Wiltshire notes and queries . HE remains of Henry II, with those of his queenEleanor of Aquitaine, and their son Richard Cceurde Lion, all within fifteen years (1189-1204) found aresting-place within the Abbey Church of FontEvrault. King John, by a charter dated from his. Notes on Amcsbury Monastery. 147 Henry III confirmed, by Charter, to the same Abbey thegift of the Church of St. Mary and Meliorus at Amesbury byhis grandfather Henry II, with all things pertaining theretowhether in spiritual or temporal possessions. At Amesburyhe founded an obit for the souls of his first cousins, PrinceArth


Wiltshire notes and queries . HE remains of Henry II, with those of his queenEleanor of Aquitaine, and their son Richard Cceurde Lion, all within fifteen years (1189-1204) found aresting-place within the Abbey Church of FontEvrault. King John, by a charter dated from his. Notes on Amcsbury Monastery. 147 Henry III confirmed, by Charter, to the same Abbey thegift of the Church of St. Mary and Meliorus at Amesbury byhis grandfather Henry II, with all things pertaining theretowhether in spiritual or temporal possessions. At Amesburyhe founded an obit for the souls of his first cousins, PrinceArthur and his sister Eleanor, the two children of Geoffrey,Earl of Bretagne (killed in a tournament at Paris in 11S9), aswell the souls of himself and his queen, when they Prince Arthur had been murdered at Rouen by hisuncle, King John, 1203, on account of his pretensions to theCrown, and his sister Eleanor confined in Bristol Castle bythe same monarch. On the death of the latter in 1240-41 shewas interred at Amesbury according to her own Tanner {Notitia Monastica, p. 479) mentions a PatentRoll of 25 Hen. Ill recording the removal of her body fromSt. James Priory of Benedictines at Bristol, to the Monasteryof Amesbury for 1 The


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