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CHAPTER I. surveys the arrival and spread of two great religious movements in England during the reign of Henry I: the Austin (Augustinian) canons regular, and the Cistercian monks.…
Austin Canons in England Under Henry I
The Austin canons, as they were commonly called, made their way across the Channel at the beginning of Henry I’s reign.…
The Priory of Holy Trinity, Aldgate
In 1108 Queen Matilda—the “Maude the good queen” of grateful tradition—founded the order’s first English priory in the soke of Aldgate, just within the eastern wall of London.…
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Some fifteen years after the Aldgate foundation, Rahere, the king’s minstrel, gave up his post at court to become the head of an Austin priory which he built on waste marshy groun…
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