Rievaulx Abbey: History - Rise and Fall - Notes

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1. Walter Daniel, Life of Aelred, pp. 36-7.
2. Durham Episcopal Charters 1071-1152, ed. H. S. Offler, Surtees Society 179 (1968), pp. 147-9.
3. Mullin, Cistercians in Yorkshire, p. 85.
4. Reginald’s Life of Godric was published by the Surtees Society in 1845.
5. Aelred’s perception of the ethos of religious life at Rievaulx, cited in Walter Daniel, Life of Aelred, p. 37.
6. Early Yorkshire Charters II, no. 95; Rievaulx Chartulary no. 49 (p. 27).
7. Walter Daniel, Life of Aelred, p. 30.
8. Aelred of Rievaulx, Mirror of Charity, tr. E. Connor (Michigan, 1990), II 17: 43 (pp. 194-5).
9. For an outline of building at Rievaulx under Aelred, see Fergusson and Harrison, Rievaulx Abbey, pp. 66-68.
10. For an extensive discussion of Rievaulx’s granges, see Burton, ‘The estates and economy of Rievaulx Abbey’, pp. 69-81.
11. Burton, ‘The estates and economy of Rievaulx Abbey’, p. 34.
12. Gilbert of Hoyland, ‘In remembrance of Abbot Aelred’, translated in The Cistercian World: Monastic Writings of the Twelfth Century, ed. P. Matarasso (Harmondsworth, 1993), pp. 221-222.
13. For example, William Ros was buried before the High Altar and his son, Robert, who died in 1285 was buried in the southern part of the church; another William, who died in 1315, was laid to rest in the north side of the church and his son William, who died in 1343, was buried in the south, see Burton, ‘Kirkham Priory’, p. 23. Although the Ros geneology states that Adelina’s husband, Peter Ros, was buried at Rievaulx, Burton notes that this is probably a mistake since Peter, it seems, died before 1130, namely, before Rievaulx had been founded, Burton, ‘The estates and economy of Rievaulx Abbey’, p. 69, no. 174.
14. Burton, ‘The estates and economy of Rievaulx Abbey’, pp. 68-69. John’s widow, Mary, requested that she be buried beside her husband and left 100s for a marble stone, similar to that of her grandmother’s in St Botulf’s church. For the succession to the Ros lordship, see Rievaulx Cartulary, appendix pp. 360-362.
15. Cartularium Prioratus de Gyseburne I, Surtees Soc 86 (1889), no. DXCII, pp. 280-1.
16. D. Williams, The Cistercians in the Early Middle Ages (Leominster, 1999), p. 73; Clay ‘Early abbots’, p. 36.
17. Yorkshire Fines, John, Surtees Soc. XCIV (1897), no. xcix (p. 40).
18. Yorkshire Fines, John, Surtees Soc. XCIV (1897), no. cccxc, p. 143.
19. Chartulary of Rievaulx, no. 241 (pp. 175-176).
20. Cited in Cassidy-Welch, Monastic Spaces and their Meaning, p. 65

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