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4 unusual facts about Lanercost Priory


James Stewart, 5th High Steward of Scotland

In 1302, with six other ambassadors including John Comyn, Earl of Buchan, he was sent to solicit the aid of the French king against Edward, to whom he was once again compelled to swear fealty at Lanercost on 23 October 1306.

Lanercost Chronicle

A G Little concluded that the chronicle is basically a Franciscan chronicle, which has been adapted, abbreviated, and interpolated at the Augustinian Lanercost Priory.

Lanercost Priory

In the 1870s, there was further restoration by the Carlisle architect C. J. Ferguson.

Rosalind Howard, Countess of Carlisle

Her ashes were interred alongside her husband's at Lanercost Priory on 18 August, with Geoffrey as the chief mourner.



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