Lavendon

Title

Lavendon

Also Known As

Lavendone, Laventon, Lavindane, Lawnden, Lovendon

Dates

Founded 1150s; dissolved 1536

Dedication

John the Baptist

Affiliation

Sulby

Medieval Diocese

Lincoln

Circary

Mid England

History

Lavendon was founded by Lord John de Bidun ca. 1154-1158. It was a relatively prosperous community in the 12th and 13th centuries, but by the 14th century was experiencing economic decline.

Lavendon Abbey was suppressed at the Reformation and there are no visible remains of the monastic complex above ground today, although a 17th-century grange was built on the site.

Heads of Community

Abbots

David, fl. ca. 1158
John I, 1203-1204
Ralph, ca. 1210-ca. 1220
Augustine, 1233-ca. 1240
Jordan, 1254-1271
Philip, 1279-1286
John II of Lathbury, 1312-?
Ignotus, 1331-?
Richard of Emburton (or Emerton), 1339-1380
William I of Leicester, 1380-?
Nicholas of Lathbury, 1403-1413
Hugh, fl. 1415
Edmund, fl. 1457
Thomas Todyngton, fl. ca. 1469
Robert Helmedon, 1475-1488
William II Curlew, ca. 1491-1503
William III Hawle, 1503-?
William IV Gale, 1525-1536

Status

Abbey

Archival Sources

Kew, The National Archives

PRO 23/2571 (seal mould)

SC 13/R31 (seal)

Bibliography

Britnell, Richard. “Medieval Lavendon.” The Bucks Standard, May 1, 1964.

Hulton, C.G. “Lavendon Abbey.” Records of Buckinghamshire or Papers and Notes on the History, Antiquities and Architecture of the County 2 (1863): 217–20. https://books.google.com/books?id=CTgQAAAAYAAJ.

Page, William, ed. “House of Premonstratensian Canons: The Abbey of Lavendon.” In A History of the County of Buckingham, 1:384–86. London, 1905. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/bucks/vol1/pp384-386.

Files

Collection

Mid England

Citation

“Lavendon,” A Premonstratensian Atlas, accessed October 16, 2026, https://yvonneseale.org/atlas/items/show/305.

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