Prioresses of Kirklees

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By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2015-09-01. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-06-19.

According to the Gest of Robyn Hode and Robin Hood's Death, a prioress of Kirklees and her illicit lover were responsible for Robin Hood's death. The prioress is not given a name in either tale, and it is quite uncertain if their authors had a specific historical prioress in mind. Nonetheless a list of prioresses follows here. I believe it includes all known incumbents, yet it is quite incomplete, and unless major new discoveries are made, it will probably remain so. Kirklees Priory was dissolved on 24 November 1539.[1]

Prioresses of Kirklees

  • 13th cent. Elizabeth de Staynton; said to be the first prioress.[2]
  • 1240. Sibill.[3]
  • 1306.10.04 – ? 1307.01.14. Margaret de Clayworth.[4]
  • 1307.01.15[2] – after 1331.04.05. Alice de Scriven[5]
  • 15th cent. (before Cecilia Hill, see next) or 1350. ? Margaret de Seyvill, daughter of Sir John Seyvill.[6]
  • Alice de Mountenay,[7]
  • 14?? – 1486 – 1491. Cecilia Hill, Hiks or Hyk.[8]
  • 1491 – 1499 or earlier. Joanna Stansfeld.[9]
  • 1499.04.24 – 1505.03.09 or earlier. Margaret Tarlton.[9]
  • 1505.03.10 –-15??. Margaret Fletcher.[10]
  • 1527.07.09 – 1538.05.13 or later Cecilia Topcliffe.[11]
  • 1538.05.14 or later – 1539.11.24. Joan Kyppes, Keps, Kepax or Kepast. The last prioress of Kirklees.[12]

Also see

Notes

  1. ↑ Armytage, George John 1881a; see p. 75 n. 1; Armytage, George John. 'Account of Excavations at Kirklees Priory, Yorks.', Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Second Series, vol. XXI (1906-1907), pp. 175-86 [+2 pp. plates]; see p. 176.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chadwick, S. J. 'Kirklees Nunnery', Yorkshire Notes and Queries, vol. I (1888), pp. 82-94, 97-105; see p. 85; Chadwick, S J 1902a, see p. 321.
  3. ↑ [Dodsworth, Roger], compil.; Ellis, Alfred S., ed. 'Dodsworth's Yorkshire Notes (Agbrigg) [part 3]', Yorkshire Archæological and Topographical Journal, vol. VII, part XXVII (1882), pp. 401-28; see p. 404; Chadwick, S J 1902a, see p. 321.
  4. ↑ Chadwick, S. J. 'Kirklees Nunnery', Yorkshire Notes and Queries, vol. I (1888), pp. 82-94, 97-105; see p. 85; Chadwick, S J 1902a, see p. 321.
  5. ↑ See Lister, John, ed.; [Stokes, Ethel, transcr.] Court Rolls of the Manor of Wakefield, vol. III (Yorkshire Archæological Society, Record Series, vol. LVII (1917), pp. 147 (25 July 1316), 154 (August 1316); Walker, J.W., ed.; [Stokes, Ethel, transcr.], Court Rolls of the Manor of Wakefield. Vol. V. 1322-1331 (Yorkshire Archæological Society, Record Series, vol. CIX) (1945), pp. 173 (12 March 1331), 174 (5 April 1331). Scriven ís a village just north of Knaresborough, in North Yorkshire (formerly in the North Riding of Yorkshire). Chadwick, S J 1902a, p. 321, has her as prioress during 1307-1308 only.
  6. ↑ 15th cent.: Chadwick, S. J. 'Kirklees Nunnery', Yorkshire Notes and Queries, vol. I (1888), pp. 82-94, 97-105; see p. 85. 1350: Chadwick, S J 1902a, see p. 321.
  7. ↑ Chadwick, S J 1902a, see p. 321.
  8. ↑ Chadwick, S. J. 'Kirklees Nunnery', Yorkshire Notes and Queries, vol. I (1888), pp. 82-94, 97-105; see p. 85; Chadwick, S J 1902a, see p. 321.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Chadwick, S. J. 'Kirklees Nunnery', Yorkshire Notes and Queries, vol. I (1888), pp. 82-94, 97-105, pp. 85-86; Chadwick, S J 1902a, see p. 321.
  10. ↑ Chadwick (1888), p. 86; Chadwick, S J 1902a, see p. 321.
  11. ↑ Clay, John William, ed. Yorkshire Monasteries: Suppression Papers (The Yorkshire Archæological Society, Record Series, vol. XLVIII) ([s.l.], 1912), p. 127. Also see Chadwick (1888), p. 86; Chadwick, S J 1902a, see p. 321.
  12. ↑ Clay, p. 127. Also see Armytage (1906), p. 180; Chadwick (1888), p. 86; Chadwick, S J 1902a, see p. 321.


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