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Foundation of Kirkstall Abbey: footnotes 1. Following the Norman Conquest of 1066 Henry’s 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 Kirkstall Abbey, 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: Kirkstall’s 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.
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