Cholsey Abbey

{{Short description|Abbey in Cholsey, Oxfordshire, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}} '''Cholsey Abbey''' was an [[Anglo-Saxons|Anglo-Saxon]] abbey in [[Cholsey]] in what is now the [[England|English]] county of [[Oxfordshire]] (formerly [[Berkshire]]), which was founded between 993 and 997 by King [[Æthelred the Unready]] on land which he had acquired from his mother, [[Ælfthryth (wife of Edgar)|Ælfthryth]]. It was dedicated to Æthelred's half-brother, [[Edward the Martyr]], and its first abbot was [[Germanus of Winchester|Germanus]]. It may have been sacked by the Vikings in 1006, and by the time of the [[Norman Conquest]] in 1066 it had disappeared.<ref>{{cite book|first= Levi|last=Roach |title=Æthelred the Unready |pages=169-171|publisher=Yale University Press|location= New Haven, Connecticut |year=2016|isbn=978-0-300-22972-1}}</ref>

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==See also== *[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=40057 British History Online: Victoria County History of Berkshire: The Abbey of Reading] (mentioning Cholsey Abbey)

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