Could it be in Normandy?
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From: "Horovitz David" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 9:41 AM
Subject: Re: [EPNL] belresort
> John is correct. There was a shortlived Cistercian abbey at Radmore,
founded
> c.1143, transferred to Stoneleigh in Warwickshire c.1154 (VCH Staffs III
> 225), so before 'late 12th/early 13th century', and never, I believe,
> recorded as Beaudesert (or any variant). The spellings for Beaudesert in
> Warwickshire show many forms with Bel-, a variation unrecorded for
> Beaudesert in Staffs. Which tends to bring us back to Warks - but still no
> abbey.
>
> David Horovitz
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Freeman [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 04 July 2003 20:44
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [EPNL] belresort
>
>
> > In a late twelfth-/early thirteenth-century charter which deals with the
> > settlement of a dispute about the tithes of Wolverton (Warwicks) the
> > two adjudicators are referred to as the abbots 'de Evesham et de
> > belresort'. I don't recognise 'belresort' and would be most grateful if
> > any member could suggest an identification of this place.
>
> Could this be a form of Beaudesert (Warwicks or Staffs)? PNWarwicks
> 199 gives forms "Beltesert" 1291 and "Belteserd" 1282. I wonder if
> "Belresort" is a misreading of the former. Was there an abbey at either
> place? Possibly at the Staffs place, since an 1834 gazetteer says: "About
> three miles NE of Cannock village, is the Marquis of Anglesey's beautiful
> seat, Beaudesert Park, one moiety of which is in the liberty of Cannock
> Wood, in this parish, and contains the vestiges of an extensive British
> encampment, a little to the south of which is Radmoor, where there are
some
> remains of an Abbey of Cistercian monks..." But David Horovitz is the man
> to confirm or deny this.
>
> John Freeman
>
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