| Name
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Dates
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Works
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Notes
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| Sexwulf
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c. 654–
c. 676
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Founder. Bishop of Mercia c. 676–?x692.
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| Cuthbald
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c. 676
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| Egbald
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before 716
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| Pusa
|
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| Botwine
|
?x765–
779x?
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| Beonna
|
?x789–
805x?
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| Ceolred
|
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| Hedda
|
870
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| Ealdwulf
|
972-992
|
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Archbishop of York, 995–1002.
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| Cenwulf
|
992-1006
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Built wall around the abbey.
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Bishop of Winchester, 1006.
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| Ælfsige
|
1006–1042
|
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Accompanied Æthelred the Unready and Emma to Normandy in 1013.
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| Earnwig
|
1042–1052
|
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A "very good man and very sincere", he "resigned although still in good health".
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| Leofric
|
1057–1066
|
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Endowed the monastery "so that it became known as 'Golden Borough'".
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| Brand
|
1066–1069
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| Turold of Fécamp [fr]
|
1069–1098
|
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Viewed the abbey as a source of personal wealth for himself and his associates with his enfeoffments accounting for 46% of the abbey's property.
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| Godric
|
4 days in 1099
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| Matthias
|
1103–1104
|
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| Ernulf
|
1107–1114
|
Began a building campaign.
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Bishop of Rochester, 1115. He was influential in restoring the abbey's finances.
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| John de Séez
|
1114–1125
|
Continued the building work and, though in 1116 a great fire caused considerable damage, rebuilding began in 1117.
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| Abbey held by King Henry I
|
1125–1127
|
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| Henry de Angeli
|
1128–1133
|
Did nothing towards the rebuilding.
|
He wasted the goods of the abbey and was banished.
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| Martin de Bec
|
1133–1155
|
Continued construction works.
|
Formerly a monk of Bec and prior of St Neots.
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| William of Waterville
|
1155–1175
|
|
Deposed
|
| Benedict
|
1177–1194
|
|
Chronicler.
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| Andrew
|
1194–1199
|
West front.
|
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| Acharius
|
1200–1210
|
West front.
|
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| Robert of Lindsey
|
1214–1222
|
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| Alexander of Holderness
|
1222–1226
|
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| Martin of Ramsey
|
1226–1233
|
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| Walter of Bury St. Edmunds
|
1233–1245
|
Abbot at the time of the building's final completion through the solemn dedication of the church on 6, October 1238.
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| William of Hotoft
|
1246–1249
|
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| John de Caux
|
1250–1262
|
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| Robert of Sutton
|
1262–1273
|
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| Richard of London
|
1274–1295
|
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| William of Woodford
|
1295–1299
|
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| Godfrey of Crowland
|
1299–1321
|
A chapel of St Thomas of Canterbury was built between the church and the Lady Chapel.
|
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| Adam of Boothby
|
1321–1338
|
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| Henry of Morcott
|
1338–1353
|
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| Robert of Ramsey
|
1353–1361
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| Henry of Overton
|
1361–1391
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| Nicholas of Elmstow
|
1391–1396
|
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| William Genge
|
1397–1408
|
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| John Deeping
|
1409–1439
|
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| Richard Ashton
|
1439–1471
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| William Ramsey
|
1471–1496
|
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| Robert Kirton
|
1496–1528
|
The latest part of the church, and the only ever enlargement of the eastern arm, the square ended building at the east known as "the new building".
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| John Chambers
|
1528–1539
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Rewarded for complicity during the Dissolution with being made first bishop of Peterborough - care for the former abbey church, which became the bishop's cathedral, passed to the dean of Peterborough.
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