| Authorized Form of Name | Peterborough Abbey; c.655-1539; Benedictine religious house |
| Corporate Name | Peterborough Abbey |
| TypeOfEntity | Corporate |
| Dates | c.655-1539 |
| Code | GB/109/11181 |
| Epithet | Benedictine religious house |
| OtherFormsOfName | Medeshamstede |
| DatesAndPlaces | Early monastery founded c. 655 (called Medeshamstede), but destroyed by the Danes in 870; refounded c. 966; dissolved in 1539. The abbey church was converted into a cathedral in 1541 for a dean and six prebendaries. |
| Relationships | Dependencies: Oxney (cell) and various hospitals in Peterborough, Stamford, Cotes and Southorpe |
| Source | Knowles and Hadcock, Medieval Religious Houses, (1953) p. 73. |
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| OrderNo | Title | Date | Link |
| CM XIX/21 | Libel in a tithe suit heard in the court of Canterbury between the Abbot and Convent of Peterborough and Mr. Richard Halle, rector of Oundle. | [Late 15th century] | CM/19/21 |
| MS 585 pag. 193 | Historia Abbatum Petriburgensium usque ad Ann. 1381, ex Chronico Johannis Abbatis Petriburgensis. | | MSS/585/73 |
| MS 198 [MS 198A] | PETERBOROUGH CONSUETUDINARY. PART I. | 14th century (c.1340) | MSS/198 |
| P.D. 83 | [BONIFACE VIII] | 26 April 1303 | PD/83 |
| CM VI/71 | Inhibition for visitation. Archbishop Thomas Cranmer to Abbot and Convent of Peterborough. | 1 June 1534 | CM/6/71 |
| MS 321 | ROBERT GLOVER, SOMERSET HERALD. PEDIGREES AND EVIDENCES | late 16th century | MSS/321 |
| MS 1106 | FLORES HISTORIARUM ETC. (Annales Paulini) | Late 13th century-14th century | MSS/1106 |
| MS 585 pagg. 61-112 | Notae de Codicibus MSS. Historicis aliisque magis insignibus in Bibliotheca Collegii Corporis Christi Cantabrig. | | MSS/585/35 |
| MS 585 pag. 195 | Historia Abbatum Petriburg. à primo ad ultimum ex diversis Chronicis per Monachos Petriburgenses diversos scriptis et continuatis. | | MSS/585/75 |
| MS 589 | Historia et Collectiones de Abbatibus Angliae Parlamentariis, | | MSS/589/2 |
| MS 198B | PETERBOROUGH CONSUETUDINARY. PART III. | 14th century (c.1340) | MSS/198B |
| MS 2341 | DIVORCE OF CATHERINE OF ARRAGON | | MSS/2341-2342/2341 |
| MS 191 | BEDA. AUGUSTINUS ETC. | 12th century | MSS/191 |
| MS 202 | AUGUSTINUS, ISIDORUS, ETC. | Late 12th century | MSS/202 |
| MS 331 | BRUT CHRONICLE. GOSPEL OF THOMAS. LIFE OF S. EDWARD. | Late 13th century-15th century | MSS/331 |