Re: Codd as a shortened place name, continued
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Re: Codd as a shortened place name
Sherry Twamley 12/04/11
In 1132 motives similar to those which had inspired the formation of the Cistercian order in Burgundy, led to the expansion of Cistercian Monasteries throughout England and Ireland.Enter the Cods of England and Ireland, who were intimately involved with the expansion of the St. Mary’s Cistercian abbeys in (LIST CITIES) as canons regular (monks) or abbots.Canons Regular, who combine the clerical office and state with the observance of community religious life and the evangelical counsels, have their origin in the communities of clergy which lived with their bishop.A canon regular is essentially a religious cleric.In the year 1182 the abbey of Dunbrody, county of Wexford, of the Cistercian order, was founded and endowed with lands and property granted to Dunbrody [Portu Sancte Marie, Port St. Mary’s] Abbey -- the finest medieval ruin in Co. Wexford. The abbey was built about 1210 onwards by the English Cistercians of St Mary's. St Mary's Abbey in York (the post Conquest abbey of St. Mary of Fountains/Fontanensi led to the founding of Fountains Abbey in 1132. The three wealthiest Benedictine establishments in medieval Yorkshire were those at Selby (post Conquest foundation of about 1070) at St Mary's, York, and at Whitby.