The greater abbeys of England, with illustrations in colour after Warwick Goble (1908)
Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · New York ; Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 300
t, Earl of Ew, to whom the Con-queror had granted the land in this part which hecould obtain by his victories over the Welsh. Walterde Clares son, Gilbert Stronbow, became the first Earlof Pembroke, and when he came to die in 1148, as agenerous benefactor he was buried in the church atTintern. His… … Tintern founded, and that a cross-legged effigy of a knight inchain armour still to be seen in the ruins is his monu-ment. The monks to colonise Tintern came from theabbey of Aumone, in the diocese of Chartres. Thismonastery had itself been begun only ten years before,but had increased sufficiently…
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