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	St Peter's Church - History
		The choice of saints for the window refers to St Albans Abbey, and the three pilgrim churches founded in 948 by Abbot Ulsinus — St Peter’s to the north, St Michael’s to the west, and St Stephen’s to the south —built on roads leading to the Abbey containing the shrine of the saint.
		The tomb of Abbot John with carvings of clusters of three wheat ears, his allusive heraldic badge, is in the south aisle of the Presbytery.
		Abbot Simon (1167-83) was informed, the remains were recovered and taken to the Abbey, with attendant miracles.
	www.stpeterschurch.uk.com /history (16012 words)

	St. Albans, Hertfordshire
		Matthew Paris—who was himself.a monk in the abbey of St Albans—says that Ulsinus, the sixth abbot, about 950, built a church on each of the three principal roads leading from the monastery, and that around these the present town of St Albans gradually arose.
		The church was chiefly built in 1077-93, by Abbot Paul of Caen, but was extended and altered at subsequent periods by other abbots; and it exhibits specimens of every style from the Saxon, through the Norman, to the Perpendicular of the time of Edward IV.
		St Stephen's Church was founded by Abbot Ulsinus in the 10th century, and portions of this building still remain along with work of the 13th, 15th, and 16th centuries.
	www.uk-genealogy.org.uk /england/Hertfordshire/places/StAlbans.html (1791 words)

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		According to the thirteenth century monk and chronicler Matthew Paris, the parishes of St Michael's, St Peter's and St Stephen's were created at the behest of Ulsinus, the sixth abbot of St Albans Abbey in AD948.
		The abbot also directed that a church be built in each parish.
		The Lady Chapel was constructed in 1220 during the rule of abbot William of Trumpington.
	www.groovygeezer.com /wedding/location.html (652 words)

	Abbot Suger - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Abbot Suger (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 1122 he was elected abbot of St Denis, Paris, and was counsellor to, and biographer of, Louis VI and Louis VII.
		He began the reconstruction of St Denis as the first large-scale Gothic building.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Abbot+Suger (105 words)

	St Michaels Parish - History
		St.Michael's Church pre-dates the Norman Conquest and, in common with the churches of St.Stephen and St.Peter was always said to have been founded by Ulsinus, Abbot of St Albans Abbey in 948AD.
		There is now some uncertainty about both the date and the Abbot, but there seems no need to doubt that the three churches were at about that time to receive pilgrims and to prepare them, for their visit to the shrine of St.Alban within the Abbey.
		The three churches, which still exist, stand on the three main roads into St Albans; and St Michael’s lies among the foundations of the old basilica (law-court) of Roman Verulamium, where Alban was condemned to die.
	www.stmichaels-parishchurch.org.uk /history.asp (964 words)

	St. Albans
		The church suffered considerably during the Parliamentary war from the prisoners confined in it, and from the rapacity or zeal of the parliamentary troops.
		The revenue of the abbey at the dissolution is estimated to have been £2,510 - a large income at that time.
		The abbot possessed also many privileges, and had a grant of precedence over all other abbots, from Pope Adrian IV (Nicholas Breakspeare), the only Englishman who ever sat in the chair of St. Peter.
	www.oldtowns.co.uk /Hertfordshire/stalbans.htm (1006 words)

	St Albans District Council - Tourism - History Of St Albans
		The Saxon settlement grew up around the precincts of the Monastery, founded in AD 900-950 by the Abbot Ulsinus, the acknowledged founder of St. Albans.
		It developed into a town of significance with a powerful Abbot and was one of the five chosen venues by the barons and clergy in 1213 for the drafting of Magna Carta.
		Until 1539 the town was dominated by the Abbot, but with the suppression of the church, the right to a Mayor was granted by a Charter of Edward VI in 1553.
	www.stalbans.gov.uk /tourism/history.htm (852 words)

	13th Century Doom Painting on Wood, ST MICHAEL’S CHURCH, ST ALBANS
		Michael, St Peter and St Stephen were built by abbot Ulsinus of St Albans [ca.
		It has been suggested that his headgear is the triple tiara of the Papacy but the Pope would not be shown so low in the hierarchy.
		By his position, below the Abbot of St Albans and above the King, he could be the Holy Roman Emperor.
	www.willpwr.demon.co.uk /St_Michaels_Doom (940 words)

	St Albans War Memorial
		Offa of Mercia about 793 founded a Saxon abbey church on the site of the earlier church, and St. Albans Church (designated a cathedral in 1877) was built, using Roman bricks from the ruins of Verulamium, in 1077 on the site of the church that Offa had built.
		The most celebrated Saxon abbot was Ulsinus, who in 948 founded three churches—St. Stephen's, St. Michael's, and St. Peter's—and who planned and laid out the town of St. Albans and founded the market, which is still held.
		As their power grew, the abbots obtained the right to destroy the Saxon royal borough of Kingsbury, on a neighbouring hilltop, and it finally disappeared in the reign of Stephen.
	www.stephen-stratford.co.uk /stalbans.htm (1655 words)

	St. Albans.
		The Norman Tower of the Abbey Cathedral is built mainly of Roman Brick scavenged from the ruins, and no doubt Roman stone and tile was used in the construction of other buildings in the area.
		A sizable settlement had grown up around the monastery founded by Abbot Ulsinus in AD 900-950.
		Conflict between the Abbot and the townsfolk had been growing and in 1381 St Albans played a major role in the Peasants Revolt.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /st_albans_herts/page1.html (385 words)

	The Boot
		In the Middle Ages the town was governed by the Abbot and most of the townspeople were his tenants.
		1) According to the Abbey Chronicles the seventh Abbot Wulsin (or Ulsinus) founded or enlarged the market and encouraged settlers.
		The date given for this activity is 948 although it is now generally considered that this abbots floruit was earlier, around A.D. The archaeological evidence suggests that the properties abutting on the market place were not laid out before the mid-12th century so that the ocation of the original market is uncertain.
	www.salbani.co.uk /Pubs/bootweb/the_boot.htm (1143 words)

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