Adeliza of Barking

The chapel of the hospital founded by Adelidis in Ilford (2007)

Adeliza of Barking (also Adelidis or Adelaide of Barking ; † around 1173) was an abbess of Barking Abbey in England .

Adeliza was a daughter of the Norman knight John Fitz Richard . Between 1136 and 1138, she was appointed abbess of the Barking nunnery by King Stephen of Blois , which was presumably the king's thanks to her brothers Pain and Eustace FitzJohn , who had agreed to his controversial accession to the throne. Little is known about their life. Around 1145 she founded St Mary’s Hospital in Ilford . The monk and future abbot of Westminster Abbey , Osbert of Clare , who visited his nieces Margaret and Cecilia at Barking Abbey in the mid-1150s, praised their chastity. However, she was also involved in a conflict with Archbishop Theobald of Canterbury , probably over a dispute over a tithe , which the priest Roger of Ingatestone also claimed. She was succeeded by Mary, a sister of Archbishop Thomas Becket .

Web links

epistolae: Adelidis of Barking

Individual evidence

^ Ilford Hospital Chapel: History. Archived from the original on February 3, 2015 ; accessed on July 12, 2019 .
^ British History Online: Houses of Benedictine nuns. Abbey of Barking. Retrieved April 7, 2015 .

personal data
SURNAME	Adeliza of Barking
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Adelidis of Barking; Adelaide of Barking
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English abbess
DATE OF BIRTH	12th Century
DATE OF DEATH	around 1173
Place of death	Barking Abbey

[1] Ilford Hospital Chapel: History. Archived from the original on February 3, 2015 ; accessed on July 12, 2019 .

[2] British History Online: Houses of Benedictine nuns. Abbey of Barking. Retrieved April 7, 2015 .