Prioresses of Kirklees
From International Robin Hood Bibliography
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2015-09-01. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-06-06.
According to the Gest of Robyn Hode and Robin Hood's Death, a prioress of Kirklees and her illicit lover were responsible for Robin Hood's death. The prioress is not given a name in either tale, and it is quite uncertain if their authors had a specific historical prioress in mind. Nonetheless I intend to compile a list of prioresses. References will be added as I come across them. However, unless major new discoveries are made the list will remain quite incomplete. Kirklees Priory was dissolved on 24 November 1539.[1]
Prioresses of Kirklees
- 13th cent. Elizabeth de Staynton; said to be the first prioress.[2]
- 1306.10.04–?1307.01.14. Margaret de Clayworth.[2]
- 1307.01.15[2]– after 1331.04.05. Alice de Scriven[3]
- 15th cent. (before Cecilia Hill, next). ?Margaret Seyvill, daughter of Sir John Seyvill.[2]
- 14??–91. Cecilia Hill or Hiks.[2]
- 1491–1499 or earlier. Joanna Stansfeld.[4]
- 1499.04.24–1505.03.09 or earlier. Margaret Tarlton.[4]
- 1505.03.10–-15??. Margaret Fletcher.[5]
- 1527.07.09–1538.05.13 or later Cecilia Topcliffe.[6]
- 1538.05.14 or later–1539.11.24. Joan Kyppes, Keps, Kepax or Kepast. The last prioress of Kirklees.[7]
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Notes
- ↑ Armytage, George John 1881a; see p. 75 n. 1; Armytage, George John. 'Account of Excavations at Kirklees Priory, Yorks.', Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Second Series, vol. XXI (1906-1907), pp. 175-86 [+2 pp. plates]; see p. 176.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Chadwick, S. J. 'Kirklees Nunnery', Yorkshire Notes and Queries, vol. I (1888), pp. 82-94, 97-105; see p. 85.
- ↑ See Lister, John, ed.; [Stokes, Ethel, transcr.] Court Rolls of the Manor of Wakefield, vol. III (Yorkshire Archæological Society, Record Series, vol. LVII (1917), pp. 147 (25 July 1316), 154 (August 1316); Walker, J.W., ed.; [Stokes, Ethel, transcr.], Court Rolls of the Manor of Wakefield. Vol. V. 1322-1331 (Yorkshire Archæological Society, Record Series, vol. CIX) (1945), pp. 173 (12 March 1331), 174 (5 April 1331). Scriven ís a village just north of Knaresborough, in North Yorkshire (formerly in the North Riding of Yorkshire).
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Chadwick (1888), pp. 85-86.
- ↑ Chadwick (1888), p. 86.
- ↑ Clay, John William, ed. Yorkshire Monasteries: Suppression Papers (The Yorkshire Archæological Society, Record Series, vol. XLVIII) ([s.l.], 1912), p. 127. Also see Chadwick (1888), p. 86.
- ↑ Clay, p. 127. Also see Armytage (1906), p. 180; Chadwick (1888), p. 86.