Clear Frames
ARMORICA is the name given in ancient times to the part of Gaul that includes the Brittany peninsula and the territory between the Seine and Loire rivers, extending inland to an indeterminate point and down the Atlantic coast. It is based on the Gaulish phrase "are mori" "on/at [the] sea", made into the Gaulish place name Aremorica 'Place by the Sea'. Pliny the Elder, in his Natural History (2.17.105), claims that Armorica was the older name for Aquitania, stating Armorica's southern boundary extended to the Pyrénées. Whether the churches of Galatia to which Paul wrote an important epistle about 50 AD were situated in the Celtic northern area or in the southern cities of that wide province is still one unsettled in the New Testament. Under the Roman Empire, Armorica was administered as part of the province of Gallia Lugdunensis, which had its capital in Lyons. The Roman Scillonia insula islands may correspond to the Cassiterides ("Tin Isles") visited by the Phoenicians and mentioned by the Greeks. The Isles of Scilly form an archipelago of five inhabited islands and numerous other small rocky islets off Land's End.
BARNSTAPLE In the yeare 930 A.D. Barnstaple was a typical Saxon Stronghold, King Alfred created Beardestaple the town a Burg or Borough. King Athelstan established a mint at Barnstaple with rights of Market and Fair who founded the ancient Priory at Pilton. King William held the Borough of Barnstaple for himself and it was not until Henry 1 came to the throne that the first Lord of Barnstaple, Judhael of Totnes, was created. It was this Judhael who, in 1107, founded the Priory of St. Mary Magdalene outside the town wall. In 1206 people aquired their charter of independence from King John, and sent their first MP to Parliament in 1295.
BLACK TORRINGTON HUNDRED Wyke St. Pancras parish in the hundred of Black Torrington, Holsworthy, Morwenstowe, is near the river Tamar and Stratton in Cornwall in the Ruby country with manors Dexbeer, Hudson, Dunsdon, Hamsworthy adjoined by Bathe. An earlier name of the place may have been 'Pancoard's or Pinkard's specialised-farm' from the continental Germanic personal name. Another Pyworthy (St. Swithun) is a benefince of Pancrasweek and Bridgerule. Buckland Filleigh is to South Buckland these between Black Torrington and Shebbear hundred such as Monkokehampton and Monkleigh; Buckland in the Moor or a Buckland Monachorum as carrying Roborough and Egg Buckland.
BODMIN lies in the centre of Cornwall, along the western edge of Bodmin Moor, the granite moorland in northeastern Cornwall. On the southern slopes of the moor lies Dozmary Pool, where, according to Arthurian legend, Sir Bedivere threw Excalibur to The Lady of the Lake. St. Petroc founded a priory here in the 6th century; he gave the alternate name to Bodmin which is Petrockstow. It is clear that this pan-Celtic saint, whose cult is very widely spread both in Wales and in Brittany, was the apostle for the whole Kingdom of Dumnonia.
BRADWORTHY, Holsworthy is one of the best examples of a Saxon village in the Westcountry. Shortly after the Saxon conquest of North Devon, probably about 700 AD, centre of an extensive territory including what is now the parish of Pancrasweek was with seven other farms present within the parish which were Saxon manors recorded in the Domesday Book. The South Hams area is close to the sea with the Slapton Sands, towns of Kingsbridge, Totnes, Dartmouth and Salcombe, manor farm of Keynedon Barton. It is recorded in the Domesday Book and has been a working farm for over a thousand years.
BYLAND & THE SAVIGNIAC ORDER According to the foundation story, a group of monks from Savigny, Normandy, led by Peter de Quinciacus, wished to establish a house in Yorkshire along Cistercian lines. The THE SAVIGNIAC ORDER had its origins in 1105 when Vitalis of Mortain established a hermitage in the forest of Savigny. The community later followed the Benedictine Rule, wore grey habits and founded daughter-houses. By 1147 the Order was experiencing financial and administrative problems, prompting the head of the Savigniacs, Abbot Serlo of Savigny, to approach the General Chapter of Cîteaux in 1147, seeking the absorption of his congregation. His request was accepted and this brought fourteen houses in England and Wales within the Cistercian family.
CHESTER In the early 8th century Bede called Chester (le Street) a city (civitas) and clearly knew of it as a Roman place, he said nothing about later activity there. The history of medieval Chester can be said to begin only in 907 with the refortification of the site by the ruler of Mercia, King Alfred's daughter Æthelflæd. The background to that event was the establishment of a Hiberno-Norse community in Wirral after its expulsion from Dublin in 902. It is not easy to ascribe territories to 10th-century ealdormen, but it seems that already in the 930s one of the districts ruled by such an official was north-west Mercia, the principal settlement in which was Chester. Late Anglo-Saxon Chester was in the hands of three lords, king, earl, and bishop. Gruffydd ap Cynan (c.1055–1137) was a King of Gwynedd. Gruffydd made his first attempt to take over the rule of Gwynedd in 1075, following the death of Bleddyn ap Cynfyn. By 1066 Chester was a prosperous town with a population of perhaps 2,500-3,000.. Trade between Chester and Dublin was not all one way. The large number of 10th-century coin hoards from Ireland and western Britain, in which Chesterminted coins from Handbridge were very prominent, points to a considerable outflow of silver from Chester. The Normans brought many changes to the religious life of the city, of which the most dramatic was the transfer of the north-west Mercian see in 1075 from Lichfield to St. John's.
CORNWALL (ARMORICA) There was a tribe called the Dumnonii, who inhabited most of south west Britain including Cornwall. Cornish started to evolve as a separate language around 2000 BC. The Celtic languages are split into two groups: Brythonic - Cornish, Welsh and Breton form this group with common roots; and Goidelic- Irish, Manx and Scots Gaelic form this second group. The Celts of Somerset, Dorset, Devon and Cornwall became separated from the Celts of Wales after the Battle of Deorham in about 577. From the west, Saxon Exeter was reached when the Celts separated and Exeter was held by the disliking of the Cornish Dumnonian kingdom as a conversion of Wessex. ARMORICA is the name given in ancient times to the part of Gaul that includes the Brittany peninsula and the territory between the Seine and Loire rivers, extending inland to an indeterminate point and down the Atlantic coast. It is based on the Gaulish phrase "are mori" "on/at [the] sea", made into the Gaulish place name Aremorica 'Place by the Sea'.CORTON DENHAM Corton village lies in the centre of the valley. From there, at Staffords (Stovard) Green and the hamlet Holway and Yeovil sands- limestone beds. The ancient parish measured 1,371 a. South of Corton village from the north-south routes from South Cadbury, two east-west routes continued into Rimpton. Several of the parishes later to be part of Horethorne hundred in Somerset had originally been part of the 7th-century estate of Lanprobi (Sherborne, Dors.) which before the 10th century had been resumed by the kings of Wessex for their military retainers.