17 events with tag "monastic"
960
ID: 5849
Benedictine Reform begins - Dunstan as Archbishop, backed by Edgar, starts replacing secular clergy with monks
ID: 5849
964
ID: 5850
Aethelwold expels secular clergy from Winchester - forcibly replaces married priests with celibate monks, seizes property
ID: 5850
965
ID: 5851
Oswald reforms Worcester more gradually - uses persuasion rather than force to replace secular clergy with monks
ID: 5851
970
ID: 5852
Council of Winchester establishes Regularis Concordia - unified rule for English monasteries, monks control major churches
ID: 5852
973
ID: 5853
Edgar grants vast estates to reformed monasteries - transfers perhaps 1/3 of royal lands to monastic control
ID: 5853
976
ID: 5856
Edward the Martyr backs monks despite opposition - teenage king supports Dunstan and Aethelwold against powerful nobles
ID: 5856
984
ID: 5859
Death of Aethelwold weakens reform movement - last of the three great reformers, monastic influence wanes
ID: 5859
985
ID: 5860
Aethelred reconciles with Dunstan - performs penance for brother's murder, restores some monastic privileges
ID: 5860
986
ID: 5867
Aelfthryth founds Wherwell Abbey - queen mother becomes major monastic patron, possibly as penance for Edward's murder
ID: 5867
993
ID: 5869
Aethelred's charter of repentance - acknowledges wrongdoing against monasteries, restores seized lands, admits 'youthful ignorance'
ID: 5869
995
ID: 5861
Aelfric of Eynsham criticizes monastic corruption - even reformist monk admits monasteries have become too wealthy and worldly
ID: 5861
995
ID: 5870
Aethelred becomes generous monastic patron - grants extensive privileges to Abingdon Abbey, reverses anti-monastic stance
ID: 5870
997
ID: 5871
Aethelred's law codes protect monasteries - establishes penalties for violating monastic sanctuary and property
ID: 5871
1000
ID: 5873
November 1000
Death of Aelfthryth at Wherwell - dies at abbey she founded, remembered as both murderess and holy patron
ID: 5873
1005
ID: 5874
Monastic chroniclers remain critical - despite Aethelred's repentance, monks never forgive early anti-monastic stance
ID: 5874
1011
ID: 5862
Vikings target wealthy monasteries - Canterbury sacked, monasteries' vast wealth makes them prime targets
ID: 5862
1013
ID: 5863
Secular bishops dominate under late Aethelred - monastic reform effectively reversed, married clergy common again
ID: 5863