Dunstable Timeline. Dunstable Time Line compiled by Rita Swift, additional information welcome. Please email Rita on rita. Top of page. 1st Century (Top)0.
The beginning of Roman Dunstable (Durocobrivis).Around this period, construction of the Roman road, now known as Watling Street, would have taken place.The crossroads in the centre of town is where it crosses the old Icknield Way.Century(Top)C 4. 10.The last of the Romans leave the area. there. Century (Top)5. 71.
The Saxons raid and destroy Durocobrivis. Century(Top)9. 21. The Danes raid and destroy the Saxon village built on the site of Durocobrivis 1. Century(Top)1. 08. The enumerators sent by William the Conqueror find nothing but burnt ruins on the site of the present Dunstable, so do not mention it in the Domesday Book. Century (Top)1. 10.
The Church of the Holy Trinity, Aldgate, is founded by Queen Maud. Aldgate's charity document is signed at Dunstable. Around this time, Henry I establishes a town around the crossroads. The first performance of a miracle play in England is given at Geoffrey de Gorham's school in Dunstable at around this time.
King Henry I and his court spend Christmas at Kingsbury, Dunstable. Work has started by this date on building the Augustinian Priory at Dunstable. The signature of Bernard, Dunstable's first Prior, appears this year on a document at Aldgate monastery, which looked upon Dunstable as its daughter foundation. A payment of one penny a day is authorised for a steward to look after the house (royal residence) when the King is not here.
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King Henry grants the first Charter to the town. King Henry spends Christmas at his palace at Dunstable. Coat of Arms is granted to Dunstable Priory by Henry I. King Stephen and his court spend Christmas at Dunstable.
About this date ownership of Ruxox (Flitwick), a chapel of ease for those a long way from church, is given to Dunstable Priory by Philip de Sanvill. His son Gilbert disputes the gift but changes his mind when he develops leprosy). King Stephen and Henry, the Duke of Normandy, hold a meeting at Dunstable. The burgesses are summoned by King Henry II to send representatives to Parliament, but they refuse. Thomas, the Prior of Dunstable, borrows £5. Aaron of Lincoln, a Jewish moneylender.
King Richard introduces a licensing system under which tournaments can legally be held in authorised parts of England. Dunstable is not included.
Century(Top)1. 20. Simon of Pattishall receives land from the Prior of Dunstable. In return he is “to find for the prior fitting entertainment (lodgings), three times a year, if he comes with four horses, or twice a year if he comes with six horses”. Richard de Morin is made Prior by King John. Richard held the office for 4.
A three- day fair in May is granted by King John who also gives the whole of the Manor of Houghton with its rights and profits to the Priory. Richard, canon of Merton, is made Prior of Dunstable. Bones of St. Fremund are brought from Oxfordshire to Dunstable Priory. Fremund was said to have been a prince, son of the Mercian King Offa, and to have fought against the Danes. Site of the former palace at Kingsbury is given to the Priory by King John.
Sir Gaufridus le Cauceis grants the Church of Bradeburn (Derbyshire) with its chapels etc., for the support of the hospice at Dunstable. The priors lose their lands at Houghton and Dunstable gives 1.
Four altars dedicated in the Priory. The Priory of St Peter starts a hospital of St Mary Magdalene for lepers on the east side of South Street on the town boundary, which was the town side of the present Half Moon Lane. The canons build an almonry (for the distribution of alms). An eclipse of the sun and moon is recorded by the canons. King John sends a letter granting safe conduct to those collecting alms on behalf of the Hospital. Great storm, many houses destroyed.
The prior documents his vision of two Jews who said Anti Christ would be born 4.The priors receive King John's writ for the recovery of lands at Houghton.Three representatives of the Pope arrive to preach a crusade.King John demands men and arms for the country's defence.Dunstable contributes 1.Dunstable Priory is consecrated by Hugh II, Bishop of Lincoln.Dunstable is burnt by accident. .
By- laws for Dunstable are produced. Stephen, Archbishop of Canterbury, visits Dunstable. First tournament held at Dunstable. King John spends the night at Dunstable on his journey north. The barons under the Earl of Perche, passing through the town, cause much damage.
The Prior of Dunstable brings a case against the clerics at Bradbourne and Ballindon, accusing them of being married, and puts his own canons in these churches. Itinerant justices come to Dunstable and take the people's oath of allegiance to Henry III. The English barons with Louis, Dauphin of France, in arms against the king, halt for a night in Dunstable after their defeat at Lincoln, and badly damage the church. The Priory is given half the parish of Pattishall in Northamptonshire. Court of Assizes held at Dunstable. The town partially destroyed by fire. Dunstable pays three marks to the king.
The prior enforces his claims of tithe of hay against many parishioners. Robert, Bishop of Lismore, and Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln, at Dunstable. The Priory publishes The Customal, a set of rules stating how the market should operate.
The roof on the Priory's presbytery falls in but is quickly repaired. Mossy, a Jew, unsuccessfully sues the prior for £7. His friends pay the king a mark of gold and £1.
One of the two towers at the Priory is blown down in a great storm. Robert Ranulph, chancellor to Henry I, falls from his horse and breaks his neck on a hill near Dunstable. Henry III visits Dunstable. Master Richard of Stanford is managing the school at Dunstable when a fight breaks out between the scholars and burgesses. People from Dunstable help King Henry's troops storm Bedford Castle, stronghold of Faukes de Breaute. Faukes had been fined by the king's justices, sitting at Dunstable, and in retaliation had imprisoned one of the judges. Two sisters, Isabella and Lucia, grant a piece of land to a hospital, St.
John's, “near to the Court of the Canons”. The Prior builds a manor house at Caldecote, (Calcutt Farm) near Houghton Regis, diverting a stream to create a moat. Three bills found against the Prior concerning the wall round the garden – the jury gives verdicts against the Prior. The Priory obtains a confirmation of the charters of Henry I and Richard I.
Ralph Buignon “grants to his dearest lords, the prior and canons, a moiety (half) of his land in Dunstapl' excepting the dower of his mother Elizabeth a croft outside his homestead and an acre of his inlands ..King's Court” (Kingsbury). . The chapel of St Mary is founded in the cemetery of the canons of Dunstable.Prior Richard appoints two coroners with jurisdiction in Dunstable to be overseers of measures in length and width, liquids and dry measures.Ten burgesses are excommunicated for withholding offerings.Henry III, passing through Dunstable, lodges at the Priory.Quarrel between townsmen and the canons.
King Henry III gives permission for tournaments to be held in Dunstable - one of only around nine licensed sites in England. Tournaments at this period were mock battles between rival armies held over a large area of land. Scholars guess that the local site was along the foot of Blow's Downs. Two canons at Dunstable Priory escape through a broken window, climb over a wall and join the Franciscan at Oxford.
Richard de Morins excommunicates them. The Priory purchases Flitwick Mill having been given it years earlier but then lost possession. The tunic of St. Hugh of Lincoln, currently at Dunstable, had previously been in the possession of Leighton. To keep the peace it is returned to Leighton, with Dunstable being allowed to keep one sleeve. John Young sells a goshawk to King Henry III. A severe winter causes the death of many of the Prior's sheep. When this is followed by a crop failure and building repairs, the Priory begins to get into serious debt.
Numerous discontented barons and knights assemble their retinues at Dunstable and Luton under the pretence of holding a tournament. The event is banned by the King. Henry III prohibits a tournament as he suspects the gathering is intended to take action against the Pope's unpopular representative, Master Martin. A tournament between Richard, Earl of Gloucester, and Guy de Lusignan is prohibited by the king who fears that “ his brother and followers would be cut to pieces”.