List of Abbots of Westminster
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| Edwin | 1049 – c. 1071 |
| Geoffrey of Jumièges | c. 1071 – c. 1075 |
| Vitalis of Bernay | c. 1076 – 1085 |
| Gilbert Crispin Gilbert Crispin Gilbert Crispin was a Christian author and Anglo-Norman monk, appointed by Archbishop Lanfranc in 1085 to be the abbot, proctor and servant of Westminster Abbey, England... |
1085 – 1117 |
| Herbert | 1121 – c. 1136 |
| Gervase de Blois | 1138 – c. 1157 |
| Laurence | c. 1158 – 1173 |
| Walter of Winchester | 1175 – 1190 |
| William Postard | 1191 – 1200 |
| Ralph de Arundel (alias Papillon) | 1200 – 1214 |
| William de Humez | 1214 – 1222 |
| Richard de Berkying | 1222 – 1246 |
| Richard de Crokesley | 1246 – 1258 |
| Phillip de Lewisham | 1258 |
| Richard de Ware | 1258 – 1283 |
| Walter de Wenlok | 1283 – 1307 |
| Richard de Kedyngton (alias Sudbury) | 1308 – 1315 |
| William de Curtlyngton | 1315 – 1333 |
| Thomas de Henley | 1333 – 1344 |
| Simon de Bircheston | 1344 – 1349 |
| Simon Langham | 1349 – 1362 |
| Nicholas de Litlyngton | 1362 – 1386 |
| William de Colchester | 1386 – 1420 |
| Richard Harweden | 1420 – 1440 |
| Edmund Kyrton | 1440 – 1462 |
| George Norwich | 1463 – 1469 |
| Thomas Millyng | 1469 – 1474 |
| John Esteney | 1474 – 1498 |
| George Fascet | 1498 – 1500 |
| John Islip John Islip John Islip was abbot of the monastery of Westminster, London, in Tudor times.-Biography:Islip was doubtless a member of the family which rose to ecclesiastical importance in the person of Archbishop Simon Islip... |
1500 – 1532 |
| William Benson William Benson (abbot) William Benson was an English Benedictine, the last Abbot of Westminster and first Dean of Westminster. He was a friend of Thomas Cranmer, and belonged to the evangelical circle around Cranmer that included Thomas Goodrich, Hugh Latimer and Thomas Thirlby.-Life:A native of Boston, Lincolnshire,... (Abbot Boston) |
1533 – 1540 |
| Bishop intra- Reformation Dissolution of the Monasteries The Dissolution of the Monasteries, sometimes referred to as the Suppression of the Monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded monasteries, priories, convents and friaries in England, Wales and Ireland; appropriated their... |
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| Thomas Thirlby Thomas Thirlby Thomas Thirlby was an English bishop. While he acquiesced in the Henrician schism, with its rejection in principle of the Roman papacy, he remained otherwise loyal to the doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church during the English Reformation.... |
1540 – 1550 |
| Deans intra- Reformation Dissolution of the Monasteries The Dissolution of the Monasteries, sometimes referred to as the Suppression of the Monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded monasteries, priories, convents and friaries in England, Wales and Ireland; appropriated their... |
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| William Benson William Benson (abbot) William Benson was an English Benedictine, the last Abbot of Westminster and first Dean of Westminster. He was a friend of Thomas Cranmer, and belonged to the evangelical circle around Cranmer that included Thomas Goodrich, Hugh Latimer and Thomas Thirlby.-Life:A native of Boston, Lincolnshire,... (Abbot Boston) |
1540 – 1549 |
| Richard Cox Richard Cox (bishop) Richard Cox was an English clergyman, who was Dean of Westminster and Bishop of Ely.-Biography:Cox was born of obscure parentage at Whaddon, Buckinghamshire, in 1499 or 1500.... |
1549 – 1553 |
| Hugh Weston Hugh Weston Hugh Weston was an English churchman and academic, dean of Westminster and Dean of Windsor, and Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford.-Life:... |
1553 – 1556 |
| Abbot restored by Mary I of England Mary I of England Mary I was queen regnant of England and Ireland from July 1553 until her death.She was the only surviving child born of the ill-fated marriage of Henry VIII and his first wife Catherine of Aragon. Her younger half-brother, Edward VI, succeeded Henry in 1547... |
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| John Feckenham John Feckenham John Feckenham , also known as John Howman of Feckingham and later John de Feckenham or John Fecknam, was an English churchman, the last abbot of Westminster.-Under Henry VIII and Edward VI:... |
1556 – 1559 |
| Deans post- Reformation Dissolution of the Monasteries The Dissolution of the Monasteries, sometimes referred to as the Suppression of the Monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded monasteries, priories, convents and friaries in England, Wales and Ireland; appropriated their... |
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| Deans | 1560 – present |