# Cholsey Abbey > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Cholsey_Abbey > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Cholsey_Abbey.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholsey_Abbey > Source revision: 1354986630 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Abbey in Cholsey, Oxfordshire, England **Cholsey Abbey** was an [Anglo-Saxon](/source/Anglo-Saxons) abbey in [Cholsey](/source/Cholsey) in what is now the [English](/source/England) county of [Oxfordshire](/source/Oxfordshire) (formerly [Berkshire](/source/Berkshire)), which was founded between 993 and 997 by King [Æthelred the Unready](/source/%C3%86thelred_the_Unready) on land which he had acquired from his mother, [Ælfthryth](/source/%C3%86lfthryth_(wife_of_Edgar)). It was dedicated to Æthelred's half-brother, [Edward the Martyr](/source/Edward_the_Martyr), and its first abbot was [Germanus](/source/Germanus_of_Winchester). It may have been sacked by the Vikings in 1006, and by the time of the [Norman Conquest](/source/Norman_Conquest) in 1066 it had disappeared.[1] ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Roach, Levi (2016). *Æthelred the Unready*. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. pp. 169–171. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-300-22972-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-300-22972-1). ## See also - [British History Online: Victoria County History of Berkshire: The Abbey of Reading](http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=40057) (mentioning Cholsey Abbey) v t e Benedictine abbeys and priories in medieval England and Wales Independent houses Abbotsbury Abergavenny Abingdon Alcester Athelney Bardney Bath Battle Bedford Birkenhead Bradwell Brewood (Black Ladies) Buckfast Burton Bury St Edmunds Canterbury (Christ Church) Canterbury (St Augustine's) Canwell Cerne Chertsey Chester Cholsey Colchester Coventry Crowland Durham Ely Evesham Eynsham Farewell Priory Faversham Glastonbury Gloucester Humberston Luffield Malmesbury Milton Monk Bretton Muchelney Molycourt Norwich (Holy Trinity) Pershore Peterborough Ramsey Reading Repton Rochester St Albans St Benet of Hulme Sandwell Selby Sherborne Shrewsbury Snelshall Tavistock Tewkesbury Thorney Upholland Walden Westminster Whitby Winchcombe Winchester (New Minster) Winchester (St Swithun) Worcester York (St Mary's) Dependent houses Aldeby Alkborough Alcester Alvecote Beadlow Bedemans Berg Belvoir Binham Breedon Brecon Bristol Bromfield Cardiff Cardigan Cranborne Darenth Deeping Dover Dunster Earls Colne Ewenny Ewyas Harold Exeter Farne Felixstowe Finchale Freiston Great Malvern Hatfield Peverel Henes (Sandtoft) Hereford Hertford Holy Island Horton Hoxne Hurley Jarrow Kidwelly Kilpeck King's Mead Kings Lynn Lammana Langley Leominster Leonard Stanley Lincoln Little Malvern Littlemore Lytham Middlesbrough Monkwearmouth Morville Norwich (St Leonard's) Oxford (of Canterbury) Oxford (of Durham) Oxford (of Gloucester) Penwortham Pilton Redbourne Richmond Rumburgh St Bees St Ives Scilly Snaith Snape Stamford Studley (Oxfordshire) Studley (Warwickshire) Tickhill Tynemouth Wallingford Westbury-on-Trym Wetheral Wymondham Yarmouth Alien priories Allerton Mauleverer Andover Andwell Appuldurcombe Arundel Astley Aston Priors Atherington Avebury Axmouth Blyth Boxgrove Brimpsfield Burstall Burwell Caldy Carisbrooke Chepstow Clatford Cogges Corsham Covenham Cowick Creeting (St. Mary) Creeting (St. Olave) Debden Deerhurst Dunwich Ecclesfield Edith Weston Ellingham Everdon Eye Folkestone Frampton Goldcliff Grovebury Hamble Harmondsworth Hatfield Regis Haugham Hayling Headley Hinckley Holbeck Horsham St Faith Horsley Lancaster Lapley Lewisham Isleham Livers Ocle Llangennith Llangua Loders Minster Minster Lovell Minting Modbury Monks Kirby Monk Sherborne (Pamber) Monmouth Newent Ogbourne Otterton Panfield Pembroke Pill Ruislip Runcton St Cross St Dogmells St Michael's Mount St Neots Sele Spalding Sporle Standon Steventon Stogursey Stoke-by-Clare Stratfield Saye Swavesey Takeley Throwley Tickford Titley Toft Monks Totnes Tutbury Tywardreath Upavon Ware Wareham Warminghurst Warmington Wath Weedon Beck Weedon Lois West Mersea Wilsford Wing Winghale Wolston Wootton Wawen York (Holy Trinity) [51°34′44″N 1°09′32″W / 51.5788°N 1.1590°W / 51.5788; -1.1590](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Cholsey_Abbey¶ms=51.5788_N_1.159_W_type:landmark_region:GB) This article about a British Christian monastery, abbey, priory or other religious house is a stub. 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