1. Following the Norman Conquest
of 1066 Henrys grandfather, Ilbert de Lacy, received from
William I extensive holdings in Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire;
when Henry later inherited these lands he became a leading landholder
in the North.
2. Examples include Alexander,
the founding abbot of Kirkstall, who had been prior of Fountains;
his successor, Ralph Haget, was a monk of Fountains and after his
years as abbot of Kirkstall assumed the abbacy at Fountains; Lambert,
the third abbot, was also a monk of Fountains indeed, he
was one of the founding party sent to colonise Kirkstall; the fourth
abbot, Turgisius, was likely a monk of Fountains; Ralph of Newcastle,
the fifth to preside was from Fountains; as his successor, Helias,
was from Roche,
another of Fountains daughter-houses, the family connection
was maintained; many of the later abbots were also from Fountains.
3. The Foundation of KirkstallAbbey,
ed. and tr. E. Clark, Publications of the Thoresby Society IV (Leeds,
1895), p. 175.
4. G. D. Barnes, Kirkstall
Abbey 1147-1539: an Historical Study, Thoresby Socity LVIII
(Leeds, 1984), p. 51.
5. It has been suggested that
a building found beneath the infirmary at Kirkstall during the
excavations
of 1960-4 may have been built by the hermits, rather than
the monks, Barnes, Kirkstall Abbey, p. 7, fn. 27; recent
research, however, thinks this unlikely.
6. See J. Stansfeld, A
rent-roll of Kirkstall Abbey, Publications of the Thoresby
Society II (Leeds, 1891), facing p. 17, fig. I: Kirkstalls
Arms: azure,
three swords argent, their points in base, hilts and pommels
or;
for the de Lacy Arms, see facing p. 18, fig. 1, plate 2.
7. Foundation of Kirkstall,
p. 179.
8. Vesper Lane now runs along
the top of what was the millpond dam, B. Sitch, Kirkstall Abbey:
a Guide to Leeds’ Cistercian Monastery (Leeds, 2000), p.
16.
9. The abbot and convent of
the Benedictine house, St Martin, Aumale, Normandy, required money
to pay for repair work following a fire at their house, and thus
negotiated the sale of all their lands, manors and lordships in
the Yorkshire West Riding for a sum of £10 000, D. Matthews,
The Norman Monasteries and their English Possessions (London,
1962), p. 118.
10. Foundation of Kirkstall,
p. 182; The Coucher Book of the Cistercian Abbey of Kirkstall
in the West Riding of the County of York,
ed. W. T. Lancaster and W. P. Baildon, Thoresby Society VIII (Leeds,
1908), pp. xxiii.