Amabilia de Ufford, Prioress of Carrow

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Amabilia de Ufford, Prioress of Carrow

Also Known As: "Amabel"
Birthdate:
Death: 1290
Carrow Priory, Bracondale, Norwich, Norfolk , England
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Sir Robert de Ufford, Justicar and Sarah Ufford
Sister of Alice Ufford
Half sister of Alice Wateville; Robert de Ufford, 1st Baron Ufford; Margaret Coleville and Thomas de Ufford

Occupation: Prioress
Managed by: Erica Howton
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About Amabilia de Ufford, Prioress of Carrow

"I suspect that Amabel De Ufford, Prioress of Carrow, in the suburbs of Norwich, 1289-1291, was another daughter of Robert and Mary de Ufford. (in)"


  • Genealogical Memoirs of the Extinct Family of Chester of Chicheley: Their Ancestors and Descendants, Volume 1 (Google eBook) Robert Edmond Chester Waters Robson & sons, 1878.  Page 322 - 323
  • 'Houses of Benedictine nuns: The priory of Carrow', in A History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 2, ed. William Page (London, 1906), pp. 351-354 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/norf/vol2/pp351-354 [accessed 13 February 2015].
  • * Amabel de Ufford, (fn. 25) died 1290
  • * * 25. Blomefield, Hist, of Norf. iv. 525.
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrow_Abbey "Carrow Abbey is a former Benedictine priory in Bracondale, northeast Norwich, England.[1] The village on the site was previously called Carrow ...The Benedictine nunnery, usually called Carrow Abbey, though only a priory, was founded originally for a prioress and nine "black nuns", but afterwards twelve nuns were part of its foundation.[5] ... "
  • * Rye, Walter (1883). The Norfolk antiquarian miscellany (Now in the public domain. ed.). Printed by Miller and Leavins. pp. 465, 470–471. Retrieved 5 June 2011.
  • * * The Norfolk Antiquarian Miscellany (Google eBook) Walter Rye. Miller and Leavins, 1883 - Norfolk (England). Page 483. "11. St. Mary Unbrent. Before 1290 Sir Richard de Boyland assigned a house adjoining the south side of the church here. In 1290 Amabilia de Ufford, the then prioress, granted it to the Friars Preachers to be laid into their site."
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_of_Norwich "Julian of Norwich (c. 8 November 1342 – c. 1416) was an English anchoress who is regarded as one of the most important Christian mystics. .... The Norwich Benedictine and Cardinal, Adam Easton, may have been Julian of Norwich's spiritual director and edited her Long Text Showing of Love. "
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Amabilia de Ufford, Prioress of Carrow's Timeline

1290
1290
Carrow Priory, Bracondale, Norwich, Norfolk , England
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