003 Sweyn, King of Denmark, destroyed the town of Wilton but we do not know whether the abbey shared its fate. Edith of Wessex, the wife of Edward the Confessor, who had been educated at Wilton, rebuilt the abbey in stone; it had formerly been of wood. Events Sweyn I of Denmark begins his first invasion of England. ... Svend I Forkbeard (Svend Otto Haraldsen; Danish: Svend Tveskæg, originally Tjugeskæg or Tyvskæg, Norwegian: Svein Tjugeskjegg) (c. ... Church of St Mary and St Nicholas, Wilton Wilton is a town in Wiltshire, England, with a rich heritage dating back to the Anglo-Saxons. ... Edith of Wessex, (c. ... Edward the Confessor or Edward III (c. ...

In 1143 King Stephen made it his headquarters, but was put to flight by Matilda's forces under Robert of Gloucester. The Abbess of Wilton held an entire barony from the king, a privilege shared by only three other English nunneries, Shaftesbury, Barking, and St. Mary, Winchester. Cecily Bodenham, the last abbess, surrendered her convent on 25 March 1539. The site was granted to Sir William Herbert, afterwards Earl of Pembroke, who commenced the building of Wilton House, still the abode of his descendants. There are no remains of the ancient buildings. Events Celestine II is elected pope. ... Stephen (1096 - October 25, 1154), the last Norman King of England, reigned from 1135 to 1154, when he was succeeded by his cousin (or, as the gossip of the time had it, his natural son) Henry II, the first of the Angevin or Plantagenet Kings. ... Matilda (sometimes spelled Mathilda) is a female name, of Teutonic derivation, meaning mighty warrior. ... Robert of Gloucester also frequently refers to Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester (~1090 - October 31, 1147) Robert of Gloucester wrote a chronicle of British, English, and Norman history sometime in the mid or late thirteenth century. ... Location within the British Isles For other uses, see Shaftesbury (disambiguation) Shaftesbury is a town in North Dorset, England, situated on the A30 road near the Wiltshire border 20 miles west of Salisbury. ... Barking is the principal town in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. ... March 25 is the 84th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (85th in leap years). ... Events May 30 - In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal to find gold. ... William Herbert, 1st earl of Pembroke was born c. ... The Earldom of Pembroke, associated with Pembroke Castle in Wales, was created by King Stephen of England. ... Jones and de Causs South Front and the Palladian Bridge (1736/7), in a view of circa 1820 Wilton House is an English country house situated at Wilton near Salisbury in Wiltshire. ...

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