About Alan of Tewkesbury
Lived 1140 – 1202 (aged 61–62). Alan of Tewkesbury was an English monk, prior and writer.
Alan, Abbot of Tewkesbury (date of birth unknown) is said by Gervase of Canterbury (contemporary chronicler) to be of English (i.e. non-Norman) descent. He probably spent some time at Benevento (Italy). Became a monk at Canterbury, rising to prior in 1179. In the struggle between Thomas of Canterbury and Henry II, he was a strong supporter of Thomas. As a result, he went to Tewkesbury as abbot where he was out of Henry's way.
His works are written about in Life of St. Thomas printed (as Life of Becket) in the second volume of Materials for the History of Thomas Becket, edited by James Craigie Robertson (Rolls Series, London; 1875–85; Part I, CXC, 1475–88).
He also collected and arranged a number of Thomas' epistles.
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Abbot of Tewkesbury
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Alan of Tewkesbury was born in 1140 in Kent.
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Alan of Tewkesbury died in 1202 in Tewkesbury Abbey.
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Alan of Tewkesbury was a monk, prior and writer.
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Alan of Tewkesbury was English.
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