In the year 991 Æthelweard was associated with archbishop Sigeric in the conclusion of a peace with the victorious Danes from Maldon, and in 994 he was sent with Bishop Ælfheah of Winchester to make peace with Olaf Tryggvason at Andover.

Ælfric no doubt gained some reputation as a scholar at Winchester, for when, in 987, the abbey of Cerne ( Cerne Abbas in Dorset ) was finished, he was sent by Bishop Ælfheah ( Alphege ), Æthelwold's successor, at the request of the chief benefactor of the abbey, the ealdorman Æthelmær the Stout, to teach the Benedictine monks there.

In 1006 Ælfheah succeeded Ælfric as Archbishop of Canterbury, taking Swithun's head with him as a relic for the new location.

After a period in the late 930s studying under Ælfheah at Winchester, Æthelwold moved to Glastonbury Abbey, where Dunstan had been made abbot.

Oda was a supporter of Dunstan's monastic reforms, and was a reforming agent in the church along with Cenwald the Bishop of Worcester and Ælfheah the Bishop of Winchester.

Ælfheah (, " elf-high "; 954 – 19 April 1012 ), officially remembered by the name Alphege within some churches, and also called Elphege, Alfege, or Godwine, was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Winchester, later Archbishop of Canterbury.

Ælfheah furthered the cult of Dunstan and also encouraged learning.

Ælfheah was canonized as a saint in 1078.

Purportedly born in Weston on the outskirts of Bath, Ælfheah became a monk early in life.

Probably due to the influence of Dunstan, the Archbishop of Canterbury ( 959 – 988 ), Ælfheah was elected Bishop of Winchester in 984, and was consecrated on 19 October that year.

Ælfheah may have played a part in the treaty negotiations, and it is certain that he confirmed Olaf in his new faith.

Aided by the treachery of Ælfmaer, whose life Ælfheah had once saved, the raiders succeeded in sacking the city.

Ælfheah was taken prisoner and held captive for seven months.

Ælfheah refused to allow a ransom to be paid for his freedom, and as a result was killed on 19 April 1012 at Greenwich ( then in Kent, now part of London ), reputedly on the site of St Alfege's Church.

Ælfheah was the first Archbishop of Canterbury to die a violent death.

A contemporary report tells that Thorkell the Tall attempted to save Ælfheah from the mob about to kill him by offering them everything he owned except for his ship, in exchange for Ælfheah's life ; Thorkell's presence is not mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, however.

" Ælfheah was buried in St Paul's Cathedral.

Pope Gregory VII canonized Ælfheah in 1078, with a feast day of 19 April.

He was persuaded of Ælfheah's sanctity, but Ælfheah and Augustine of Canterbury were the only pre-conquest Anglo-Saxon archbishops kept on Canterbury's calendar of saints.

A Life of Saint Ælfheah in prose and verse was written by a Canterbury monk named Osbern, at Lanfranc's request.

In 1929 a new church in Bath was dedicated to Saint Ælfheah, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott in homage to the ancient Roman church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin.

* 1012 – Martyrdom of Ælfheah in Greenwich, London.

So Olaf let himself be baptised by St. Ælfheah of Canterbury in 994.

He also presided over the translation of the relics of Ælfheah, his predecessor at Canterbury who was regarded as a martyr and saint.

Furthermore in The Cartulary of the Abbey of Eynsham Transaction, King Æthelred sent to Eynsham Abbey confirmation of the foundation ( in 1005 ) by Æthelmær, the endowment including 20 hides at Esher, Surrey ( granted by Beorhthelm, bishop, to Æthelweard, and bequeathed by Æthelweard to his son, Æthelmær ); and land at Thames Ditton, Surrey, among several other items.

Eleanor then left for Poitiers, the capital of Aquitaine, and sent John and his sister Joan north to Fontevrault Abbey.

The king's body was sent north for reburial, in the reign of his son Alexander, at Dunfermline Abbey, or possibly Iona.

As a young man, Grimoard became a Benedictine monk in the small Priory of Chirac, near his home, which was a dependency of the ancient Abbey of St. Victor near Marseille, and he was sent there for his novitiate.

However, though recently pledged to support King Edward, it is interesting to note that Robert the Bruce sent a letter to the monks at Melrose Abbey in March 1302 which effectively weakened his usefulness to the English king.

William then sent forces into London to construct a castle ; he was crowned at Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day 1066.

Almost immediately, Zbigniew was sent to Germany and placed in the Quedlinburg Abbey.

Payments made for the ceremony include hanging tapestries ; carrying church furnishings from the Palace chapel into the Abbey ; eleven chaplains ; boards for stages in the Abbey ; and messengers sent to summon the ladies of the kingdom.

This crown was sent to King Edward I in London where it was probably placed with the English crown jewels at Westminster Abbey.

Her body was then sent to London, taking 12 days to reach Westminster Abbey.

The Canons were famous for their dedication to scholarly pursuits, and sent the youth to their major center of studies, the Abbey of the Holy Cross in Coimbra.

Construction continued throughout World War I: some of the monks were of German nationality, but were not sent to an internment camp, on condition that they remained confined to the Abbey grounds.

Also saved by the two officers ' prompt action were the collections of the Keats-Shelley Memorial House in Rome which had been sent to the Abbey for safety in December 1942.

The victorious Christians seized several prizes of war: the tapestry covering the entrance to Al Nasir's tent was sent to the Abbey of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas near Burgos where it remains on display to date, and Miramamolín's tent and standard were delivered to Pope Innocent III.

He sent a small army into the Battle of Flodden Field, commanded by his alleged son Sir John Stanley who later entered the monastery of Westminster Abbey.

A disciple of St Wilfrid, he was sent to the Abbey of Ripon almost as soon as he was weaned.

He did not, as it turned out, return until the summer of 1794, after an absence of seven years, having in the meantime executed another ideal commission ( a " Cephalus and Aurora ") for Thomas Hope, and having sent home models for several sepulchral monuments, including one in relief for the poet William Collins in Chichester cathedral, and one in the round for Lord Mansfield in Westminster Abbey.

St Albans Abbey had a sapphire ring, and Canterbury a crystal orb, said to have been given by Mandeville ; but these might have been sent from Liège, and it will appear later that the Liège physician possessed and wrote about precious stones.

His early education came from the parish priest, but he was sent at an early age to the cloister school at Evesham Abbey, and from there, at age eighteen, to Gloucester Hall, Oxford, as a Benedictine student.

With MacNeill willing to take part, O ' Rahilly and Hobson sent out invitations for the first meeting at Wynn's Hotel in Abbey Street, Dublin, on November 11.

In 1824, he exhibited another view of Dryburgh Abbey at the British Institution and sent two works to the first exhibition of the newly formed Society of British Artists.

The fourth Duke of Bedford contracted him to supervising the pruning of fruit trees at Woburn Abbey and the care of his prized collection of American trees, especially evergreens, which were grown from seeds that, on Miller's suggestion, had been sent in barrels from Pennsylvania, where they had been collected by John Bartram.

The song also got help with funding and donations from celebrities such as HRH Prince Charles, ( he also requested a copy to be sent to Buckingham Palace ), The then Prime Minister Mrs Margaret Thatcher, The Labour Party Leadrer Niel Kinnock M. P, and Sir Paul McCartney, and the single was mixed at Abbey Road Recording Studios.

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