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  Gearalt Gilbertine - 7th Sea Wiki
Gilbertine is the oldest son of an adventurer and sea captain.
Gilbertine himself spent most of his time in the care of scholars and nursemaids while his father ran around and garnered wealth.
Gilbertine examined the torc and bracelet, and judged them to be from Bryn Bresail, and confirmed that the mirror in the window is likely to be from the same set of items.
www.confusticate.com /7thsea/wiki/index.php/Gearalt_Gilbertine   (741 words)

  
  Gilbertine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The habit of the Gilbertine canons consisted of a fl tunic reaching to the ankles, covered with a white cloak and hood, which were lined with lamb's wool.
A Gilbertine monastery had only one church: this was divided unevenly by a wall, the main part of the building being for the nuns, the lesser part, to the south, for the monks.
A Gilbertine monastery had only one church: this was divided unevenly by a wall, the main part of the building being for the nuns, the lesser part, to the south, for the canons.
idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /WestCivI/gilbertines.htm   (1425 words)

  
 Channel 4 - Time Team
Gilbertines, as featured in the 2002 series Chicksands programme, were a bit different and actually started in England.
And it was at Watton that one of the greatest – and most gruesome – of Gilbertine scandals occurred: the case of the nun of Watton.
But the nun is reported to have been shackled and kept imprisoned until one day she supposedly had a vision from the Archbishop of York, who spirited away the result of her pregnancy and miraculously caused the chains and fetters on her legs and arms to drop away.
www.channel4.com /history/microsites/T/timeteam/snapshot_gilbertine.html   (613 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Gilbertine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The habit of the Gilbertine canons consisted of a fl tunic reaching to the ankles, covered with a white cloak and hood, which were lined with lamb's wool.
Gilbertines, as featured in the 2002 series Chicksands programme, were a bit different and actually started in England.
But the nun is reported to have been shackled and kept imprisoned until one day she supposedly had a vision from the Archbishop of York, who spirited away the result of her pregnancy and miraculously caused the chains and fetters on her legs and arms to drop away.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gilbertine   (512 words)

  
 Robert Mannyng - LoveToKnow 1911
from Bourne was the Gilbertine monastery of Sempringham, founded by Sir Gilbert de Sempringham in 1139.
He says he was at Cambridge with Robert de Bruce and his two brothers, Thomas and Alexander, but this does not necessarily imply that he was a fellow-student.
There was a Gilbertine monastery at Cambridge, and Mannyng may have been there on business connected with his order.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Robert_Mannyng   (933 words)

  
 Double Houses (Post - Conquest) - 3 General Description
In a reversal of the usual arrangements the parish was associated with the east end of the church, probably the north transept, and the nave served conventual purposes (Andrews 1981, Fig 3).
The church was transected laterally, in contrast to the longitudinal division of the Gilbertine churches.
At Gilbertine double houses the nuns' cloister was normally abutting the main conventual church, so that nuns would have direct access to their aisle in the church.
www.eng-h.gov.uk /mpp/mcd/sub/dblh3.htm   (2812 words)

  
 Gilbertine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
By the time of the dissolution, there were 26 houses of Gilbertines, but only four were ranked as greater houses with incomes of over £200 a year.
The Gilbertine legacy remains quite small; only 15 extant manuscripts are associated with the order, attached to 5 of the 25 Gilbertine houses.
Four additional works ascribed to Gilbertine members, but not surviving in Gilbertine copies, include the vita of Gilbert of Sempringham, the Gilbertine Rule, the so-called 'Sempringham Continuation' to Le Livere de Reis Engleterre, and the works of Robert Mannyng.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gilbertine   (744 words)

  
 Houses of Gilbertine canons: Priory of Marmont | British History Online
Citation: 'Houses of Gilbertine canons: Priory of Marmont', A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 2 (1948), pp.
On the night of the saint's death it is recorded that Maud de Hauvill dreamt that she saw a great company of angels bearing the souls of three of the blessed to heaven, of whom one exceeded the others in glory, and that he was Master Gilbert of Sempringham.
The commissioners appointed in 1536 to survey the religious houses were instructed, if there were any Gilbertine houses in their county, 'to order the governors to appear before the Chancellor of the Augmentations at Westminster to learn the King's pleasure'.
www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=40005   (870 words)

  
 Cherveaux: Palace of Light
Sharing borders with Romina, Valentia and Gilbertine she also has access to the Heilio Sea to the SE and Arvet Channel to the north.
The political relations of Gilbertine are complicated in the extreme, and fluctuate constantly.
Gilbertine Mixed Valentia allies itself freely to any Prince embrassing the Universal Church and will happily offer financial support to those that will wage war on those that favour the Brace Faith.
www.angelfire.com /crazy4/practise/world.html   (2022 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Order of Gilbertines
Each Gilbertine house now practically consisted of four communities, one of nuns, one of
Priory who had been sent there to be brought up by the nuns; the second was an open revolt, for a time successful, of some of the lay brothers at Sempringham.
All the Gilbertine houses were situated in England, except two which were in Westmeath, Ireland.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/06556b.htm   (981 words)

  
 House of the Gilbertine order: The priory of Clattercote | British History Online
Citation: 'House of the Gilbertine order: The priory of Clattercote', A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 2 (1907), p.
At Clattercote, six miles north of Banbury, there was a house of the Gilbertine Order, originally a hospital for lepers.
In 1291 the possessions of the priory, that are enumerated, are all in the immediate neighbourhood, the land in Fenney Compton being three carucates (fn.
www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=40193   (614 words)

  
 Cherveaux: Palace of Light
Sharing borders with Romina, Valentia and Gilbertine she also has access to the Heilio Sea to the SE and Arvet Channel to the north.
Matters regarding the external politics of Gilbertine are governed by the Council of Eleven.
The political relations of Gilbertine are complicated in the extreme, and fluctuate constantly.
www.palaceoflight.com /v2/world.html   (2118 words)

  
 Gilbertine Order
The Gilbertine Order was founded around 1130 by St Gilbert in Sempringham, Lincolnshire, where he was a parish priest.
The Gilbertine legacy remains quite small; only 15 extant manuscripts are associated with the order, attached to five of the Gilbertine houses.
Four additional works ascribed to Gilbertine members, but not surviving in Gilbertine copies, include the Vita of Gilbert of Sempringham, the Gilbertine Rule, the so-called 'Sempringham Continuation' to Le Livere de Reis Engleterre, and the works of Robert Mannyng.
www.dejavu.org /cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=93&url=http%3A%2F%2Farticles.gourt.com%2F%3Farticle%3DGilbertine%26type%3Den   (784 words)

  
 Gilbertine Renewal of the Ancient Observance
The Gilbertine Renewal of the Ancient Observance is a project of Cloister Outreach.
The original Canons and Nuns of the Gilbertine Order were founded c.1100 by St. Gilbert of Sempringham.
The Gilbertines wore a fl tunic adapted from the Augustinians, and the white cloak of the Cistercians.
cloisters.tripod.com /gilbertinerenewal   (541 words)

  
 Oxford University Press   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Contemporary monastic reformers responded to his demand in various ways: some focused their appeal on women, others actively discouraged all contact; but all were agreed on the need to regularise religious life for women.
The Gilbertines were the only native monastic order in medieval England, and were highly unusual in their provision for both nuns and canons.
His detailed analysis of the economy of the Gilbertines reveals much about monastic revenue and organization, and about the order's relations with their lay patrons and benefactors.
www.oup.com /isbn/0-19-820060-9?view=in   (469 words)

  
 Cistercian life > Women > Nuns
It is not, as was once thought, simply a case of defining communities as Benedictine, Augustinian, Cistercian or Gilbertine.
Contemporaries were frequently confused as to what constituted a Cistercian nunnery, especially in England where Gilbertine and Cistercian communities were sometimes muddled.
The Yorkshire priory of Swine, for example, was ‘possibly Gilbertine-influenced yet not Gilbertine ….
cistercians.shef.ac.uk /cistercian_life/women/nuns/nuns2.php   (213 words)

  
 Robert Mannyng - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1338), a Gilbertine monk, provides a surprising amount of information about himself in his two known works, Handlyng Synne and a Chronicle.
In these two works, Mannyng tells of his residencies at the Gilbertine houses of Sempringham (near Bourne) and Sixhills, and also at the Gilbertine priory at Cambridge, St. Edmund’s.
His name, Robert de Brunne, indicates that he came from the place then known as Brunne (Bourne in Lincolnshire), thirteen kilometres south of Sempringham, the site of the mother house of the Gilbertine order.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Mannyng   (565 words)

  
 The Friends of Chicksands Priory
Gilbert did not take the vows of the Gilbertine Order until he was close to death.
He felt that doing so would be a sign of arrogance as he had written the Gilbertine Rule.
The Pope gave the decree on 11th January and the feast of St. Gilbert was commanded to be on 4th February, The Papal Bull was issued 30 January 1202 and sent to the two Archbishops (Canterbury and York) and the Gilbertine Order.
www.chicksandspriory.co.uk /page1/page1.html   (1248 words)

  
 GILBERTINE
"GILBERTINE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a bright pledge", "a pledge", "a hostage", "bright".
"GILBERTINE" is a common misspelling or typo for: gabardine, libertine, libertines.
"GILBERTINE" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English.
www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/english/GI/GILBERTINE.html   (389 words)

  
 13.2 Translators I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
What we know about Robert Mannyng of Brunne is derived from his own accounts in the prefaces to his two main works, Handlyng Synne and the Chronicle of England.
He came from Bourne, Lincolnshire, and entered the parent house of the Gilbertine Canons at Sempringham in 1288.
In 1338 he lived in a Gilbertine priory at Sixille.
www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de /anglist1/staff/holteir/ba/intro1/html/13_2_translators_i.html   (155 words)

  
 Caminos de Santiago - Britain: Ermine Street
Remains can be seen of 2 Benedictine foundations: St Mary's abbey, which was the largest in the N of England; and Holy Trinity priory, Micklegate.
On the W side of the river Ancholme, either side of Ermine St S of Appleby, a derelict farm is probably on the site of the small Cistercian nunnery of Gokewell, and the Explorer map marks the scanty remains of Augustinian Thornholme.
The riverpath can take you S from Brigg, past Newstead Priory where a Norman vaulted room and a window are what remains of the former Gilbertine foundation, and Winghale Priory, where the building of that name is the descendant of a small alien Benedictine cell of Sées.
www.peterrobins.co.uk /camino/ermine.html   (1491 words)

  
 Stamford institutions for education and arts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
  A College of the Gilbertine Order of Sempringham at Stamford, 1303 reveals that the hall was given as an endowment by Robert Luttrell, as an act of charity specifically for members of the order ‘studying theology or philosophy’.
This is a document granting licence to the bequest of a manor in Stamford to the Gilbertine order for the establishment of a school.
It was written to confirm to the Prior and Convent that the bequest left to them would be honoured, and to show that the Church had agreed to licence the school.
www.le.ac.uk /hi/jsb16/merrick4.htm   (2489 words)

  
 Walter's Daughters and the Watton Priory
Watton was established as a Gilbertine priory about 1150, and between 1160 and 1165 had its first scandal and miracle.
Frederick Ross gives a fully embellished version of the story in Legendary Yorkshire, and the documentary evidence for the story was carefully assessed by the historian Brian Golding in Gilbert of Sempringham and the Gilbertine Order.
The vows of poverty of women at Watton were much easier to bear than in most of the Yorkshire nunneries.
www.boyntons.us /yorkshire/stories/wattondaughters.html   (732 words)

  
 Chicksands Priory: TV reveals historic secrets of spy base - Digitised Resources - Bedfordshire's Virtual Library
Chicksands Priory is rich in history, becoming a priory of the Gilbertine order in 1147 and providing refuge for Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1164, when he disguised himself as a canon.
Although male and female members of the order were kept separated, on an inspection of the priory during the dissolution of monasteries under King Henry VIII, it was found that some of the priests and nuns were having relationships and even that one or two nuns were pregnant.
So few Gilbertine monasteries survive that we wanted to find out how they were laid out.
www.galaxy.bedfordshire.gov.uk /webingres/bedfordshire/vlib/0.digitised_resources/chicksands_news_priory_tv.htm   (412 words)

  
 HLS Library: Notes
By 1189 (the year Of St. Gilbert's death) there were sixteen Gilbertine houses in England.
Gilbert of Sempringham and the Gilbertines (London, 1901).
Such a prosperous and populous convent could not be without is problems: in 1155 a novice of Watton became pregnant of her lover, one of the lay brothers, was attacked and savagely tortured by the outraged nuns.
www.law.harvard.edu /library/collections/special/exhibitions/history_in_deed/endnotes.php   (1532 words)

  
 Cambridgeshire
Houses of Gilbertine canons - Priory of St Edmund, Cambridge
Houses of Gilbertine canons - Priory of Fordham
Houses of Gilbertine canons - Priory of Marmont
www.medievalarthistory.co.uk /Cambridgeshire.html   (121 words)

  
 GENUKI: Sempringham, LIN
The hamlet of Birthorpe and the small town of Pointon (sometimes "Poynton") are situated in Sempringham parish.
West of B1177, between Billingborough and Pointon, is the Abbey Church, considered the birthplace of St. Gilbert, founder of the Gilbertines, the only English monastic order.
Twelve years after his death, at the request of the Archbishop of Canterbury, he was canonized by Innocent III, and his relics were brought to Sempringham Church, his shrine becoming a centre of pilgrimage.
www.genuki.org.uk:8080 /big/eng/LIN/Sempringham   (520 words)

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