Alma Mater
Run 3: 26th-29th March 2026
1536
Now
Frances' profession
Mary joins as postulant
Visitations of abbeys across England
1535
1 year ago
Joan survives an illness
Blanche transfers from Syon Abbey
Katherine becomes a novice
Parliament orders all small religious houses dissolved.
Executions of several for denial of King's supremacy.
1534
2 years ago
Oath of Supremacy taken by Abbess on behalf of all.
Letty becomes a novice.
Act of Supremacy passes
1533
3 years ago
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King's marriage with Katherine annulled
King marries Anne Boleyn
Cromwell becomes Lord Chancellor
1531
5 years ago
Juliana's profession
Isabel's profession
Blanche's profession (at Syon Abbey)
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1530
6 years ago
Ursula's profession
Death of Cardinal Wolsey
1529
7 years ago
A book of Margery's prophecies is censured
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1528
8 years ago
Benedicta's profession
Agnes transfers from Grantham Abbey
Bishop conducts a visitation: Omnia bene
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1527
9 years ago
A book of Margery's prophecies is published
King Henry VIII first appeals to the Pope to end his marriage to Katherine.
1526
10 years ago
Ellen's profession
Abbess Henrietta dies
Joan is elected Abbess
Maud is made Prioress
Bess is made Novice Mistress
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1523
13 years ago
Edith returns
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1520
16 years ago
Clemence's profession
Field of the Cloth of Gold
1518
18 years ago
Edith runs away from Whitwood
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1517
19 years ago
Phillippa's profession
Marthin Luther publishes the 95 Theses
1516
20 years ago
Bess' profession
Margery's profession
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1515
21 years ago
Maud's profession
Alice's profession
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1514
22 years ago
Sybil's profession
Agnes' profession at Grantham Abbey
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1512
24 years ago
Joan is made Novice Mistress
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1510
26 years ago
Henrietta is made Abbess
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1509
27 years ago
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Henry VIII accedes to the throne and marries Katherine of Aragon
1508
28 years ago
Edith's profession
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1506
30 years ago
Dorothy's profession
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1504
32 years ago
Joan's profession
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1501
35 years ago
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Prince Arthur marries Katherine of Aragon and then dies
1494
42 years ago
Peggy's profession
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1485
53 years ago
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Battle of Bosworth. Henry VII accedes to the throne