1100AD =kilburn priory. A hermit named Godwin built a cell near a little rivalet called Kilburn.
ll00AD =Aug 15th, Ralph Flambard, Bishop of Durham sent to the Tower.
1100AD =A Priory in the parish of Shoreditch was founded. It became a resort of prelates and great people. It continued to 1539AD. It was known as Holliwell or Holywell Priory.
1100AD =The Priory of the Knights of St. John was founded by Jordan Briset, Baron, and his wife Muriel, near "Clarke�s Well." (Now Clerkwell)during the period of the 1st. crusade.
1101AD =Feb. 4th, Flambard made his keepers drunk, and obtaining a rope in a flagon, he let himself down from the south gallery, taking his pastoral staff with him. The rope broke, and he was injured in falling, but managed to escape to Normandy.
1101AD =Henry strengthened the Tower of London.
1107AD =Summer; 60 ships and 7,000 to 8,000 men under the command of 17year old King Sigurd left Norway on a westerly course. In England as a guest of Henry I, Sigurd doubled his forces and sailed on to the Holy Land. When he landed two years later, he had fought 8 battles in the Mediterranian. He consolidated the Christian power in Palestine by teaming up with Baldwin of Boulogne, ruler of Jerusalem, and defeating Sidon, the prime ememy. After the Crusade, Sigurd gave his fleet to Emperor Alexius of Constantinople, who furnished Sigurd and his men with Horses and Equipment to get home.
1108AD =Gundulf, Bishop of Rochester dies.
1111AD =Birth of Henry; Duke of Normandy to Geoffrey Plantagenet. In 1135 his right to the throne appeared beyond dispute.
1122AD =Rahere died and was buried in a tomb in the Priory of Bartholemew.
1122AD =Thomas, a canon of the Church of St. Osyth, succeeded Rahere as prior of Bartholemews.
1122AD =Birth of Eleanor of Aquitane to William, Duke of Aguitaine.
1128AD =Godwin granted his hermatage, with the adjoining lands, to the conventual Church of St. Peter, Westminster, "as an alms for the redemption of the whole convent of Brethren," under the same conditions and privileges which King Ethelred had granted Hamsteade to the same Church. Soon after they were assigned at Godwins request to three Virgins, by name of Emma, Griselda, and Christina, who were maids of honour to Matilda(Maud), Henry I�s queen. She was a Benedictine Nun. Godwin was appointed Master of the Nunnery, and guardian of the maidens, as long as he should live.
1128AD =The head of the Knights Templars arrived in London to explain its objectives. Hugh de Payens, After speaking with Henry I, he returned to Jerusalem with 300 men, mostly from the noblest families of England and France. After starting out as an order so poor in Jerusalem they all of a sudden waxed so insolent, that they disdained other orders, "and sorted themselves with noblemen." Hugh placed a Knight Templar, called the Prior of the Temple, at the head of the society in England, to manage the estates and affairs of the Order. Chief Templar site was in Holburn, where Southampton House was afterwards erected. It had a circular chapel.
1128AD =1st banner of the Crusaders was half black, half white. White, typifing fairness to friends, black, terror to foes. It was called, �Beauseant.�
1135AD =December 1st. Death of Henry I at Normandy.
1135AD = Just before Henry I�s death all the English Lords had given him their Holy Oaths that they would accept his Daughter Matilda as regent until the boy Henry came of age. No sooner did he die than the English Aristocracy threw their support to Stephan, nephew of Henry I and made him King. London forced Matilda out of the city and she and Henry fled to Normandy.
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