Meaux Abbey

Site of Meaux Abbey, west of Meaux.
Only earthworks are visible.

Meaux Abbey (archaic, also referred to as Melsa) was a Cistercian abbey founded in 1151 by William le Gros, 1st Earl of Albemarle (Count of Aumale), Earl of York and 4th Lord of Holderness, near Beverley in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

A chronicle of its history was written by Thomas Burton, one of the abbots. The abbey owned the land of Wyke, which was purchased from it by King Edward I of England in 1293 to establish the town of Kingston upon Hull.

The abbey was closed in 1539 by King Henry VIII. It was demolished, and the stones were used to build defences for the town of Kingston upon Hull.

The site of the abbey is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

References

Sources

• de Burton, Thomas (1396), Bond, Edward A. (ed.), Chronica Monasterii de Melsa, a Fundatione Usque ad Annum 1396, Auctore Thoma de Burton, Abbate. Accedit Continuatio ad Annum 1406, Rerum Britannicarum medii aevi scriptores (Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages) (in Latin and English), London: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer
  • Chronica monasterii de Melsa .., vol. 1, 1866
  • Chronica monasterii de Melsa .., vol. 2, 1867
  • Chronica monasterii de Melsa .., vol. 3, 1868

The scholarly prefaces to each volume by Edward Bond (later principal librarian of the British Museum) constitute a comprehensive history of the Abbey. The text was collated with the original 14th century manuscripts in the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps in Cheltenham. (Vol. 1, p. lxxxi)

External links

• Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Meaux" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
• "Cistercian Abbeys: Meaux". cistercians.shef.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 9 June 2016.