Fécamp Abbey
The Abbey of the Holy Trinity at Fécamp, commonly known as Fécamp Abbey (
.The abbey is known as the first producer of bénédictine, a herbal liqueur based on brandy.[1]
First foundation
Around 658,
Second foundation
In the 990s
The remains of the two kings were moved several times and reburied in several places, finally being placed in lead boxes and reburied again in the southern transept in 1956. In February 2016, French, Danish and Norwegian researchers opened the lead boxes in order to conduct DNA analysis of the remains. Radiocarbon dating of the remains showed that neither skeleton could be that of Richard I or Richard II. One skeleton dated from the third century BCE, the other from the eighth century CE, both long before the lifetimes of Richard I and Richard II.[6]
Saint William is buried in one of the northern chapels.
Mid-eleventh century
The abbey at Fécamp was critical in the
A nearby port with land around
This gained him a ship from the abbey and, upon his victory at Hastings, he made good his promise and returned Steyning to the abbey, with whom it remained until the 15th century.
The charter acquitted the grantees of all earthly service and subjection to barons, princes, and others, and gave them all royal liberties, custom, and justice over all matters arising in their land; and threatened any who should infringe these liberties with an amercement of £100 in gold.[8]
They moved the remains of the local saint,
Church architecture
The abbey church dedicated to the
See also
Notes
- ^ Liqueurs, M. Luisa Gonzalez-Sanjose, The Oxford Handbook of Food Fermentations, ed. Charles W. Bamforth, Robert E. Ward, (Oxford University Press, 2014), 331.
- ^ Antoine Roux de Lincy: Essai historique et littéraire sur l'Abbaye de Fécamp. Édouard Frère, Rouen 1840 (online version)
- ^ R. Allen Brown, The Normans and the Norman Conquest, (The Boydell Press, 1994), 21-22.
- ^ Emma Mason, Westminster Abbey and Its People, C.1050-c.1216, (The Boydell Press, 1996), 14.
- ^ Lindy Grant, Architecture and Society in Normandy 1120-1270, (Yale University Press, 2005), 76.
- ^ "Mystery Of Viking Ruler Rollo Continues – Surprising Discovery In Ancient Grave". MessageToEagle.com. January 2017.
- ^ "Steyning: The Confessor's Gift and the Conqueror's Oath". Steyning Museum. June 2005. Retrieved 2008-01-03.
- ^ Davis, H. W. C. (1913). H. A. Cronne; R. H. C. Davis (eds.). Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum 1066-1154. Vol. I. Oxford.
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