Abbot Of Peterborough

Peterborough. 4 recorded holders. religious office ← all offices

The succession the rolls themselves record for this office, earliest first — a finding aid drawn from the roll text, not an authoritative fasti. Spelling variants of one holder now fold together where the volumes' own printed indexes attest them (“Burghers” and “Burghersh” are one man when the editors say so); the opposite case — one name hiding two men — is proposed from the same indexes and from matched identities, and separates only after human confirmation. Until then a shared name lists as one holder, and the list can be checked against printed succession lists (Fasti / VCH).

1. Walter de Sulleye 1277 ×3
   • 1277-08-18 — Licence, after inquisition ad guod damnum made by John son of Hugh, keeper of the forest of Salop, for the abbot and convent of Bildwas to assart 60 acres of th…
   • 1277-08-22 — Power to Reginald de Grey to receive Welshmen into the king's peace. Mandate to G[uncelin] de B[adelesmere], justice of Chester, to pay out of the issues of his…
2. Adam de Botheby 1330 ×2
   • 1330-04-03 — Commission of oyer and terminer to Richard de Wylughby, Humphrey de Waleden, John de Shardelowe and Robert de Asshele, on complaint by Jobn de Bohun, earl of He…
3. Henry de Overton 1362
   • 1362-01-26 — To Richard de Wydeville escheator in Norhamptonshire, Order not to intermeddle further with a moiety of the manor of Thornhawe taken into the King's hand by the…
4. Richard Assheton 1461
   • 1461-09-04 — for life to William Porter, one of the yeomen of the crown, of the of balistar within the Tower of London, receiving the accustomed from the issues of the count…

Ordered by the first date each holder appears with the office — where a holder is undated they sort last. Dates are the roll entries' own, not tenure dates.
Cite: “abbot of Peterborough”, Reading the Rolls, https://readingtherolls.com/office/abbot-of-peterborough, accessed 2026-07-25. Derived from the printed calendars of the medieval English royal records.