Leper Knights: The Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem in England, C.1150-1544An illustrated history of the English branch of the Order of St Lazarus, founded to care for lepers and send leper knights to the Crusades. One of the most unusual contributions to the crusading era was the idea of the leper knight - a response to the scourge of leprosy and the shortage of fighting men which beset the Latin kingdom in the twelfth century. The Order ofSt Lazarus, which saw the idea become a reality, founded establishments across Western Europe to provide essential support for its hospitaller and military vocations. This book explores the important contribution of the English branch of the order, which by 1300 managed a considerable estate from its chief preceptory at Burton Lazars in Leicestershire. Time proved the English Lazarites to be both tough and tenacious, if not always preoccupied with the care of lepers: following the fall of Acre in 1291 they endured a period of bitter internal conflict, only to emerge reformed and reinvigorated in the fifteenth century. Though these late medieval knights were very different from their twelfth-century predecessors, some ideologies lingered on, though subtly readapted to the requirements of a new age, until the order was finally suppressed by Henry VIII in 1544. The modern refoundation of the order, a charitable institution, dates from 1962. The book uses both documentary and archaeological evidence to provide the first ever account of this little-understood crusading order. DAVID MARCOMBE is Director of the Centre for LocalHistory, University of Nottingham. |
Contents
The order in the Holy Land c 11301291 | 6 |
Chapter | 10 |
Papal support for the order | 15 |
Chapter 1 | 18 |
Archaeology and iconography | 25 |
The chapel at Grattemont Trevor Clayton | 27 |
Chapter 2 | 32 |
The family of Roger de Mowbray 3839 | 38 |
Chapter 5 | 137 |
Piscina and sedilia Chaddesden church Trevor Clayton | 138 |
Leper sculpture Angel Choir Lincoln Cathedral Trevor Clayton | 139 |
Burton Lazars Preceptory | 147 |
Harehope Hospital | 158 |
Sir Richard Sutton Reproduced by kind permission of | 165 |
Holy Innocents Hospital Lincoln | 167 |
Privileges pardons and parishes | 175 |
Lands and Patrons | 41 |
Chapter 2 | 47 |
Temporalities according to the Taxatio | 49 |
Plate | 51 |
Distribution of temporalities 55545 | 54 |
Income from selected estates 1291 and 1535 | 56 |
Crusading Crisis and Revival | 66 |
Plate | 71 |
Land and Livelihood | 101 |
Hospitals and preceptories | 102 |
Choseley Manor Norfolk David Marcombe | 104 |
Seal of Roger de Mowbray Reproduced by kind permission from 36 | 105 |
Memorial of Thomas Mowbray duke of Norfolk Archaeologia | 111 |
Chapter 4 | 117 |
Burton Lazars c 1520 | 118 |
Chapter 6 | 124 |
Stone cistern on Harehope Moor Northumberland | 126 |
A brother of St Lazarus Trevor Clayton | 131 |
Care and community | 135 |
Westwade bridgechapel Norfolk Norfolk Record Office | 179 |
66 | 189 |
Seal of the confraternity of St Lazarus By permission of the | 192 |
86 | 195 |
120 | 202 |
Spiritualities according to the Taxatio | 203 |
All Saints Lowesby Trevor Clayton | 210 |
Chapter 2 | 213 |
Dissolution and Dispersal | 215 |
Temporalities and spiritualities according to the Valor | 219 |
Vaudey Grange Burton Lazars | 224 |
Memorial of Sir Thomas Legh By permission of the British | 232 |
Conclusion | 247 |
Letters of Confraternity and Indulgence | 256 |
Bibliography | 265 |
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Leper Knights: The Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem in England, C.1150-1544 David Marcombe No preview available - 2003 |
Leper Knights: The Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem in England, C.1150-1544 David Marcombe No preview available - 2003 |