John, Abbot of Vale Royal

John was Abbot of Vale Royal Abbey, Cheshire, between 1405 and 1411, ^[1] and although his abbacy seems to have been largely free of the local disorder that had plagued those of his predecessors, the Abbey appears to have been taken in to King Henry IV's hands on at least two occasions (in 1405 and 1408). ^{[2] [note 1]}

Notes

1. Almost nothing is known of Vale Royal Abbey or the activities of its Abbots for the first decade or so of the fifteenth century. Most of the major texts (for example, the Victoria County History, George Ormerod's The History of the County Palatine of Cheshire, Edward Baines' The History of the County Palatine of Lancashire, and even the Abbey's own Ledger book chronicle) skip from around the end of Stephen's abbacy to that of Henry Arrowsmith or Thomas Kirkham. ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

References

1. Knowles & Smith 2008, p. 341.
2. V. C. H. 1980, pp. 156–65.
3. Ormerod 1819, p. 72.
4. Baines 1836, pp. 378–79.
5. Brownbill 1914, pp. 20–23.

Bibliography

• Baines, E. (1836). History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster. Vol. IV. London: Fisher, son & Company.
• Brownbill, J., ed. (1914). The Ledger Book of Vale Royal Abbey. Manchester: Manchester Record Society.
• Knowles, D.; Smith, D. M. (2008). The Heads of Religious Houses: England and Wales, 1377-1540. Vol. III. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-0-521-86508-1.
• Ormerod, G. (1819). The history of the county palatine and city of Chester: compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county; incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal, and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities. London: Lackington, Hughes. Harding, Mavor, and Jones.
• V. C. H. (1980). Elrington, C. R.; Harris, B. E. (eds.). "Houses of Cistercian monks: The abbey of Vale Royal". Victoria County History. A History of the County of Chester, III. London.